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Use solvent to remove labels & recycle shipping boxes and |
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Score
70%
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1 votes,
Feasibility
70%
Originality
90%
Humour
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The Problem:
Needless garbage; needless expense
The Social Invention:
Here's a way to recycle and save yourself some money. Keep a jar of paint thinner (a non-flammable, “unaggressive” solvent) in a dispenser jar on your desk. (For convenience, it should be a pump-top or squeeze dispenser.) When a shipping envelope or box arrives that you can re-use for outgoing mail, squirt the solvent on its mailing labels, wait two minutes, then peel them off. (Allow the solvent to get under the edges of the tape. Where labels are covered by a long, wide strip of transparent tape, score it close to the label with a razor knife before squirting. If the label does not peel off easily, squirt small amounts beneath it, at the peeling edge, during removal.)
For water-based labels and stamps, wet a paper towel, lay it on them, wait ten minutes, and remove them. (Solvent can also easily remove small, irritatingly clingy price stickers--they need be soaked only 30 seconds before peeling off. And it can clean greasy stains and smudges off used items one may have purchased.)
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Born 1943. Background in computers & proofreading. Interested in Bigfoot, politics, social inventions, anti-scofticism
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