[78-L] Styrofoam "peanuts"

[Cary Ginell]

I save my Acorns. That's a newspaper I do theater and concert reviews for. (www.theacornonline.com)
 
Cary Ginell
 

> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:35:45 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Styrofoam "peanuts"
> 
> 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.
> 
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