Sentences with phrase «as styrofoam cups»

Currently, there are a number of local units of government across the state that have taken action to implement additional taxes and fees on businesses that not only use plastic bags, and auxiliary containers such as Styrofoam cups and cardboard boxes.

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Disposable diapers are more convenient, it's a fact, as are styrofoam plates & cups, plastic water bottles, maxi pads and grocery bags.

You can also save some pennies when you BYO thermos or tumbler rather than buying drinks served in disposable cups, such as Styrofoam or Solo cups, which generally have a lifetime span of half an hour.

You also want to avoid the use of Styrofoam cups as that will leach polystyrene molecules.

The phasing out of plastic shopping bags and Styrofoam and plastic food utensils, such as clamshells, flat plates and cups, is a necessary pollution control measure to protect the terrestrial and marine environment from harmful plastic contamination.

In 2009, Donovan's mid-career retrospective sprawled through six galleries at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, where piles of buttons coalesced into eerie stalagmites, loops of polyester film swirled inside glass as if floating in a luminous aquarium, and more than one million 7 - ounce Styrofoam cups were transfigured into a massive billow of clouds that hovered above.

But, if we were to put a styrofoam cup of water into our pot of water, turn the electric burner on and then turn it off, we might get an average temperature for the water in the cup and the water it floats in that behaves as your calculation does.

«Expanded polystyrene foam — better known as Styrofoam — fragments and is virtually impossible to clean up, yet Americans are still using 25 billion cups made from this plastic every year,» said Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director of 5 Gyres.

Americans use more than 25 billion expanded polystyrene foam — better known as «Styrofoam» — cups each year, and many lids are made from the same plastic.

Then there's the added energy cost of production, packaging, and transporting to stores and homes and away to landfill, where disposable plates and cups — which can be made of plastic, Styrofoam, virgin wood fibers, plastic - coated paper, post-consumer recycled fibers, or agricultural waste products such as bagasse, and are usually non-recyclable because they are contaminated with food residue — will sit for hundreds of years, slowly decomposing and releasing methane gas.

Unfortunately, this can result in excessive amounts of waste, as many hosts set out piles of Styrofoam plates, plastic cutlery, and plastic cups in order to reduce the amount of cleanup and broken glasses in the backyard.

I wondered if he'd find it as watered - down as I did, then I wondered if he wondered if I was a snob, sulking over my styrofoam cup while longing for a latte.