Reuse - An American Tradition

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Reuse - An American Tradition

Peanut Hotline a Ten Year Environmental Success Story

CALIFORNIA, OAKLAND, Jul. 2 -/E-Wire/-- This Independence Day, will mark a unique milestone in American resourcefulness. The Peanut Hotline turns ten. That's the national plastic packing peanut reuse program. Over a quarter million Americans have called the hotline ([REDACTED-PHONE]) since its launch in July of 1991. Each week, that's about 1,200 calls from individuals wanting the location of a nearby plastic peanut drop off site.

Plastic peanuts, technically known as expanded polystyrene or EPS loose fill, are the loosely packed filler in a box of merchandise. Because they're light weight – 99.6% of the peanut is air – and sturdy – with a less than one-half of one percent on average merchandise breakage rate – they're a popular choice with shippers.

Environmental analysts, Franklin & Associates, who quantify America's material discards for the EPA, figure that individual participation in the Peanut Hotline accounts for a fifty percent savings of the packaging material. In other words half of what's in your box has been around the block before. Altogether, combining both consumer and industrial usage of this material, Americans reuse a third of all peanuts manufactured in this country every year.

The Peanut Hotline is grassroots in nature. Typically an individual learns about it when they receive fragile goods from one of thousands of mail order shippers that include mention of the Peanut Hotline in their packages. Or they find out about it from their local municipal recycling program, a media story or a neighbor. There are Peanut Hotline drop off locations in all 50 states.

The Plastic Loose Fill Council, a national trade association headquartered in Oakland, CA, maintains the Peanut Hotline and provides information on the use and reuse of plastic loose fill or packing peanuts.

Plastic Loose Fill Council

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