11 Nov
2004
11 Nov
'04
6:24 a.m.
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Joe R. wrote:
Styrrofoam peanuts definitely won't do.
You're being awfully nice :-)
Styrofoam "peanuts" are like a cosmic conspiracy or
something. Except for a few wimpy, trivial packing jobs where
any number of alternative materials/methods would work, they're
useless. Plus, it's expanded plastic for sh*t's sake, and gets
all over the place, makes for terrible landfill, toxic when
burned, aesthetically irritating at best, and they crumble
into everything.
I used to save them, along with bubble wrap, expanded paper,
boxes etc, for re-use but no longer, directly into recycling
they go. I know about the idea of re-use but they degrade the
objects they pack as they get "re used".
The cornstarch based ones appear to be less horrid, but are
equally useless.