How to Recycle Starch-Packed Peanuts
Packing peanuts, also known as foam peanuts, are widely used by package shipping companies and businesses who manufacture and deliver their own products. Packing peanuts cushion and keep objects from moving around in the shipping box or container. Ultimately, this material helps prevent damages to fragile items during the shipping process. Unlike the polystyrene foam peanuts, the starch-based peanuts are 100 percent biodegradable and nontoxic, as they are made of corn starch or grain sorghum. Starch packing peanuts aren't harmful to the environment and recycling them is a simple process.
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Place the starch packing peanuts in a box or container.
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Take the starch peanuts to the compost bin used at your business or home. The compost bin is the green bin where you would usually put organic matter such as leaves, produce cuttings and garden clippings.
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Insert the starch packing peanut in the bin for recycling (just the starch peanuts). Because starch-based peanuts are 100 percent biodegradable, putting them in the compost bin is acceptable.
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Tips & Warnings
You can also recycle starch-based peanuts by reusing them for your packaging needs or offering to other small businesses that may reuse them.
Another way to dispose of starch-based peanuts is to put them in a bucket with water and let them dissolve. Thereafter you can dump the water in the sink for disposal.
If you have plastic-based peanuts The Loose Fill Packaging website helps you find drop-off locations for recycling. However, this is only for plastic peanuts because they are not biodegradable.
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