RE: packing peanuts

["Snyder, Mark" <mark.snyder@moea.state.mn.us>]

Vendors:

FP International - http://www.fpintl.com/index.html
Look for Flo-Pak Bio 8 in Product Info

Eco-Friendly (National Starch and Chemical Co.) - http://www.eco-foam.com/friendly.htm

There's probably others, but these were a couple I found with a quick web search.

You can render the wastewater loading question moot by reusing or composting the packing peanuts instead of dissolving them down the drain.

Mark Snyder
Pollution Prevention Specialist
Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance

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> From: 	Tammy Allen[SMTP:tallen@co.pinellas.fl.us]
> Reply To: 	Tammy Allen
> Sent: 	Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:03 AM
> To: 	p2tech@great-lakes.net
> Subject: 	packing peanuts
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> Does anyone have a list of vendors for the new starch-based packing peanuts and do you know if these peanuts, when dissolved down the drain, cause any additional loading on the wastewater?
> 
> Tammy L. Allen
> Senior Environmental Specialist
> Pinellas County Environmental Management
> 512 S. Ft. Harrison Ave.
> Clearwater, FL  33763
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> (727) 464-4761
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> e-mail: tallen@co.pinellas.fl.us
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