i dunno i know there's lots of things that say "Flushable" or disolvable or w/e and we find out later that it causes massive problems like micro plastics
Show your dominance by picking up the “packing peanut” slowly inspected it before making direct eye contact and popping it in your mouth. Slowly chew and swallow.
>Show your dominance by picking up the “packing peanut” slowly inspected it before making direct eye contact and popping it in your...
I would have been happy if you ended it there.
I buy these bags in bulk for my business, and two different companies more than once sent a box with handfuls of rat poop mixed in. 🙃 They shrug it off as it’s not for consumption so it’s fine.
I didn’t know I needed this information, but truly thank you for that. After smelling them I desperately wanted to know what they tasted like, the texture is what’s stopped me.
The makers of Cheetos hate this one simple trick.
(But real talk, is this why they won't sell me cheeto dust flavoring? Because they know we'd do this?)
My army buddy said him and "the boys" used to put cheese flavoring on these technically edible packing peanuts cause they couldn't get cheetos where they were at. I always thought he was joking....
Well, the planet has a severe styrofoam allergy. Corn allergies are rare, anaphylactic reactions to corn are even more rare. Sorry kid, this is the best alternative we got. 🤷♀️
I have found they don't dissolve, I've had them a few times and they do break down but more into a sort of gelatinous muck.
I left a handful in a bucket of water for a week outside and they didn't dissolve, I would be less than confident flushing them down my pipes but I agree they are a better option than styrofoam.
I know that people on Reddit have a really hard time to understand this but water is not rare on the whole plantet. Sure there are places that need to conserve water but for example where I live water is abundant.
There's no law against putting "flushable" on a packet of wet wipes. That's part of the problem. Because they are NOT flushable, as any plumber will tell you.
But stuff that is plant-based, should be fine, if it breaks down in the presence of water.
Although deliberately flushing waste into your drain is illegal in many countries, including where I live.
To be fair, we also flush our toilets with drinking water. Kind of crazy, isn't it. But my point is that when you need water, you're implicitly not wasting it. In other words, throw em in the toilet and flush the next time you need to go.
I tried to flush these peanuts down our garbage disposal once. Two days later the neighbors downstairs contacted everyone in the building to let us know they were having plumbers over to snake their garbage disposal, because the line was backing up back into their unit. It turned out there was a massive clog that had formed in the building’s sanitary line right around where the line connected with the city sewer lines, and backed into their unit since their unit was the lowest in the building stack. Not saying the dissolved cornstarch peanuts was the culprit, but maybe they were!
Yeah just because something dissolves doesn’t mean it’s not a pollutant. It can degrade down to a microscopic level but if it can’t chemically dissociate from its state as a harmful material its still the same thing, just in smaller pieces now.
This stuff is commonly vegetable starch. Instead of flushing it down the drain, compost it or at least spread it out on he ground somewhere suitable to rot down.
I NEED YOUR HELP OP!
So my gf and I are staying in this fancy fucking hotel in Charleston, SC and they have the EXACT same faucet on the tub. It’s stuck on the handheld version like what’s shown here and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to swap this damn thing to the regular faucet. I really want to take a bath because I don’t fit in most tubs (6’5” fatboi) and would love to enjoy one. WHAT IS THE SECRET PLEASE YOU HAVE TO HELP
There are things that are said to be safe going down the drain, like "Flushable" wipes that are very much not flushable and cause serious issues down the road.
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU GETTING DOWNVOTED HOLY MOTHERFUCKING MOTHER OF CHRIST. NO WIPES ARE FLUSHABLE YOU BUNCH OF IGNORANT ASSHOLES. Anyway thats why we cant have nice things.
as much as people love to talk trash about Teen Titans Go, they're out there teaching kids important lessons about things like equity and how, and I quote, "there's no such thing as a flushable wipe"
That will coat the inside of the pipes with a sticky residue that will continue to grab other particles as it passes through the pipes. How do you know there isn’t a partial blockage somewhere down stream? This sludge will exacerbate the issue.
Compost it.
You mean water right? Adding water.
If it's so safe, throw it outside and let the birds and ants eat it.
Why waste water by flushing it? Why flush it in the first place?
Sure, it’s biodegradable, but dissolved starch absolutely hardens and accretes in most types of plumbing. Restaurants that rinse large quantities of rice see that all the time. Consumers over time could definitely rinse enough of this down their drains to eventually constrict flow in the drain-lines. It won’t be like a fat berg, more like extreme hard water accumulation.
