Bubble wrap and shipping peanuts
Bubble wrap and shipping peanuts
Once there was a time when shipping a fragile item involved bits of cardboard, newspaper, and tissue paper, in addition to tape and a box.
But no more! Now there are the plastic wonders of bubble wrap and shipping peanuts.
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But no more! Now there are the plastic wonders of bubble wrap and shipping peanuts.
(Where could a thread like this go?)
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Re: Bubble wrap and shipping peanuts
Yes, but what do you ship those in?Cork wrote:But no more! Now there are the plastic wonders of bubble wrap and shipping peanuts.
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A black plastic garbage bag. At least once a month a customer on my route gets one of these- the garbage bag is covered in clear tape too. I asked the lady what on earth is this once when I delivered one and she laughed and said- bubble wrap for packing. She sells a lot on e-bay.Yes, but what do you ship those in?
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One of the coolest ideas I ever saw was, instead of using Styrofoam peanuts to pack stuff in, pop up some popcorn and use that instead. It's more environmentally friendly than Styrofoam, and if the parcel hasn't been too long in transit, the receiver can eat the packaging - no waste to the landfill.
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I work at a packaging company that sells boxes and peanuts, etc. A few weeks ago, some young kids came in to purchase a couple of industrial-sized bags of peanuts. Apparently they were going to use it to fill a friend's car with peanuts - floor to roof. They were performing various hijinks on each other as part of some prank war.
The company I buy my sprouting tools and seeds from ships it packed in shipping peanuts made out of a corn product instead of plastic.
Instead of disposing of them in the garbage pail I put them in the yard and hosed them with water until they dissolved.
The company I bought my worms from (for my vermiculture) double packed the box of worms inside another box with shredded newspaper as an impact insulator.
The shredded newspaper went right into the vermiculture with the worms. If my vermiculture was bigger I might have shredded the boxes and put them in there too.
Instead of disposing of them in the garbage pail I put them in the yard and hosed them with water until they dissolved.
The company I bought my worms from (for my vermiculture) double packed the box of worms inside another box with shredded newspaper as an impact insulator.
The shredded newspaper went right into the vermiculture with the worms. If my vermiculture was bigger I might have shredded the boxes and put them in there too.
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Personally, I've gotten very fond of the cute little bags of air.
Peanuts are too prone to static issues.
Popcorn....I have a problem with using food as packaging and corn products are getting expensive anyway.
I reuse all the bubblewrap and peanuts and air bladders that come into the shop, then move onto newspaper.
Peanuts are too prone to static issues.
Popcorn....I have a problem with using food as packaging and corn products are getting expensive anyway.
I reuse all the bubblewrap and peanuts and air bladders that come into the shop, then move onto newspaper.
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Peanuts are regularly available in the anti-static (pink) variety (same thing with bubble wrap, etc.). As someone mentioned earlier, another common variety of peanuts is made from corn starch which are biodegradable. I think they are even slightly cheaper than the regular polystyrene peanuts (oil is more expensive then corn in packaging). The only downside to corn starch peanuts is that they are softer than polystyrene peanuts so I wouldn't use them with heavy items.Tyghress wrote:Personally, I've gotten very fond of the cute little bags of air.
Peanuts are too prone to static issues.
Popcorn....I have a problem with using food as packaging and corn products are getting expensive anyway.
I reuse all the bubblewrap and peanuts and air bladders that come into the shop, then move onto newspaper.
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This makes me want to pop some Bubble wrap.
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Darn! You beat me to it! I wanted to post that!I.D.10-t wrote:This makes me want to pop some Bubble wrap.
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