Biodegradable styrofoam vs. non-biodegradable styrofoam!
Like in true Recycled Beauty fashion, I take a look at this ‘behind the scenes’ photo below and see wide diversity in color, shape, size, texture...... but what else? What other differentiating point am I obsessing over?
Okay. Okay. Okay, I’ll tell you. The right / bottom 3 style peanuts are biodegradable. Tis’ very true. The styrofoam peanuts that look like ‘albino cheetos’ are actually biodegradable! The thing is that you’re contaminating your batch if you add them to the other flavor styrofoam peanuts when dropping them off at your local recycling center. However, you NEVER EVER add either kind of styrofoam peanuts to your recycling bin. Knowledge is power.
Now’s the fun part..... turning this concept into fabulousness. I did a test to see what happens on the biodegrading styrofoam peanuts. They looked like a soggy wet paper towel. Nothing interesting happened.... no bubbles, no fizzing, no nothing. I concluded that we had to make our own awesomeness to show the transition.
By taking a number from my food photography experience, I went with employing a splash to create drama and action. The peanut just to the right of the splash shows some of what the degradation looks like–swiss cheese like holes from where water droplets had burrowed their way through.
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What do you think? Do you feel it? Do you love it? Does it inspire you? Does it effectively inform you which peanuts are biodegradable? I’m interested to hear your comments.