Stop using harmful styrofoam.

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Barack Obama

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Styrofoam is harmful in many ways. We use it far too often we use it for food containers, cups, insulation, and packaging.

First of all, when used to keep food in the chemicals leach into the food, affecting human health and reproductive systems. For example when I have leftovers from a restaurant I take them home, usually in a styrofoam container, then I microwave it in the styrofoam, which also causes the chemicals to go into the food.

Secondly, it pollutes the environment. Making it sends dangerous gasses into the atmosphere. Along with polluting the air styrofoam pollutes the rest of the environment since, being plastic, it isn't biodegradable.

Styrofoam is not recyclable, it's harmful to humans, and it's harmful to the environment. We need to stop using styrofoam before it ruins the earth.

We the undersigned believe that it is everyone's responsibility to keep our planet clean.

Styrofoam is one of the most harmful substances that we use. It is used for food containers, insulation, and packaging.

It's a plastic so it isn't biodegradable. Twenty-five to thirty percent of landfills are plastics, that's because they take five hundred to a thousand years to break down.

Another thing about styrofoam is that when it is made harmful chemicals are released into the atmosphere causing many health problems to humans and animals.

Lastly, when styrofoam is used with food the chemicals leach into the food causing serious health problems that mainly affect the reproductive system.

We need your help to stop the use of styrofoam and it's harmful effects on our environment. Sometimes all it takes is a voice, one voice that becomes a hundred, then a thousand, unless it's silenced.

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We signed the "Stop using harmful styrofoam." petition!

# 58:

8:35 am PDT, Oct 8, Brett Rubbo, Texas
We need to find an alteritive to foam because its killing our enviroment.

# 57:

4:46 pm PDT, Sep 24, Matthew McCoy, Arizona
Please impose a Food Service Waste Reduction Act!!!!!!!!!

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1:59 pm PDT, Sep 23, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin

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1:31 pm PDT, Sep 21, Keavy Mangan, California

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10:34 am PDT, Sep 20, Jamie Mize, Georgia

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7:40 am PDT, Sep 19, Caitlin Mahnken, Oklahoma
Styrofoam is not only bad for US its bad for the ENVIRONMENT!!! Why WOULD we use it!

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8:10 am PDT, Sep 3, Delliana Of the Sea, Colorado

# 48:

12:30 pm PDT, Aug 29, Jeremy Soule, California
There are several alternatives to Styrofoam for restaurants, along with corporate and consumer use. Let's stop being lazy and get responsible.

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5:30 pm PDT, Aug 20, Shawnamarie Murray MD, New Hampshire
READ CRADLE TO CRADLE

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1:36 pm PDT, Jul 30, Andi Alnwick, New York

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5:56 am PDT, Jul 30, Jacqueline Robinson, Georgia
Use biodegrabale products for packaging not styrofoam that is toxic for us and the environment.

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5:29 am PDT, Jul 30, Suzanna Van der Voort, Netherlands

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