Comments on: Los Angeles County to Ban Styrofoam http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/los-angeles-county-to-ban-styrofoam/ Keetsa! Blog is about eco-friendly and green stuff. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:51:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: jon http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/los-angeles-county-to-ban-styrofoam/comment-page-1/#comment-10663 jon Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:12:06 +0000 http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/los-angeles-county-to-ban-styrofoam/#comment-10663 its about time its about time

]]> By: JT http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/los-angeles-county-to-ban-styrofoam/comment-page-1/#comment-10134 JT Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:26:39 +0000 http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/los-angeles-county-to-ban-styrofoam/#comment-10134 Hey...this is such a great post...I am definately a proponant for removing styrofoam products...Styrofoam shouldn't be made illegal...but removing consumer products such as throw away dishware...and using an alternative packing resource could help cut down on the harmful effects of styrofoam to the environment big time. It does have good uses in insulation, however, but styrofoam that ends up in landfills does not bio-degrade and is made from oil (a non-renewable energy source) so bravo to this post and read a little further...this is stuff more people should know about. Each year in the United States (US), approximately “60 billion cups, 20 billion eating utensils and 25 billion plates”, all disposable, are used and sent to landfills and incinerators. It would be interesting to speculate on the amount of compost that could be made if all of these were compostable-biodegradable. With the numbers of disposable dishware being so high, even a slight reduction would be beneficial. Biodegradable products can reduce the mass of the landfill by as much as 30% (Polar Gruppen, North America (PGNA)11).<a href="http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infowast/watgreen/projects/library/f03biodegradeablesatstjeromes.pdf" rel="nofollow">Biodegradable Alternatives for Styrofoam and Plastics - A Study at St. Jerome’s</a> Hey…this is such a great post…I am definately a proponant for removing styrofoam products…Styrofoam shouldn’t be made illegal…but removing consumer products such as throw away dishware…and using an alternative packing resource could help cut down on the harmful effects of styrofoam to the environment big time. It does have good uses in insulation, however, but styrofoam that ends up in landfills does not bio-degrade and is made from oil (a non-renewable energy source) so bravo to this post and read a little further…this is stuff more people should know about.

Each year in the United States (US), approximately “60 billion cups, 20 billion eating utensils and 25 billion plates”, all disposable, are used and sent to landfills and incinerators. It would be interesting to speculate on the amount of compost that could be made if all of these were compostable-biodegradable. With the numbers of disposable dishware being so high, even a slight reduction would be beneficial. Biodegradable products can reduce the mass of the landfill by as much as 30% (Polar Gruppen, North America (PGNA)11).Biodegradable Alternatives for Styrofoam and Plastics – A Study at St. Jerome’s

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