I think it is great that our high school students express such an interest in our environment. Unfortunately, as too often happens when activists respond to a given stimulus, they do not see the ...

Americans throw away 76 million tons of containers and packaging annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This includes 25 billion polystyrene (Styrofoam) coffee cups. The Earth ...

Canada should ban styrofoam items. Did you know that people throw away about 25 billion styrofoam cups a year? Styrofoam cannot decompose. If you put styrofoam items in a trash can, the garbage truck ...

Styrofoam is not only killing our environment, but it’s killing people as well. We all know that styrofoam is bad for the environment, but it is also very harmful to our bodies. The U.S. Environmental ...

A letter regarding styrofoam recycling was positive and a nice change from the usual negative comments. Those of us who may not have the room to collect or the ability to travel to the landfill to ...

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Expanding the ban on Styrofoam containers as considered by the Albany County Legislature is bad for business, health, quality of life and bad for the environment. Two recent letters ("Styrofoam ban ...

Earlier this month, the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate passed legislation to ban polystyrene foam - aka Styrofoam - making Maryland the first state to take such a prestigious stand against ...

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