Styrofoam Ban in UP Diliman
I heard a month ago that the Styrofoam Ban in UP Diliman is already approved. So, I chose to eat lunch today, to see for myself if the food services in Shopping Center is following this rule already, and here’s what I saw :)
No more styrofoam.
Good Job!
A little knowledge about styrofoam why is it bad.
Well, little might you have known that Styrofoam cups don’t dissolve in the Earth eventually like other materials do. It just sits there. Useless. Taking up space. Therefore, it is negligent to the environment. You CAN recycle Styrofoam, like you can paper, but it is difficult to and takes a LONG time and is also hard to find someone who will actually do it. Styrofoam also lasts virtually forever, or at least much, much longer than we’ll live to be, vs. paper, where you can recycle it a lot easier and more and it will dissolve faster. This useless material ALSO contains CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons), which is very bad for the environment. In the end, Styrofoam is harmful to the Ozone. The Ozone, as you may know, is a form of oxygen containing three molecules (usually found in the stratosphere) and is responsible for filtering out much of the sun’s dangerous ultraviolet radiation – the stuff that we put on sunscreen for. See, if we use Styrofoam, slowly but surely, it ruins the Ozone layer. That means that we can get sunburn so much easier, which can lead to skin cancer and cataracts if you get too much of it. And sure, you can load yourself up with a lot more sunscreen, but if the Ozone layer gets to the point of degradation it’s headed to, that won’t do anything.
Most companies that sell their drinks in Styrofoam cups do it because it’s cheaper, but if that means hurting our children’s family in the future by the sun, which would you choose? [source]
good!
Foam is actually safer than paper. CFCs have been illegal since the late 80s. You are just perpetuating urban legends.
Your paper container will decay and rot giving off toxins contaminating the water table, methane, and other greenhouse gases. But that’s only if the landfill malfunctions, otherwise the paper container will never decay because that is what landfills are designed to do: prevent the leaching of toxins from decaying matter! Paper is environmentally malignant!
The foam will sit forever and do nothing; not environmentally negligent, but environmentally benign. Foam is as dangerous as pumice rock.