Word: styrofoam
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...triple the cost to itself, the University decided to replace styrofoam cups in the dining halls with biodegradable paper cups in the spring of 1989. The decision came after a major campaign led by the revitalized EAC, now one of the largest committees of the Phillips Brooks House...
...raisers, which lobbied successfully last year for the passage of the state's first air- quality law. In New Jersey the social-studies class of teacher Karl Stehle at West Milford High School scored its first environmental victory last year when it persuaded the school board to switch from Styrofoam trays to old- fashioned washable dishes; since then the students have joined nationwide groups like Kids Against Pollution, have protested McDonald's recycling practices, and are raising money to buy 300 acres of rain forest in Belize. Says Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee: "Just in the past few years, people...
Maraniss, 40, who worries about the damage that beach litter does to marine life, promotes her cause at churches, schools, clubs and conferences. Her message seems to be getting through. At least one oil company has banned Styrofoam cups on its drilling rigs in the Gulf. And next year Texas will require codes on plastic bottles to identify the type of material they are made of, a measure that will make recycling easier...
...High School in North Carolina, and most students are thinking about the food piling up on their trays. Not Brian Styers, a 16- year-old honors student. He is thinking about the trays themselves -- and the nondegradable plastic used to make them. Bothered by the fact that school- issued Styrofoam trays, plates and cups were choking the local landfill, Styers and a dozen or so like-minded students began marching through the cafeteria earlier this year carrying reusable dishes brought from home. They were branded "tree huggers" and "crazy," but Styers and his friends persisted. They did their homework, figuring...
...short-run, the hype surrounding Earth Day might do some good. The environmental movement, which once had a reputation for attracting only fringe liberals, has truly moved into the mainstream. Most Americans probably now know that styrofoam is bad and trees are good, that natural resources are not inexhaustable and that the garbage they put out on the curb is part and parcel of "the solid waste problem...