Foam Fuss

What is all the fuss about Styrofoam?

Well, to begin with, I think that is just a brand name and not the material we refer to when we think of trays, plates, cups, and packaging material.  I re-purpose it whenever I can and try not to ever buy it to begin with because it is difficult to find a place that recycles it.    

My in-laws visited us this weekend and wanted to know where the disposable plates were.  This happens even after all these years of discussing how we do not use foam plates like they do at their home.  I know it's been at least 15 years because I remember packing toddler plates when I would visit them.  

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he estado reciclando por mucho tiempo el corcho blanco o piezas de unicel pero no me gusta comprarlo y prefiero dar ideas de como reusarlo asi que tengo una categoria especial para estas actividades y se llama FOAM HOME

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Then I started thinking about how many years I have been doing projects to re-purpose foam.  I remember my dad built us a foam cutting machine when we were kids and we made all sorts of decorations for Christmas and Birthdays.  I also used it in college on an impromptu sign I made for our Psychology club, which won us first place for booth decor, ahem, ahem, I don't want to brag but we even beat the Architecture club and their complex wooden structure.     

Mine was very light and portable. I used discarded posters and pieces of foam from packaging that I found at my work-study office.

• I cut the yellow posters into circles.
  
• Glued the circles to the foam.
  
• Melted around the poster using the hot tip of a butter knife.
  
• Easy but stinky.  It has to be done outdoors.
  
• I put it together using skewers.

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I have created a category called FOAM HOME for all sorts of ideas for reusing this thing we keep calling Styrofoam and is known in Spanish as corcho blanco or unicel --  which are great search words just in case you want to expand your images, projects, and ideas.