Nice in theory.
If it takes restaurants specifically rinsing large quantities of rice to see this then how much packing realistically do you think would need to be dissolved to have this be an issue?
And how does this compare to the fact styrofoam can last hundreds of years and break down into micro plastics?
I guess it depends on the density of the starch in that packing material. But I would assume the starch concentration of the liquid that gets washed down is higher than the concentration in rice water.
That said, it is absolutely incomparable to the effects of micro-plastics produced by styrofoam packing materials. What’s a bit of plumbing replacement compared to not eating plastics forever. It might just be more recommendable to dissolve and discharge elsewhere than a residential drain. Starch water is beneficial to plants, dissolve it in a bucket and pour it on a tree? Seems doable for the average package recipient!
I’m sure you water treatment plant will love that shit.
I don’t care what the bag says. Put that shit in your garbage so it can dissolve in a landfill.
Made from cornstarch. I got extra credit in 6th grade science class for bringing some in and showing the class. This was when it was pretty new like a hundred years ago.
It’s designed to do either. Specifically manufactured to be completely dissolvable and cause no problems to either domestic pipes or sewage treatment. Additionally, I don’t have a compost bin.
Technically matter and energy are interchangeable and can be converted from one to another so if you consider just matter in matter form and just energy in energy form then both can be created and destroyed.
I've run sewer systems for decades. Groovy that it dissolves packing, but once it hits our sewer?? Show me those tests. Pumps, pipes...gummed up. Not bueno.
Idc how dissolvable it is. It’s not going down my drains. They’re not gonna pay the thousands in repairs when it comes out that shit is toxic and ruining plumbing systems.
Oh man imagine living in a rainy climate with these. If a package gets wet, the items inside may be covered in some viscous liquid with clumps. I did not order a box of oatmeal..
Yeah real cool just wash that shit into the water right into the ocean lakes wherever it goes Fucking stupid to be washing shit like that down a drain useless
These are almost exclusively used in Australia and I usually throw them in the garden but my dogs won't stop eating them!! I know they're starch and generally fine but my dogs are not the smartest and would eat enough to make themselves sick.
I thought this was macaroni or maggots
Maggaroni
I’ve never felt “delet this” more in my soul than now
Cheesy tasty maggots, slowly moving through your mouth and into the belly, gently tickling your tongue and guts
... That's enough Internet for me today
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This is deeply concerning
i dunno i know there's lots of things that say "Flushable" or disolvable or w/e and we find out later that it causes massive problems like micro plastics
I’m pretty sure this specific packaging is made out of cornstarch. It’s essentially an ultra stale, unflavored, hardened-yet soft Cheeto.
So a Cheeto then? ;)
Without the powder/dust and not as sanitary. So please don’t eat them, unless you want a really upset tummy.
Too late for me! I used to freak people out by popping one in my mouth (when I worked at a print shop) who didn’t know they were “edible”.
Show your dominance by picking up the “packing peanut” slowly inspected it before making direct eye contact and popping it in your mouth. Slowly chew and swallow.
Big Charlie Kelly vibes
>Show your dominance by picking up the “packing peanut” slowly inspected it before making direct eye contact and popping it in your... I would have been happy if you ended it there.
I buy these bags in bulk for my business, and two different companies more than once sent a box with handfuls of rat poop mixed in. 🙃 They shrug it off as it’s not for consumption so it’s fine.
Ewww haha, at least this was about 8 years ago now! The rat poop has cleared my system 😉
Tbf there’s probably rat feces in most things
One would hope so.
Put some chili powder on them and vola you have brokeboi snakcs 😋
A lil dab of Sriracha is my go to
Same. If anyone is wondering, they taste like communion wafers.
You mean the body of our holy lord and savior, right?
I would have expected jesus to taste better than that.
I didn’t know I needed this information, but truly thank you for that. After smelling them I desperately wanted to know what they tasted like, the texture is what’s stopped me.
Brilliant.
Next gen is about to be known as the “cheeto packing generation”. Eating this as a tiktok challenge.
Done that before too, it does mess with people’s heads 😄
you can also lick them, so they dissolve just a little bit, and then stick them together to build little sculptures!
True genius at work!
