This post is dedicated to all of those who know how much I loathe Styrofoam in any shape or form.
Looks like a nice rock from a distance but up close it is most certainly a hideous chunk of Styrofoam polluting the beach. Shame.
Styrofoam is a non-biodegradable material and appears to last forever. This, combined with the fact that Styrofoam is lightweight and therefore floats, means that over time a great deal of polystyrene has accumulated along coasts and waterways around the world. Just like this piece, along with dozens of others, strewed over the beach I was at. According to the internet, Styrofoam is now considered the main component of marine debris.
Styrofoam is made of petroleum, which of course is a non-sustainable resource and creates heavy pollution. AND when you use Styrofoam for food, chemicals can leach into the food from the container. These chemicals can affect human health and reproductive systems.
Now obviously these are extremes and I do not know anyone who uses Styrofoam on a regular basis, however, in my opinion, using it at all is horrible and there are alternatives to using Styrofoam.
Living in Juba, where the only kind of recycling done is locals using water bottles for containers to sell milk or oils or fuel in. Other than that, most of the other trash gets thrown into a pile and burned or left there to rot. Originally it was difficult to come from home where we can recycle just about everything, to a place where recycling doesn't really exist. Now I am used to it, of course it still bothers me but there is not much I can do about it. We are polluting our world. Lets do what we can to reduce the pollution. Every little bit counts.
SAY NO TO STYROFOAM.
Looks like a nice rock from a distance but up close it is most certainly a hideous chunk of Styrofoam polluting the beach. Shame.
Styrofoam is a non-biodegradable material and appears to last forever. This, combined with the fact that Styrofoam is lightweight and therefore floats, means that over time a great deal of polystyrene has accumulated along coasts and waterways around the world. Just like this piece, along with dozens of others, strewed over the beach I was at. According to the internet, Styrofoam is now considered the main component of marine debris.
Styrofoam is made of petroleum, which of course is a non-sustainable resource and creates heavy pollution. AND when you use Styrofoam for food, chemicals can leach into the food from the container. These chemicals can affect human health and reproductive systems.
Now obviously these are extremes and I do not know anyone who uses Styrofoam on a regular basis, however, in my opinion, using it at all is horrible and there are alternatives to using Styrofoam.
Living in Juba, where the only kind of recycling done is locals using water bottles for containers to sell milk or oils or fuel in. Other than that, most of the other trash gets thrown into a pile and burned or left there to rot. Originally it was difficult to come from home where we can recycle just about everything, to a place where recycling doesn't really exist. Now I am used to it, of course it still bothers me but there is not much I can do about it. We are polluting our world. Lets do what we can to reduce the pollution. Every little bit counts.
SAY NO TO STYROFOAM.
Seriously? You don't like styrofoam? LOL
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