What to do with old pallet wrap?
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mike93lx
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Plastic films/bags are hard to recycle, but there are companies out there that do it
Walkers
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Make and market condoms made from 100% recycled material!
bwringer
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It depends on where you are; there may or may not be a reasonably local company doing plastics recycling that can do something with it.
For example, this is a company here in Indianapolis:
www.plastic-recycling.net
At the consumer level, curbside recycling is pretty uneven around here, but there are dropoff options for plastics and other recyclables.
If there is, then you'll need to make sure it stays clean (no cardboard or paper) and dry and either transport it or make arrangements to have it picked up.
It may take a bit of added effort, but it's definitely worth trying to keep this stuff out of landfills.
For example, this is a company here in Indianapolis:
Home -
lastic Recycling, Inc. (PRI), established in 1988, is a world-wide leader that produces polypropylene, polyethylene and styrenics resin compou
www.plastic-recycling.net
If there is, then you'll need to make sure it stays clean (no cardboard or paper) and dry and either transport it or make arrangements to have it picked up.
It may take a bit of added effort, but it's definitely worth trying to keep this stuff out of landfills.
cherokee
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I have used it under things I paint, but never anything real big.
Plastic does not recycle very well at all, and the types that can are very few. IIRC China stopped doing it as it was not cost effective. That should tell you something right there.
Plastic does not recycle very well at all, and the types that can are very few. IIRC China stopped doing it as it was not cost effective. That should tell you something right there.
rattle_snake
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makes decent archery target stuffing
Mick56
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We have wrapped the happy couples' car at their wedding reception.
Youngandfree
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Burn it
Meursault74
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seems a better option than this.
Police seize 345,000 used condoms that were cleaned and sold as new | CNN
Police in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new, state media reported.
www.cnn.com
Please don't do that unless you have a high-temperature incinerator. Or you like to subject those downwind of you to all the toxic byproducts of incomplete combustion.
Walkers
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Yuck!seems a better option than this.
Police seize 345,000 used condoms that were cleaned and sold as new | CNN
Police in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new, state media reported.
dutchgray
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Return to atmosphere recycling system.
gahrajmahal
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We have much smaller volumes and we can recycle it with our plastic shopping bags at the grocery store.
We also have a recycling resource that takes potato chip foil bags and any non-stretchy plastic. White styrofoam packing, foam food containers, tooth brushes, old gym shoes and loads of hard to recycle stuff. They are only opened a few times a month, so we have to make a special trip.
We also have a recycling resource that takes potato chip foil bags and any non-stretchy plastic. White styrofoam packing, foam food containers, tooth brushes, old gym shoes and loads of hard to recycle stuff. They are only opened a few times a month, so we have to make a special trip.
kaymccampbell
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Roll it up in big bundles and make yourself "beanbag" furniture for the break room. You could also bundle it up into a huge nest, to hide in and read, instead of working.
jblnut
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It gets run through the stove here and heats my shop and house. Mixed in a little at a time this **** along with two bales worth of netwrap each day and it doesn't smoke any more than wood alone. Seems bonkers but it burns just fine with no apparent stink or smoke. I don't fill the stove up by any means and make sure it's sandwiched under some wood.
So it's recycled into hot water and warm buildings around here. Probably only a couple 55gal barrels a year for volume so not that much.
The place I used to work had a shredder that they'd shread all the incoming stuff into approximately 1x6" pieces and use it as packing material. It worked very well for them and saved huge on dumpster fees for the ****. They used to fill a 10yd rolloff A WEEK with wrap alone. Now it gets sent to someone else to deal with so they can likely throw it away instead.
So it's recycled into hot water and warm buildings around here. Probably only a couple 55gal barrels a year for volume so not that much.
The place I used to work had a shredder that they'd shread all the incoming stuff into approximately 1x6" pieces and use it as packing material. It worked very well for them and saved huge on dumpster fees for the ****. They used to fill a 10yd rolloff A WEEK with wrap alone. Now it gets sent to someone else to deal with so they can likely throw it away instead.
Viper98912
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In regards to pallets, there's someone near here (way outside of town) where he got a bunch of used pallets and built himself a fence out of standing up the pallets, all around his ~2 acre property. He even flipped every other pallet, vertical, horizontal, etc.
ZRX61
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They do that at LA homeless camps.
This is more like I had in mind!
This isn't! I've seen this done, and unless the car is spotless, the wrap will drag any dirt across the paint causing scratches.
Don't get me wrong, it was funny at first sight, and I didn't like the guy on the receiving end, but still...
yatg
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body disposal