I am getting fairly regular delivery of frozen food in polystyrene boxes. These are too large to fit in the rubbish bin. Cutting them up makes a mess of beads everywhere. Anyone an neat and tidy solution? I do not want the longish strip to the waste disposal site on a fairly frequent basis.
Anything that dissolves polystyrene. Acetone, for example.
Buy or make yourself a hot wire cutter much cleaner way of cutting large pieces of polystyrene into smaller baggable pieces.
Richard
if its expanded polystyrene, treat with cellulose thinners.
Convert to napalm.
I thought they were banned these days??
In message , Broadback writes
Make hot wire cutter? it will cut it up cleanly.
Easy to make. I bodged one together from a bit of nichrome wire (ebay) a spare 12V lighting transformer and some odd bits of wood - in a H frame configuration, tensioning the wire with a spanish windlass
stack up in the loft as additional insulation?
what then?
NT
And void your fire insurance?
The fumes are carcinogenic.
Bill
They will take up less space, will be a more bin friendly size, and may then well fit in the bin (the OP implies that cutting up would help, but ti would make a mess)
So are bacon sandwiches.
Yes but they are essential. Bill
Petrol dissolves polystyrene into a goo. You then still have the option to pyro it :)
Give them back to the delivery driver at his next visit, with some pious remark about his company's commitment to reducing waste.
Broadback scribbled
Put them out on a windy night and suddenly they are someone else's problem.
Um, stop buying food distributed in such an environmentally unfriendly way?
Tim
You would have thought that putting the product in a vacuum pack and burying in cornstarch packing peanuts (compostable) would have done just as well, from an insulating point of view.
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