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- Anna Mae
- Jul 12, 2016
- 1 min read
San Francisco bans styrofoam in big environmental win
''Styrofoam may be the worst form of plastic. It’s very difficult to recycle, takes a long time to decompose and, because of its light weight and tendency to fragment, regularly ends up in oceans where it poses a major threat to marine life and birds.
The evidence against styrofoam is abundant, the evidence for styrofoam doesn’t really hold up. Sure, it’s convenient, but there are too many alternatives that are far better for the environment. On Wednesday, San Francisco recognized this and decided to ban all polystyrene, the chemical name for styrofoam, products by 2017...''
by Joe McCarthy
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