Word: styrofoam
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...suddenly, as if manna from heaven, the solution to these problems stared me right in the face from the bottom of the styrofoam quarter-pounder with cheese package. Two pickles lay dead in a smear of ketchup and mustard, offering up their lives to improve the rest of the world...
...tossed into the oceans every day. Commercial fishermen are also major offenders. Estimates of the plastic fishing gear lost or discarded at sea every year range as high as 150,000 tons. Boaters and beachgoers add to the marine litter with six-pack yokes, picnic utensils, sandwich bags and Styrofoam cups. Cities and industries discharging waste directly into the water or dumping it at sea are also to blame. On some East Coast beaches near sewage outlets, so many plastic tampon inserters have washed ashore that residents refer to them as "beach whistles...
Encasing eggs in such materials as styrofoam, Jell-O, cotton, balloons, and even a dead chicken, a few students succeeded in hitting a bull's-eye five stories down--with their eggs intact...
...several styrofoam cups...
...Harvard administration should help support alternate ways of attracting people to campus-wide parties, now that the era of the open keg is over. Providing funds for live music is an example. The Talking Heads or The Del Fuegos would be acceptable substitutes for a styrofoam cup of warm beer. University support on the advertising of campus-wide parties would be another way of filling the alcohol void...