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...move follows a national effort to stop theuse of foam products because they do not decomposeand because some foams contain chloroflourocarbons(CFC), a group of chemicals which erode the ozonelayer. Most foam cups do not contain CFC, but thechemicals are still used to produce industrialfoams. CFC is released during the manufacturingprocess and when foams are burned in municipalincinerators...
California, Rhode Island, Maine and Vermonthave passed, or are in the process of passing,legislation limiting the use of foam products inpublic places...
...Many fast food chains have switched, or arecontemplating a switch to paper," said Malone. Andat the local level, he said, "Tufts, hasconsidered foam but has stayed with paper. MIT hascut back on foam...
...Foam has been singled out as the culprit, butit isn't. The average life span of a landfill is10 years. If we got rid of all foam products, wewould only extend the life of a landfill by onemonth. The CFC resulting from foam products isonly one-one thousandth of 1 percent of thehazards to the ozone layer...
...French children can tune in a popular TV game show that has no American parallel. The program confronts young contestants with invidious English expressions that have infiltrated common parlance and invites them to concoct substitutes in their own language. Some of the prizewinning neologisms: for milkshake, mouslait (literally, milk foam); for hot dog, saucipain (sausage bread); for fast- food outlet, restapouce (quick-bite restaurant). Outsiders often dismiss such exercises as evidence of France's obsession with maintaining the purity of its beloved tongue, especially against the encroachments of Franglais. But lately the guardians of the linguistic heritage of Voltaire...