disposal of polystyrene

Make napalm.

I think you missed the word "safely" there ! :-)

Smash it up and flush it down the toilet..

But dip it in brown paint first, so that when it floats in the loo, it doesn't look so bad.

Take it out of the box and leave it in the shop.

Mary

Have you asked your council if they have a recycling facility that will take EPS?

Doesn't work too well for mail order though.

Send it back then. No problem.

Mary

Costs money.

put their address on the back of the parcel as sender, a random address on the front and leave it at the sorting office collections counter. it will be considered an orphan and some dim postie will pop it into the system.

RT

Depends who for:-)

Devious :-)

Just make sure you have "private drainage" and you never empty it .......

LOL

I am not advocating this, but...

With a large enough amount of chickens, eventually they will eat it all.

I had about 20 or so near my house and they "cleaned" the back of some waste EPS insulated wall board which was in my front garden for a few months. I mentioned this to the owner, when they started at it. He was quite unperturbed and just said "oh they eat anything".

They did not seem to suffer any adverse effects BTW and were eventually seen off by foxes about a year later.

Alex.

'Free' wasn't in the spec.

Mary

They won't eat anything - but they WILL eat expanded polystyrene. It doesn't seem to affect them at all, I reckon there must be something in it which is attractive to them. I once saw one of ours with an enormous piece in her beak, being chased by another and not being able to get through the gap she wanted!

Mary

Hmmm, I think we've found the source of meat for KFC, well, at least that chicken tastes of EPS.

Mike

Thank you for all your answers, they were well worth reading for the entertainment value. As there was no practical answer I assume there is no practical solution.

I think there was one sensible suggestion - to ask the council about recycling it or any other approved methods of disposal.

Only ways I can think are noxious - burning or dissolving. Neither are likely to be legal.

I can see this becoming a major ball-ache for a number of us, we've just moved to 2-weekly pickups and the bins are overflowing at the end of the 2 weeks without large-volume items like polystyrene.

Mike.