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We can make pit pillows of it
Well, if nobody wants peach pits, you either gotta persuade someone they really do want them after all, or you gotta invent some way of making a profit from them yourselves. Maybe a little chemical analysis is called for here. For instance it might be worth checking out their nutritional value as an ingredient for, say, pig food, etc. (On the other hand they might be harmful). But after all they do have that juicy nut-like interior, even if it can be slightly bitter. If they don't have much nutritional value, well diluted and sweetened up a bit... well they might serve to give a hithertoo unheard of characteristic new flavour to spreads or syrup for pancakes, etc. --or to soft drinks for those folks who'd like a change from Cola. Maybe you'd best start the drinks company under a different name and keep the ingredient secret, otherwise everyone would use this cheap ingredient to start getting in on the act! So it's a tricky question whether you should emphasise its peachy origin or not.
Admittedly that still leaves the crushed 'shells'. But if the syrup (or the "Pit-stop Cola") was a market success, any costs in disposing of the shells should be more than covered. On the other hand now being crushed they might be more marketable. Or, having invested in plant for this exciting new drinks company, maybe you'd have the means to destructively distill the 'shells' down to methanol for fuel, as per another suggestion lower down and earn the company some eco- browny points in the public mind. It might even help save on the fuel bill for the drinks factory.
Maybe they would be suitable for making low-spec concrete for such products as pavng slabs, etc (peach coloured of course!). This would have an 'ecological' angle in the lower transportation cost of lightweight slabs.
Well sure! Package them and sell them as seeds (of the "renowned Georgia peaches") for folks to grow at home in pots. You don't have to worry about losing sales from that because half of them will be bought as gifts, and most people quickly lose interest in that kind of thing. The main thing is that they might just buy them.
What sort of quantities are we talking about here? --and what times of the year? How about letting the growers collect them and composting them back into the soil together with the pulp. ----or would they germinate and grow as seeds do?
Research a way of making methanol from them as a gasoline or diesel additive to help the fuel crisis.
1). I think there's a skincare product based on finely ground peach pits (or similar). It's promoted as "removing dead facial skin cells" or something. But maybe the need there is not for really vast quantities.
2). There's also a hand-cleansing product for people who work with car engines, etc, for removing that black grease. This product also contains particles of pits about the size of white sugar.
I'm afraid I've forgotten the name of both products.
If they don't already emit a peach smell, soak them or spray something on them that will cause a peach fragrance when they burn. Sell them as scented fire-starters.
My second idea is to contact potpourri companies. I've seen all kinds of items in potpourri. Let's add peach pits into the equation.
Burning piles of peach pits have been used to protect orange trees from the cold. Mouse-over the linked image for text explanation of the photo.
http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=73017170&epmid=1&partner=Google
Grind them down and sell it as cat litter or bird cage liner.
There must be some nutritional value in a peach pit, pulverized or pureed. Find it and promote it.
Create a game or even a sport that uses peach pits and the ball or board marker.
Give them to an artist to handpaint miniature scenes on them and then sell them as art.
Create a sarcastic line of greeting cards. Glue a Peach Pit on the cover with a tagline beneath it: "You're the pits."
Create a new fad gift -- the Pet Peach Pit.
Introduce an annual Peach Pit Throwing Contest.
Use them aquariums instead of color gravel.
Use them in driveways instead of gravel.
Wash and sell them to arts-and-crafts stores.
Sell cases of them them on eBay. They'll buy ANYthing on eBay!
Peach are used in making gas mask filters. Perhaps you could sell them to such a manufacturer.
Invent a large percussion shaker
that uses peach pits as the noise-making contents. Make it and sell it. Or
contract production and sell the pits. See
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=11972621
Sculptors are always looking for materials to build with. Offer the pits free to them if they'll come and get them. |