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Packing peanut hotline
Areawide. Keep foam packing peanuts out of landfills by using the Plastic Loose Fill Council's Peanut Hotline, 800-828-2214.
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Oh-h-h say, can you see ... that your middle-school-age kids actually can be pulled away from their video games and cell phones? As you prepare for a Fourth of July celebration with family and friends, give the kids some hands-on, creative fun outdoors. Challenge them to think "patriotic" and put them in charge of sculpting and painting table decorations with a stars-and-stripes motif.
All you need is lots of white packing foam from a new computer, DVD player, toaster, TV, etc., wooden kebab skewers, toothpicks, household glue, non-toxic red and blue tempera or acrylic paint, paintbrushes, markers and serrated bread knives.
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DAYTON -- Watch where you step if you're visiting the Dayton Art Institute in the next few days. The place looks like a construction site.
Galleries are filled with huge wooden boxes, gantry cranes, chain pulleys, wood scraps, chunks of drywall, half-constructed exhibit cases, tools, plastic paint buckets and pieces of packing foam. Electrical cords snake through hallways.
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Through July, the Skyway space presents a strong group of 10 pieces by [Joshua Nase]. He seems to deploy a "kitchen-sink strategy" in creating his abstractions, and that includes the use of recycled materials. Nase's most unusual recycling tactic involves his choice of painting surfaces. Varieties of "salvaged foam," like the stuff used for packing material and insulation, are among his preferred painting supports. Nase's large-scale "Triumphant Rejuvenation I & II" works were executed in airbrush on roughly 48-by-60-inch vertical sheets of foam.
Another exhibition occupies a space near Gates 1 and 2. Memphis Barbree's photojournalistic journey, entitled "Tibet in Exile," comprises 10 16-by-20-inch color photos taken at Dharmsala, India, the Dalai Lama's seat of government in exile....
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The last of a regular series of block foam collection events will be at Clark College on Saturday, but recycling-minded Clark County residents will have several opportunities to safely pitch their junk.
The last block foam collection event, in January, drew more than 500 area residents toting block foam and packing peanuts to be recycled. Washington residents should bring their block foam to the "Purple 1" parking lot next to the tennis courts on the west side of 1933 Fort Vancouver Way between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
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...That assembly was surrounded by foam packing chips. Lining the inside of the box were l...
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Q: Where in Evansville can I recycle Styrofoam packing peanuts?
A: According to the Vanderburgh County Solid Waste District Web site at www.evansvillegov.org/Index.aspx?page=355, A Package Deal, A.K. Pack & Ship, Box Shoppe and Goodwill Industries in Evansville accept clean Styrofoam packing peanuts as well as foam wrap and bubble wrap. (I'm not sure how much use bubble wrap is to anyone once all those little bubbles are popped, yet who can resist?) Scroll down to the bottom of the Web site for addresses and phone numbers for these businesses and organizations.
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... (``Fuwei Films''), Shaoxing Xiangyu Green Packing Co., Ltd. (``Green Packing''), and Tianjin Wanhua ... materials (i.e., pallets, lateral board, PE foam, paper pipe, stretch film, packing tape, plastic c...
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Moving is one of life's biggest headaches. Sell the house. Buy another. Find a new school for the children. Establish ties to unfamiliar doctors, dentists and sundry specialists. That doesn't count packing every precious item one has in cardboard boxes better suited for hauling plastic-foam peanuts.
Moving out of state can be even more taxing, but there are ways to make such major moves less painful.
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Styrofoam, the brand name for polystyrene foam, is more quickly associated with insulation, packing material and disposable coffee cups.
But that very same Styrofoam will help take Pioneer Theater patrons on a journey to the city of art and romance -- Florence, Italy.