Strrofoam

No Styrofoam!
In my school the students not allow using Styrofoam in Monday. So, the students must using plate. It can decrease the bad impact from Styrofoam, right?

Polystyrene or Styrofoam is a light-weight material, about 95% air, with very good insulation properties and is used in all types of products from cups that keep your beverages hot or cold to packaging material that keep your computers safe during shipping.

But Styrofoam is dangerous! Why?

- The biggest environmental health concern associated with polystyrene is the danger associated with Styrene, the basic building block of polystyrene. Styrene is used extensively in the manufacture of plastics, rubber, and resins. Acute health effects are generally irritation of the skin, eyes, and upper respiratory tract, and gastrointestinal effects.

- The polystyrene manufacturing process as the 5th largest creator of hazardous waste.

- Toxic chemicals leach out of these products into the food that they contain (especially when heated in a microwave). These chemicals threaten human health and reproductive systems.

- These products are made with petroleum, a non-sustainable and heavily polluting resource.

- The use of hydrocarbons in polystyrene foam manufacture releases the hydrocarbons into the air at ground level; there, combined with nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight, they form tropospheric ozone -- a serious air pollutant at ground level.

- By volume, the amount of space used up in landfills by all plastics is between 25 and 30 percent.

- Polystyrene foam is often dumped into the environment as litter. This material is notorious for breaking up into pieces that choke animals and clog their digestive systems.

Save Our Earth, xoxo