Recycle styro inserts (esp DC)?

[Sherr1_Shap1r0]

Big pet peeve of mine. When I used to get my wine deliveries in NJ, my town had a styrofoam recycling bin in the town yard - I would pile a bunch into my SUV and felt pretty good about not adding them to the landfill. Now, where I live in Florida, I cannot find anyplace to take them. I called my town and several nearby towns to ask, and they all told me just to throw them in with my garbage. I just can’t do that so I have stacks taking up way too much room in my garage, hoping I will find a local wine store or someone who will use them.

When I asked about a place near Albany to recycle these, I was told the nearest place was in Springfield, NJ!

I’ve gotten some local merchants to take a few, but the biggest shipper in our area (Empire Wines) will not take them. I don’t know why. They do a ton of shipping.

Ken - I know that place in Springfield! For years, that’s where I went. But my town started accepting styrofoam at the town recycling yard a couple years ago and it was that much easier.

[J_a_y_H_a_c_k]

Posner takes them in White Plains and I think he just repacks them for other people. Reuse is better than recycle.

[Sherr1_Shap1r0]

Big pet peeve of mine. When I used to get my wine deliveries in NJ, my town had a styrofoam recycling bin in the town yard - I would pile a bunch into my SUV and felt pretty good about not adding them to the landfill. Now, where I live in Florida, I cannot find anyplace to take them. I called my town and several nearby towns to ask, and they all told me just to throw them in with my garbage. I just can’t do that so I have stacks taking up way too much room in my garage, hoping I will find a local wine store or someone who will use them.

When I asked about a place near Albany to recycle these, I was told the nearest place was in Springfield, NJ!

I’ve gotten some local merchants to take a few, but the biggest shipper in our area (Empire Wines) will not take them. I don’t know why. They do a ton of shipping.

Ken - I know that place in Springfield! For years, that’s where I went. But my town started accepting styrofoam at the town recycling yard a couple years ago and it was that much easier.

[James_Dennis]

Neal,

The local craft beer crowd will happily take them. If you post on any of the myriad local beer pages, they will be picking them up within days.

James

[Victor_Hong]

… Reuse is better than recycle.

Not mutually exclusive. One can re-use and still eventually recycle (or just burn them to fire our woks.)

[Arv_R]

Our county recycler has now decided they wont take styro any more, and left a nasty gram on our big plastic ‘can’ about it.

but our wine related wines have been going to the local Total Wine. At one point the manager there told me they would recycle them. I probably take more shippers there than I actually buy in bottles of (overpriced) wine from them.

I like Garagiste’s paper mache ones. It goes so well with Jon’s blather.

[John_Danza]

Is there a retailer in the Chicago area that would like to take some styro shippers? I need to clear out a bunch from the basement.

[Neal.Mollen]

Yes, I should have been clearer: I wanted to find someone who would reuse them, and I did. Thx all.