Comments on: Styrofoam Spill http://www.badlegemu.com/politic-environment/styrofoam-spill Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:50:53 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Vicki E. http://www.badlegemu.com/politic-environment/styrofoam-spill/comment-page-1#comment-470 Vicki E. Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:50:53 +0000 http://www.badlegemu.com/?p=572#comment-470 Some education about the toxicity of styrofoam does seem in order. Having picked up many tiny bits of styrofoam at the beach, your frustration is something I have experienced first hand. More evidence that people are completely unaware that the consequences of their actions are killing the whole planet - toxic plastic gyres in the oceans, styrofoam that never degrades, producing paper from trees, non-renewable, polluting fossil fuels...the list goes on. One step at a time, like your story of pennies on BART, we can only hope to chip away at this ignorance and replace it with awareness. All very good in theory, but how to accomplish? In SF we have a Department for the Environment, and I bet they have some info on styrofoam that you could share with your teenaged neighbor. San Fran outlawed styrofoam to-go containers in the city, but the world at large is still able to produce it, and that is what needs to be illegal. Pennies to pick up again. Now many food establishments pack to-go food into plastic, another ecological offense, and another penny to pick up in the future... Some education about the toxicity of styrofoam does seem in order.

Having picked up many tiny bits of styrofoam at the beach, your frustration is something I have experienced first hand.

More evidence that people are completely unaware that the consequences of their actions are killing the whole planet – toxic plastic gyres in the oceans, styrofoam that never degrades, producing paper from trees, non-renewable, polluting fossil fuels…the list goes on.

One step at a time, like your story of pennies on BART, we can only hope to chip away at this ignorance and replace it with awareness. All very good in theory, but how to accomplish?

In SF we have a Department for the Environment, and I bet they have some info on styrofoam that you could share with your teenaged neighbor. San Fran outlawed styrofoam to-go containers in the city, but the world at large is still able to produce it, and that is what needs to be illegal. Pennies to pick up again.

Now many food establishments pack to-go food into plastic, another ecological offense, and another penny to pick up in the future…

]]> By: neil maclean http://www.badlegemu.com/politic-environment/styrofoam-spill/comment-page-1#comment-308 neil maclean Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:50:56 +0000 http://www.badlegemu.com/?p=572#comment-308 Hi Marlo, I saw the video of the fire you posted, plus this "minor" disaster. It reminds me of the women, Mary Crowly, who came to the parking lot at Coit Tower to talk about being a skipper in the Sausalito Indian Navy. She told me that what she is doing now is going out to the island of plastic in the Pacific with a plastic digestor on board that she says turns the stuff into compost. wish I had one of those. Neil Hi Marlo,
I saw the video of the fire you posted, plus this “minor” disaster.
It reminds me of the women, Mary Crowly, who came to the parking lot at Coit Tower to talk about being a skipper in the Sausalito Indian Navy. She told me that what she is doing now is going out to the island of plastic in the Pacific with a plastic digestor on board that she says turns the stuff into compost.

wish I had one of those.
Neil

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