When a custom rubber stamp manufacturer last week made a plea for people to take his factory’s scraps, the responses started bouncing in.

Nic Magnuson, who runs Magnuson Custom Stamps and helps lead operations at Unity Stamp Company in New London, Minnesota, said his companies throw out more than 200 pounds of clean natural rubber scraps each week. He reached out to mulch recyclers, playground surfacing specialists and more about taking the scraps, but no one wanted it. So, he took to Reddit, offering to ship out the rubber scraps to anyone who wanted it, just asking them to cover roughly $1 per pound in shipping costs.

Magnuson said the Reddit post has so far racked up around 6.6 million views and that he’s received hundreds of emails and DMs.

“I've been working through them one by one and I'm still not caught up. The variety of intended uses has been the best part,” he said in an email.

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