Pink peanuts?
September 26, 2006 2:36 PM Subscribe
Styrofoam packing peanuts - why pink?
A few days ago my girlfriend got a package filled with those styrofoam packing peanuts. All of the peanuts were pink, and I've also seen them in other colors.
I assume they were dyed - but why would somebody bother to dye them? Or bleach them, in the case of white peanuts, for that matter?
A few days ago my girlfriend got a package filled with those styrofoam packing peanuts. All of the peanuts were pink, and I've also seen them in other colors.
I assume they were dyed - but why would somebody bother to dye them? Or bleach them, in the case of white peanuts, for that matter?
I always assumed that they were made of recycled Other Stuff, and thus assumed the colour of whatever they were made from.
Fun fact: Biodegradable packing peanuts (you can tell - they're the type that don't pick up a static charge) are edible!
(But don't eat the static-y kind. That would be bad.)
posted by Mwongozi at 2:52 PM on September 26, 2006
Fun fact: Biodegradable packing peanuts (you can tell - they're the type that don't pick up a static charge) are edible!
(But don't eat the static-y kind. That would be bad.)
posted by Mwongozi at 2:52 PM on September 26, 2006
Response by poster: Cool, that helps, thanks! For anyone else reading this thread, the green ones are recycled anti-static and the pink ones are not.
posted by thumpasor at 3:15 PM on September 26, 2006
posted by thumpasor at 3:15 PM on September 26, 2006
Keep some around in case you, or anyone you care about, gets the DTs.
posted by rob511 at 4:14 PM on September 26, 2006
posted by rob511 at 4:14 PM on September 26, 2006
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posted by Andrew Brinton at 5:00 PM on September 26, 2006
posted by Andrew Brinton at 5:00 PM on September 26, 2006
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