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kdeglurkar · ‎22-11-2025

Hi everyone! 👋

Hope you are having a great day.

I’m currently working on a circular economy research project and have a club with school kids in sustainability. We are passionate about reducing waste wherever possible.

I’ve built up a good amount of used packaging materials (plastic envelopes, cardboard packaging, padded envelopes etc.) that are still in good condition, and we much rather see them reused than thrown away.

I would like to contact eBay sellers who can use them for garments, books etc?

I’m giving them away completely free — I just ask that the cost of postage is covered.

Any suggestions let me know

Thanks 😊
Kiran

cobwebcottage · ‎22-11-2025

It's a nice thought although I would think that most sellers have a stock of recyclable material for packaging or know where to get it.

You could also try to reduce your carbon footprint by asking people local to you if they could use it instead of it being posted around the country.

suelel1968 · ‎22-11-2025

Hi @kdeglurkar Most areas have a free to collector site on Fbook. Or try Freecycle in your area which I often see packaging posted on. I have seen used padded envelopes sold on eBay. I think that would be great if you got children involved in the whole cycle to the point of even being able to make a small amount of money from it.

claire_leonhart · ‎23-11-2025

That is wonderful, they also become more responsable, hopefully. I took the habit to build my own postage on simple stuff, or to reinforce some, plus I did lot of changing house, I just buy raw material and I can't still make air cushions or styrene, tapes, etc., unfortunately. Say, do you need some empty egg boxes and rolls of paper cardboard? They could build lots of stuff with that and few white glue, I just have so many. I was supposed to use them, but guess what? I am giving away furnitures, and change them again, hopefully for last time, so I didn't had much time.

gjalp · ‎23-11-2025

I would recommend advertising on local sites. I am on several and you often see such things being offered up to collect (but never the darned empty jars Im after 😅). Its not even free sites but local area/community sites. You can get everything from crates and moving boxes to bubble wrap and packing peanuts (although I make and use popcorn for packing to stop things moving about). It usually gets snapped up as people like a freebie.