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Article: Looking for a more environmentally friendly packing peanut. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 24, 1993
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ST. PAUL, Minn. _ If you've been cursing those little Styrofoam packing pellets that have been all over the floor and between the couch cushions since they fell out of your Christmas gift Saturday, Robin Young is pleased.
Your disgust may be good for his business.
Young is president of a 4-year-old Minneapolis company that thinks it has a better solution to the gift-packing problem. Clean Green Packing makes little pellets, or ``peanuts,'' that feel a lot like Styrofoam but actually are made of such leftovers from food production as the non-nutritious part of wheat. So the pellets are closer to Cheetos than styrofoam, and they melt into nothing if you run water on them. ...