Re: [Amc-list] OT: Foam recycling

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

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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