Peanuts Peanuts and more Peanuts!

Do you order things online and have them shipped to you? If you do, you’re probably constantly throwing away all of those clingy packaging peanuts. If the peanuts you are throwing away are white or pink, they are made from seventy percent raw material, whereas green ones are seventy percent recycled material.

All of these can be used in an abundance of ways rather than throwing them away.

*There are many recycling centers that are now accepting them.

*You can also drop them off at pretty much any mail center as they reuse them.

*If you have a green thumb, you can use packing peanuts instead of rocks at the bottom of your pots for drainage.

*Using an ice chest and need to keep it cool as long as possible? Put some bags with packing peanuts inside into the ice chest. Make sure the bags are well sealed otherwise you will be picking packing peanuts out of your ice and food.

*Making your own Halloween costume? Need padding? Packing peanuts make great padding for costumes because they are light weight. Just make sure they are completely contained or you will be playing Johnny Appleseed with packing peanuts.

If you just plain detest packing peanuts, when you order things, request that the sender use some other material that is more environmentally friendly, this will solve all your problems before they even occur.