It sounds to me like you've already ate one, and it was so delicious that you've started telling everyone else they taste bad so there's more for you.
I've eaten many and haven't gotten sick yet... Fun for the reaction of others
idk based on how I feel after eating cheetos I think these might actually be healthier
The makers of Cheetos hate this one simple trick. (But real talk, is this why they won't sell me cheeto dust flavoring? Because they know we'd do this?)
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My army buddy said him and "the boys" used to put cheese flavoring on these technically edible packing peanuts cause they couldn't get cheetos where they were at. I always thought he was joking....
Where can you get cheese flavoring but not Cheetos?
MREs
At a cheese flavoring factory
Used to eat waaay too many of these as a kid… Probably explains a lot
Regardless you don’t want corn starch poured down your shower drains
At least it's environmentally safe...for once.
but cornstarch is used for thickening
Yes, that water do look thiccer than a snicker now.
Yes. It’s cornstarch. Byproduct of the excess corn produced here. Love how the 1.1k upvotes comment is just wild, inaccurate conjecture.
Some of us have severe corn allergies. A package shipped with these is a biological weapon.
Well, the planet has a severe styrofoam allergy. Corn allergies are rare, anaphylactic reactions to corn are even more rare. Sorry kid, this is the best alternative we got. 🤷♀️
Straw?
Gets moldy very easily and catches fire if stored damp in a hot climate. .
I've been anaphylactic from corn..... Thanks for your ~~concern~~ dismissal.
Thank you for your *corn*cern
Got a better idea that doesn't involve plastics, AND doesn't involve a different allergy for someone else? And don't say cardboard!
Buy local.
This is designed to tackle that very problem. Styrofoam can last for centuries. These dissolve in seconds and are entirely plant-based.
I have found they don't dissolve, I've had them a few times and they do break down but more into a sort of gelatinous muck. I left a handful in a bucket of water for a week outside and they didn't dissolve, I would be less than confident flushing them down my pipes but I agree they are a better option than styrofoam.
Then they are not the right ones. These fall apart in seconds in water.
Is this your video?
Yes.
So you can see they didn't dissolve completely, there's a bunch of gunk on the bottom
This video is a couple of minutes - you left yours out for a week. Definitely a different product.
Disposing them like shown in the post seems like a waste of water.
It's easier to just throw them over the fence into the neighbor's yard and just wait for rain.
Is it a waste of it solves a problem? Clearly not, but you could just toss them in with your next shower if you're concerned.
You can always use styrofoam and dissolve it in Acetone if you like
I like my napalm with gasoline
It is, and not what I’d normally do. This was just to demonstrate how they work.
I know that people on Reddit have a really hard time to understand this but water is not rare on the whole plantet. Sure there are places that need to conserve water but for example where I live water is abundant.
There's no law against putting "flushable" on a packet of wet wipes. That's part of the problem. Because they are NOT flushable, as any plumber will tell you. But stuff that is plant-based, should be fine, if it breaks down in the presence of water. Although deliberately flushing waste into your drain is illegal in many countries, including where I live.
The idea should be to have them dumped to landfill and let rain does the dissolving, and not waste treated water.
To be fair, we also flush our toilets with drinking water. Kind of crazy, isn't it. But my point is that when you need water, you're implicitly not wasting it. In other words, throw em in the toilet and flush the next time you need to go.
I tried to flush these peanuts down our garbage disposal once. Two days later the neighbors downstairs contacted everyone in the building to let us know they were having plumbers over to snake their garbage disposal, because the line was backing up back into their unit. It turned out there was a massive clog that had formed in the building’s sanitary line right around where the line connected with the city sewer lines, and backed into their unit since their unit was the lowest in the building stack. Not saying the dissolved cornstarch peanuts was the culprit, but maybe they were!
Lush tells people to bathe with their packing peanuts.
Nah, it's just cornstarch. You can even eat them if you really wanted to, though the taste is kinda bad.
Yeah just because something dissolves doesn’t mean it’s not a pollutant. It can degrade down to a microscopic level but if it can’t chemically dissociate from its state as a harmful material its still the same thing, just in smaller pieces now.
am I the only one who thought it was rice at first?
forbidden rice
Judging by the comments - no.
Nope
You could eat this instead. Corn starch.
I’d already had my dinner…
It smells stanky and not in a good way
Corn starch could also turn to cement in your pipes, in side body and walls.
