Word: styrofoam
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...carbon atoms, are nontoxic and inert, meaning they do not combine easily with other substances. Because they vaporize at low temperatures, CFCs are perfect as coolants in refrigerators and propellant gases for spray cans. Since CFCs are good insulators, they are standard ingredients in plastic-foam materials like Styrofoam. Best of all, the most commonly used CFCs are simple, and therefore cheap, to manufacture...
...other environmental concerns remain unaddressed. The University does not make public whether radon gas, an invisible cancer-causing agent, is a problem in Harvard buildings as it is in the basements of many homes nationwide. Despite campus agitation to remove styrofoam cups from the dining halls, the University continues to use the non-biodegradable materials...
...council also passed resolutions calling forthe return of a two-week shopping period,advocating energy conservation in Universitybuildings and urging Harvard to eliminate the useof styrofoam cups in dining halls...
...which was plastic, including 31,733 bags, 30,295 bottles and 15,631 six-pack yokes. Plastic trash is being found far out to sea. On a four-day trip from Maryland to Florida that ranged 100 miles offshore, John Hardy, an Oregon State University marine biologist, spotted "Styrofoam and other plastic on the surface, most of the whole cruise...
...were in fact skilled amateur magicians. With Randi's connivance, they had been planted in the lab -- which soon lost its funding and closed down. And when a psychic demonstrated on a TV show that he could mentally cause pages of a book to flip, Randi sprinkled bits of Styrofoam around the opened book and asked for a repeat performance. The psychic, who had been unobtrusively exhaling through his lips to turn the pages, balked, all too aware that flying Styrofoam would literally blow...