Styrofoam packaging

[PassnThru]

It's trash night - I have lots of Styrofoam packing pieces from some flat pack cabinets I bought last weekend. Some are in sheets - looks about 5/16 thick in various sizes. Also some thicker pieces in long narrow sizes. I can usually find some other purpose for most anything - but I'm drawing a blank on these. Anyone found a use for this sort of thing? Otherwise - going in the trash tonight.

 

[jake00]

sell stuff on ebay? use as packing

 

[Jack Olsen]

Styrofoam is a lousy sound insulator. I tried it for that. It's okay for putting between furniture when you're moving it.

 

[PassnThru]

Styrofoam is a lousy sound insulator. I tried it for that. It's okay for putting between furniture when you're moving it.

I thought about that but don't have any need currently for sound insulation. I keep cardboard around for using as buffers when hauling or moving things. I have tossed all that I could get in my garbage can out at this point. Just a few pieces left for next week. I'm the type that disassembles things before I throw them away to salvage screws and brackets and anything else that looks like there might be a .001 percent chance that I might use it in the next 100 years. Couldn't just throw it out without thinking about it.

 

[BackAgain]

Don't try to use it for any type of "permanently installed" insulation. The kind of foam you buy at home depot for the same purposes is fire retardant, regular shipping foam isn't. It's not just that it's flammable, but the gasses it releases are horribly poisonous...

 

[D.J.]

PassnThru I thought I was the only one who disassembled every thing befor throwing away for the screws and brackets etc. Now I know I'm not the only one who does it. Thanks D.J.
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[PistolWhip]

Styrofoam is my nemessis, I hate that stuff! The worst are those dam goast turds that they put in shipping boxes, the little peanut looking ones. You know, the one's that get all over the place the very second you open the box, somehow completely defying the laws of physics, disregarding gravity as if they were alien space craft and then they stick to your hands like a boogy, completely refusing to be easily thrown away.... GRRRRRRRR

Anyway, just throw that **** out. LOL

 

[MrJimmo]

Clean up.

 

[Boyd Who]

LOL. Yup. Static cling gives that stuff a mind of it's own

They're great fun if you have a dog or cat!

 

[Mr_fixit]

I hate the styro peanuts, too. It's my mission to mail it to others just to get rid of it. It seems like no matter what I sell , people keep sending it to me faster that I can get rid of it. That means it's time to sell morte stuff on ebay!

 

[TA^Guy]

I have used it in the past to keep things from moving around inside of cases. Like a paint gun in a case it wasn't made for, etc. Lay the foam out in the case or box, trace your item, then cut it out. Keep parts from sliding around in to each other, etc.

 

[wfopete]

If you throw it away within 24 hours you will find a use for it.

As a last resort, box it up and send it to someone for a Christmas present (dirty Santa).

 

[VC455]

I have used it in the past to keep things from moving around inside of cases. Like a paint gun in a case it wasn't made for, etc. Lay the foam out in the case or box, trace your item, then cut it out. Keep parts from sliding around in to each other, etc.

+1 Now this is a great idea!

I've done similar with blow molded cases, cut out the blow molded inside that fit the original (failed/discarded) items and re-cycled the case with the above foam interior for a new custom fit.

 

[nate379]

Not so much when the dog thinks they are doggie treats

They're great fun if you have a dog or cat!

 

[PCO6]

Here, and I suspect in many other jurisdictions, styrofoam is classified as "garbage" and is not to be put out with the recyclables. We have a 3 garbage bag limit every 2 weeks. Any amount of recyclables can go out every week. It's common to put out a very large and very light bag of styrofoam every now and then, especially after Christmas. It drives me nuts to think that styrofoam can't be recycled. I break it down as best I can to get as much as I can into the bag. I think the guy who invents a "styrofoam shredder" will be on to something.

 

[fusionspecialists]

Lay on it when you're working under your car. It provides padding and insulation with a few more inches of clearance compared to a creeper. You can't weld while using it though.

 

[PassnThru]

PassnThru I thought I was the only one who disassembled every thing befor throwing away for the screws and brackets etc. Now I know I'm not the only one who does it. Thanks D.J.

We should start a support group! Not for us of course, but for all those people who don't.

I have used it in the past to keep things from moving around inside of cases. Like a paint gun in a case it wasn't made for, etc. Lay the foam out in the case or box, trace your item, then cut it out. Keep parts from sliding around in to each other, etc.

Now there's an idea. Of course, I threw the bulk of it away last night. Maybe I should wrap the kids in it and save on band aids

 

[lawfarm]

Huh...around here, styrofoam is 100% recyclable, in all of its various forms.d