Re: [Amc-list] OT: Foam recycling

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might want to go green on this issue and write to
the manufacturers of the equipment and urge them NOT
to use styrofoam.  Or go to their websites and
complain.  Many OEMs are switching to paper/fiber
packaging and other more eco-friendly methods.  It
won't help this time, but they need to hear you.

Joe Fulton

--- Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> We have trash pickup.
> We are only allowed 2 bags a week.
> 6 bags of styrofoam will take me about 6 weeks to
> get rid of, since we also have a bag or so of
> household trash.
> 
> --
> Mark Price
> Morgantown, WV
> 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
> " Chronic Pain Hurts"
> 
>  -------------- Original message
> ----------------------
> From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > You don't have trash pickup?  If you're out in the
> > country without trash pickup just burn it.  Don't
> > bother with the solvents.
> > 
> > We get a lot of it at work and that and
> polyehtyelene
> > foam are the only things we have to throw in the
> > trash.  We can recycle just about all other
> plastics. 
> > Unless you are in a big metro area there is no way
> to
> > get styrofoam recycled.  Even in Los Angeles,
> > recycling styrofoam in only just now catching on. 
> You
> > have to reduce the volume (with a special
> compactor)
> > to make it economical to haul.  There aren't many
> of
> > those compactors around yet.
> > 
> > Joe Fulton
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > The wifey and I bought some of that "high
> dollar"
> > > put it together yourself furniture, plus I
> bought a
> > > Onkyo SR800 home theatre system.
> > >    So, I swear they spent more on packing the
> > > tsuffin styrofoam then the actual furniture and
> > > stereo costs!!!
> > > I spent the I while todya stomping those cast
> pieces
> > > to bits to stuff in a garbage bag. I now have
> about
> > > 6 bags full of broken up styrofoam. I can only
> find
> > > one place that recycles it and that is below
> > > Baltimore, to far to drive. I'm not spending
> more
> > > money to get rid of this stuff.
> > >    I searched online and the only real idea I
> came
> > > up with is to disolve it in acetone, thinner or
> > > gasoline. None of which seem like great ideas,
> but
> > > it sure would debulk the stuff!
> > >    Does anyone else have any ideas, short of
> just
> > > burning it !
> > > Yeah I know if I thin it to a gel with gasoline
> it
> > > makes a sort of homeade napalm!!!
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Mark Price
> > > Morgantown, WV
> > > 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> > > 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
> > > " Chronic Pain Hurts"
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