While it was fun to receive a pile of holiday packages from faraway family, I now have enough packing peanuts to fill a closet. And not the eco-friendly kind, either. Feeling perplexed, I turned to the Web, where I found several clever ways to reuse the petroleum-based polystyrene peanuts, which can take -- gasp! -- hundreds of years to break down.

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