Styrofoam is forever.
Forever.
Think about it...mull it over...that's a long time, isn't it? That's a long time for this substance, which doesn't even biodegrade, according to the article, to sit in our landfills. While all the perishable items around it, like scraps of food, disintegrate and disperse back into the ground, these little white chunks of styrofoam remain.
A little bit of dry humor in this article that I rather enjoyed was this:
To paraphrase Woody Allen, if one of the layers of hell is reserved for the person who invented aluminum siding, then the inventor of styrofoam must occupy several layers of hell all by himself (Portland, Maine School District Bans Styrofoam Trays).
This stuff never goes away. It's just like the plastic bottles...but maybe it's worse?
Portland, Maine has at least made the first step in the right direction where this is concerned - they've banned the use of Styrofoam trays in their schools. Who's going to be the next one to take up the ball that they've sent rolling...or will everyone else just disregard it?
Get Styrofoam out of the schools, the workplace, the restaurants, and for Heaven's sake, get it out of your homes. Move to reusable coffee mugs and actual plates. Water is cheap - remember, two liters a day is only fifty cents a year - so just use real plates and wash them afterwards.
Our lives are too much about what's convenient these days, and the earth is starting to reflect that.
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