You can use all of your styrofoam in your attic as additional insulation. Just start in a spot and keep going. Be sure the meat trays are cleaned.

Also, you could use the peanuts and inserts for container gardening as lightweight filler in the bottom of pots for drainage.

Grocery bags . . . . I use them as garbage bags for small trash cans. I'm thinking . . . .

Don't forget the "Growing Green" forum on GardenWeb.

I like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s idea for Styrofoam peanuts: box them up and mail them to the CEO of the company that sent 'em to you.

Steve's digits

Some companies will give you free shipping on your next order if you return their packing peanuts! (I think Bluestone Perennials has that system.) I use my packing peanuts to allow air into cheap potting soil that tends to pack and get hard. Works like a charm! :)

Hmmm, interesting new idea. Pack all the styrofoam into the grocery bags and put 'em in the attic...
I like that one, its got promise.

Some stores have bins set up for recycling plastic grocery bags. A large supermarket chain does that here, as well as WalMart, and even a small local dry-cleaner.

Also, often thrift stores - especially church-connected ones - will gladly re-use your clean plastic bags. Even our local library re-uses them for patrons with lots of books.

Dee