[78-L] Styrofoam "peanuts"

[Michael Biel]

From: "neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com" <neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com>
> I keep all the peanuts I receive for re-use. I appreciate the money that 
> this saves me.   joe salerno

Do you also save all your acorns?  Not everybody has a use to re-use
them.  In the meantime that is another thing filling up needed space
around the house.  They fly all over the place when you try to get them
out of the bag, and the crushed pieces get onto everything.  Vacuuming
them fills up your cleaner's bag quickly.  I get them into a bag and out
to a nearby shipping place next time I pass by it.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

On 12/15/2011 4:22 PM, Paul Christenzen wrote:
> There's nothing wrong with crumpled newspaper if you're only shipping
> one box - which is all YOU'RE getting.
>
> But if you're shipping 15-20 boxes it's a lot quicker/cleaner to use
> peanuts.
>
> And as long as they're out there, why not use them - why throw them in a
> landfill?
>
> Next mission: clean all that dirt/sand off the ocean beaches....
>
> Doug Pomeroy wrote:
>> For years I have been bagging the "peanuts" and donating them
>> to a local shipping store, where they are welcomed.
>>
>> But, I so hate the usual "peanuts" that I am now refusing to accept
>> any package which includes them. Is there any more insidious,
>> diabolical invention in the history of mankind? I never heard
>> there was a bio-degradable version. But what in the world is
>> wrong with crumpled newspaper?
>>
>> It's such a telling development: we create trash in order to
>> dispose of trash; think of all the plastic bags we Americans
>> buy to put our garbage in. (I finally gave up home delivery of
>> the NY Times because they delivered it every day, rain or shine,
>> in a non-recyclable, blue plastic bag. When I requested they
>> deliver the paper without any bag, the delivery guy would
>> take off the bag and throw it on the sidewalk in front of
>> my house!)
>>
>> Doug Pomeroy
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Michael Valentiner<michael.valentiner at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I like the corn starch peanuts ULine sells. Bio-degradable, dissolve
>>> in water, and they don't pick up a static charge and go flying
>>> everywhere on there own when I open the box/bag.