This came up in conversation last night:<\/p>\n
Not sure what to do with those styrofoam packing peanuts? Well, technically they're known as \"loose fill,\" and the Plastic Loose Fill Council<\/a> provides a Peanut Hotline (800-828-2214) that you can call from anywhere in the US to find a collection site near you. \"There are over 1,500 collection sites in the US.\"<\/p>\n If you want to reuse them in your home, Heloise provides hints on \"What to Do with Leftover Packing Peanuts<\/a>.\" For example: \"Sprinkle the peanuts in the bottom of pots to provide drainage for your houseplants.\"<\/p>\n Of course, you can also do science experiments on them. For example, you can dissolve them in acetone<\/a>, and possibly make the resulting mixture foam up and solidify.<\/p>\n Finally, if you're using the starch packing peanuts (such as ECO-FOAM<\/a>) rather than the polystyrene ones, you can wet the ends and stick them together to build toy structures<\/a>. (Scroll down to the \"Magic Noodles\" section.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This came up in conversation last night: Not sure what to do with those styrofoam packing peanuts? Well, technically they’re…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}