Word: styrofoam
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...university now uses styrofoam cups, which tend to comprise landfills because they do not decay naturally. "The switch is a move toward the national direction of cooperation in the interest of ecology," says Benjamin Walcott, assistant director of dining hall services. The university, which uses more than 100,000 cups per week,will have to pay twice as much for the new cups,he said...
...Once one company switches, they all willswitch. I'd love to see us go back to paper," saidMalone. "I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturerssought out alternatives to styrofoam," saidWalcott
...have always preferred hot chocolate. Hot chocolate is warm and filling. It is a symbol, of winter days and sledding in the back yard with my older brother. Quite simply, hot chocolate is my youth, condensed and poured into one little styrofoam cup. Of course I prefer hot chocolate...
...slasher movies ("Woman opens the refrigerator, gets hit in the face with an ax. There's a common household accident, huh?"). Leno's P.G.-rated material is witty, accessible and firmly anchored in bedrock middle America. "I'm hopelessly American," he confesses. "If something doesn't come in a Styrofoam box with a lid on it, I'm lost...
Hungry drivers gobble breakfast, often an Egg McMuffin, from Styrofoam cartons and slurp coffee from no-slosh mugs. Others balance checkbooks, do crossword puzzles and dictate letters and grocery lists into pocket-size tape recorders. Hot summer weekends offer an opportunity for passengers to take partial charge of the car. Inching along to the approach to the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and Manhattan, occupants of cars without air conditioning who face delays of more than an hour hold the doors open for a little circulation...