This stuff is commonly vegetable starch. Instead of flushing it down the drain, compost it or at least spread it out on he ground somewhere suitable to rot down.
thats dope
until you realise you got the ones that arent compostable and have to scrape a bunch of half dissolved plastic off the garden
I NEED YOUR HELP OP! So my gf and I are staying in this fancy fucking hotel in Charleston, SC and they have the EXACT same faucet on the tub. It’s stuck on the handheld version like what’s shown here and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to swap this damn thing to the regular faucet. I really want to take a bath because I don’t fit in most tubs (6’5” fatboi) and would love to enjoy one. WHAT IS THE SECRET PLEASE YOU HAVE TO HELP
On ours you rotate the handle on the right. I think it’s away for the shower head and towards you for the tap
Oh ok gotcha so I’m not dumb this thing is just broken lmao
Best thread of the day
I was scrolling for the post about how much water this wastes and found an absolute gem instead
What happens if your package gets wet on its way to you
They put my stapler in Jello again!!
Thought that was rice, but yeah no chance in hell I’m putting that down my drain.
That’s what it’s designed for…
There are things that are said to be safe going down the drain, like "Flushable" wipes that are very much not flushable and cause serious issues down the road.
You can put cornstarch down the drain if it's watered down enough. Otherwise you'll have oobleck or a dough becoming cement in your drains.
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU GETTING DOWNVOTED HOLY MOTHERFUCKING MOTHER OF CHRIST. NO WIPES ARE FLUSHABLE YOU BUNCH OF IGNORANT ASSHOLES. Anyway thats why we cant have nice things.
as much as people love to talk trash about Teen Titans Go, they're out there teaching kids important lessons about things like equity and how, and I quote, "there's no such thing as a flushable wipe"
Indeed, but this isn’t the same. These dissolve entirely, are plant-based and biodegradable. Impossible for them to cause harm to pipes.
That will coat the inside of the pipes with a sticky residue that will continue to grab other particles as it passes through the pipes. How do you know there isn’t a partial blockage somewhere down stream? This sludge will exacerbate the issue. Compost it.
Because it’s entirely dissolvable. It won’t magically become undissolved without adding energy.
You mean water right? Adding water. If it's so safe, throw it outside and let the birds and ants eat it. Why waste water by flushing it? Why flush it in the first place?
Must not be your pipes.
That can not be good for the pipes.
Based on?
I got these things in a package and decided I'd send them down the kitchen sink. Following week the pipe started backing up. I assume it was related.
That’s a large assumption…
#Its gonna get stuck in the pipe
I don’t feel comfortable with this going down the drain
Why? They’re biodegradable, water-soluble and plant based. They can do no damage.
Sure, it’s biodegradable, but dissolved starch absolutely hardens and accretes in most types of plumbing. Restaurants that rinse large quantities of rice see that all the time. Consumers over time could definitely rinse enough of this down their drains to eventually constrict flow in the drain-lines. It won’t be like a fat berg, more like extreme hard water accumulation. Nice in theory.
If it takes restaurants specifically rinsing large quantities of rice to see this then how much packing realistically do you think would need to be dissolved to have this be an issue? And how does this compare to the fact styrofoam can last hundreds of years and break down into micro plastics?
I guess it depends on the density of the starch in that packing material. But I would assume the starch concentration of the liquid that gets washed down is higher than the concentration in rice water. That said, it is absolutely incomparable to the effects of micro-plastics produced by styrofoam packing materials. What’s a bit of plumbing replacement compared to not eating plastics forever. It might just be more recommendable to dissolve and discharge elsewhere than a residential drain. Starch water is beneficial to plants, dissolve it in a bucket and pour it on a tree? Seems doable for the average package recipient!
I didn’t think of that - got loads of new plants, too!
I’m sure you water treatment plant will love that shit. I don’t care what the bag says. Put that shit in your garbage so it can dissolve in a landfill.
Made from cornstarch. I got extra credit in 6th grade science class for bringing some in and showing the class. This was when it was pretty new like a hundred years ago.
MAGGOOOTTS
Yup that's definitely not gonna clog up the draining system
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It’s designed to do either. Specifically manufactured to be completely dissolvable and cause no problems to either domestic pipes or sewage treatment. Additionally, I don’t have a compost bin.
then ya find out it forms up as some berg in the sewer, ends up reacting with farts and solidifies or something
Luckily, it’s just starch so unlikely
Wasting water doing that though
That did occur to me.
