Eliminate the Use of Polystyrene
http://www.ejnet.org/plastics/polystyrene/nader.html
http://www.earthresource.org/campaigns/capp/capp-styrofoam.html
Polystyrene is one of my ‘pet hates’, many places have already banned its use and I just wish other places would do the same. It is a major cause of marine pollutant, it is directly responsible for the death of thousands of birds and animals every year especially marine wildlife. It uses about 20% of all land fill space, it NEVER decomposes, it is damaging to the people who produce it and damaging to the people who use it. The chemical composite of it has been proved to be carcinogenic and have detrimental effect on the reproductive system, it is also linked with chromosomal disorders in the children of those working in the industry. Why it is not completely banned through out the world I just don’t know. It is truly evil stuff.
Please; just refuse it, don’t use it, don’t buy it, don’t sell it, don’t accept anything sold in it or wrapped in it and never, never, never think it doesn’t matter, IT DOES.
1. Polystyrene has serious negative impacts on workers producing it. According to the Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education, styrene, a component of polystyrene, leaches into food from polystyrene foodware.
2. Styrene has been found in 100 percent of human tissue samples and 100 percent of human nursing milk samples tested.
3. There is evidence that styrene is a carcinogen and it has also been linked to reproductive problems.
4. Styrene has also been linked to increased levels of chromosomal damage, abnormal pulmonary function and cancer in workers at polystyrene and styrene plants.
5. Manufacturing polystyrene is also a major producer of pollution. In 1986, EPA ranked the 20 chemicals whose production generated the most hazardous wasted. Polystyrene was number five.
6. 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.
7. These products are made with petroleum, a non-sustainable and heavily polluting resource
8. By volume, the amount of space used up in landfills by all plastics is between 25 and 30 percent.
I found lots of really horrible pictures of injured and mutilated animals, all victims of pollution. I didn’t think anyone would want to sit and look at them so instead I found some nice pictures, pictures of how things should be, and how we need to make sure things stay
Two videos on the perils of polystyrene.
Followed by the third video which is lovely, you need to see this one.
