Most stuff these days seems to be delivered in boxes packed using the "bag of air" as the padding of choice... however from time to time I still get things packed with low density polystyrene peanuts. These things are a PITA.
Anyone have any inventive ways for getting shot of these things, or finding a use for them?
Find somebody who does Ebay and has lots of packing to do?
Melt them in trichloroethane and make aeroplane glue!
I'll get me coat.
Si
for a while we were getting biodegradable ones made from starch - at least I think they were - they weren't very tasty though :-(
ISTR at one time pop(ped) corn was actually used by one of the computer giants
Use them to stuff a home made beanbag?
I stick them in rubbish sacks and keep them for re-use. Of course, if you rarely post things not much point. But I'm often in a negative situation with them. ;-)
Na, too soft, if you squash one it stays squashed... just a bit tedious squashing lots of them for disposal!
So what you are saying is I should stick your address and a stamp on a bin bag full of them? ;-)
"John Rumm" wrote | Keith Oliver wrote: | > Use them to stuff a home made beanbag? | Na, too soft, if you squash one it stays squashed... just a | bit tedious squashing lots of them for disposal!
And also a fire hazard?
Owain
No, I'll take them off your hands. I never have enough ... I'll pay for the stamp even.
Mary
"John Rumm" wrote | Anyone have any inventive ways for getting shot of these things, or | finding a use for them?
Donate to local primary school for paint-and-glue sessions[1] or use as bran tub.
Mix into greenhouse compost to keep plant roots warm.
Owain
[1] In my day it was paint and glue, nowadays the P1s are probably all on glue and the P4s are all into horse and I don't mean My Little Pony.
I usually have to buy big bags of filling, although what we buy is based on maize, rather than polystyrene. Any coming in simply gets tipped into a big box and reused.
Colin Bignell
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Also, 'proper' beanbag fill does have some sort of fire retardant.
Heh heh - thanks. But at the moment I'm not dealing much on Ebay so stocks are adequate. In the future very likely. So Mary's needs are greater than mine.;-)
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Most businesses do that. There's a very large and complicated international trade in this stuff. Uninvoiced, of course, and incidental to the goods actually packed in it.
Give them to the local toddler's group to make greeting cards from.
;-) was just informed by SWMBO, that there is a notice on the wall in the village hall asking for donations of "interesting" things for "sticking to paper exercises" for the mini sprogs... Looks like I can send ours along with a bag of simmilar volume to the sprog!
Flush 'em down the toilet.
Apart from not being convinced that is a "good idea", the thought occurs to me, that the blighters would be very resistant to flushing!
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