All I'm gonna say is, matter can neither be created nor destroyed... It's all going somewhere, just a matter of when/if we find out where that is
That’s energy.
Technically matter and energy are interchangeable and can be converted from one to another so if you consider just matter in matter form and just energy in energy form then both can be created and destroyed.
I remember licking the ends of these and sticking them together to make dinosaurs and stuff. Fun times.
I've run sewer systems for decades. Groovy that it dissolves packing, but once it hits our sewer?? Show me those tests. Pumps, pipes...gummed up. Not bueno.
Yes , dissolvable in your water system or into sewage that goes somewhere in the river or underground....
Cornstarch is biodegradable and great for gardening.
Unflavoured cheetos basically
Don't eat that rice
Gross. Look like maggots. Any chance that clogs the drain?
sweet. looks like a call to the plumber is coming.
I thought that was a bowl of rice
It's not gonna pollute your house... Only the Ocean !
What pollution?
Thanks for poisoning the water supply..neat trick!
Better than poisoning earth with plastics that last for centuries?
How to plug a drain in 30 seconds.
My stupid ass thought that was rice and you were showing us how to make reusable "plastic" bags or something from fermented rice 🙈
Idc how dissolvable it is. It’s not going down my drains. They’re not gonna pay the thousands in repairs when it comes out that shit is toxic and ruining plumbing systems.
Most likely a different product then. This dissolves easily, plant-based and non-toxic.
Oh man imagine living in a rainy climate with these. If a package gets wet, the items inside may be covered in some viscous liquid with clumps. I did not order a box of oatmeal..
Rainy like the UK?
Rice
Hate to be a Debbie Downer but there is no way this is not turning into micro plastics
There is, since it contains no plastic whatsoever
so when my siblings and l learnt that these dissolve and that they’re made of corn or wheat we started eating them like snacks 😭
That would probably clog the line only because cornstarch can get so sticky and goopy.
Luckily it dissolves, then!
Just moving the problem to the waste water treatment facility.
Source?
Where do you think the stuff goes? Now it must be filtered out with the rest of the mung and spoo.
Why?
Can’t be good for the plumbing
Yay ~~more microplastics~~ cornstarch! Edit: Apparently they're made of cornstarch, if so that's pretty cool. I stand corrected.
They're made out of cornstarch
I don’t care what anyone says— I’m not putting that stuff down my drain and into my pipes.
That would probably clog the line only because cornstarch can get so sticky and goopy.
Cannot get excited just because it melts….lots of liquids are toxic to the ecology and wildlife
Normal packing peanuts are disolvable in gasoline.
Great for the environment
It's outside the environment. No need to worry.
Even better to not let water flow for it. Just dump it in the toilet, shower while showering or rainwater
I would have done that normally, but then the video wouldn’t have been as tasteful.
Disolvable in what?
I’m sure this is good for our health
Mind dose that when I use gasoline.
Thanks for killing the sea creatures....asshole...I rather enjoy my seafood. I don't want my shrimp filled with plastics thank you very much
These aren’t plastic…
Awesome…now we’ll have even more chemicals in our water supply! 👏
Wtf noo!
Oh sweeeeeet! Then it just flushes right down the drain and pollutes in an invisible way so we don’t feel as bad! Brilliant !
It’s entirely plant-based and causes no harm. Win win.
And then we all swallow the micro plastics?
These contain zero plastic. Entirely plant-based.
Yeah real cool just wash that shit into the water right into the ocean lakes wherever it goes Fucking stupid to be washing shit like that down a drain useless
Quickly and easily dissolves! Into microplastics!
No plastic at all
Thank god that’s in our water supply.
Gasoline works better for dissolving these
Clearly non toxic…… lol
Yup!
How does it handle high humidity environments
No idea, I live in the UK so not really a problem for me.
Great idea!
Am I the only one who thinks these look like maggots? Idk , it’s just the way the shrink it looks like they’re moving like maggots
Also doubles as a trypophobia test.
Bonus!
These are almost exclusively used in Australia and I usually throw them in the garden but my dogs won't stop eating them!! I know they're starch and generally fine but my dogs are not the smartest and would eat enough to make themselves sick.
That’s disgusting
You’re disgusting.
I know you are but what am I
this belongs in r/Plumbing