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- <text id=92TT1508>
- <title>
- July 06, 1992: Styrofoam Blitz
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- July 06, 1992 Pills for the Mind
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- BUSINESS
- Styrofoam Blitz
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- <p>Wood shavings may offer relief from those pesky packing pellets
- </p>
- <p> They stick to your clothes, are devilishly difficult to
- sweep up and are lousy for the environment. Yet those
- ubiquitous, annoying Styrofoam pellets seem to swaddle just
- about every fragile object sent through the mail. Now Cal
- Garland, a Suwanee, Ga., lumberyard owner, has patented a
- machine that manufactures fluffy curls of paper-thin wood
- shavings that do the job just as well as polystyrene. And after
- the package is opened, just dump the wispy curlicues into your
- backyard: they also make a mighty fine mulch.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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