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If you are an environmentally conscious person, you may have debated whether or not to use packaging peanuts when sending a package. Although these items are usually not biodegradable, they are not all bad. In fact, packaging peanuts can be re-used and recycled.

Some of the things that you can do to recycle packaging peanuts include:

• Check locally – Before seeking out a national organization for help, remember that you very well may be able to find the help you need locally. You can call the department of public works to determine what kinds of things your county or city might recycle.

• Check twice – Just because your packaging peanuts look to be made of plastic, this does not mean that they absolutely are. In fact, there are quite a few packaging peanuts now that are made from a vegetable derivative that fairly closely resembles normal packaging peanuts. Throw a couple in a bucket of water and see what happens. If they disintegrate, this means that they are made from a vegetable matter.

• Give them to somebody – Often you can simply place the packaging peanuts you have into trash bags and donate them to a shipping/receiving store. They usually will accept them as long as they are dry and white.

• Call the Plastic Loose Fill Council and find out abut their peanut hotline (no this is not a joke). The peanut hotline will let you know which places will accept recycled packaging peanuts.

• You can also use online classifieds to post items like packaging peanuts that you will want to give away. Somebody who is moving or shipping something fragile is probably checking these classifieds often to find packaging peanuts at a cheap price or at no cost.

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