{"id":25622,"date":"2014-12-23T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/?p=25622"},"modified":"2019-08-05T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:19:10","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-packing-peanuts-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/23\/all-you-need-to-know-about-packing-peanuts-video\/","title":{"rendered":"All You Need to Know about Packing Peanuts [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the cherry on top whether you&#8217;re moving, shipping or storing. Packing Peanuts are the last touch in the <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/?s=packing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">packing process <\/a>to ensure that your items are protected when while being transported. Before picking up your packing peanuts, did you know not all packing peanuts are created the same?<\/p>\n<p>Most packing peanuts are created out of styrofoam, which is one reason our landfills are filling up quickly. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/Articles\/About\/106\/Biodegradable-packing-peanuts-keep-Styrofoam-out-of-landfills\/?utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=pr&amp;utm_content=20141223-allyouneedto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ecological impact<\/a> of this is significant. Styrofoam is non-biodegradable meaning it it does not break down over time&nbsp;to a natural, environmentally safe condition.<\/p>\n<p>As said before, there is an alternative! There <em>are<\/em> packing peanuts that are biodegradable. The packing peanuts in the video below are environmentally safe and even edible. Although, we hear they may need a little salt!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U-Haul Biodegradable Packing Peanuts\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jUDAqpI7Mrc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Keep the environment in mind and pick up&nbsp;these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingSupplies\/Protective-stuff\/Biodegradable-Packing-Peanuts?id=730&amp;utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movingsupplies&amp;utm_content=20141223-allyouneedto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biodegradable Packing Peanuts<\/a>&nbsp;for your packing needs!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What other packing supplies do you use? Let us know in the comments below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the cherry on top whether you&#8217;re moving, shipping or storing. Packing Peanuts are the last touch in the packing process to ensure that your items are protected when while being transported. Before picking up your packing peanuts, did you know not all packing peanuts are created the same? Most packing peanuts are created out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":25681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1514,1018,86,112,126,134,875,414,143],"class_list":["post-25622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packing-2","tag-biodegradable","tag-go-green","tag-how-to","tag-moving","tag-moving-supplies","tag-packing","tag-packing-peanuts","tag-packing-supplies","tag-planning-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51854,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622\/revisions\/51854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}