PHILIPSBURG:--- Nature Foundation encourages the community to stop using Styrofoam containers, cups, and other Styrofoam food packaging. Styrofoam has become widely accepted as an everyday product for food packaging and insulating food and beverages from heat or cold. However, many people do not realize that it is made from polystyrene, a petroleum-based plastic made of highly toxic substances that are non-sustainable and heavily polluting. Styrofoam is non-biodegradable, meaning it can last in the environment forever. Due to its lightweight nature, floatability, and likelihood to be blown from disposal sites, Styrofoam commonly ends up along coastlines and waterways around the
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