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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unsustainable amount of single- use plastics that Americans use every day terrifies me: 150 million tons of plastic produced each year are used only once, and the problem continues to worsen.

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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 ...

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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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 ...

It’s easy to save Styrofoam cups, carryout containers and packing materials as heirlooms for our great-great-great-great-...grandchildren. We simply need to write a message on them and put them in the ...