Styrofoam: The Infinite form of waste or is it?


Styrofoam: The Infinite Form Of Waste Or Is It?
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/despite-two-bans-styrofoam-trash-still-plagues-haiti/

          We use Styrofoam in our everyday lives. It may be a coffee one may be drinking to plates of food at a family gathering to prevent from washing dishes. No matter what, we have crossed paths with it in one way or the other. Indeed, it may seem great to keep something hot or provide many people with food, but what really happens after it is used? Most likely it ends up in the trash and further into landfills which according to Joe McCarthy, takes up around 30% of global landfill space. Infact, in his article, McCarthy talked about Styrofoam taking 500 years to decompose and a group of teens coming up with an innovative idea to recycle Styrofoam.1
          Due to the response of the amount of plastic pollution found at a trip to Central America, Luke Clay thought about overcoming this problem and so he and two friends, Ashton Cofer, and Julia Bray found a way to do so. With 50 hours of lab work, the trio discovered a way to extract carbon from the Styrofoam and this could make water filters cost effective. Infact, the more than 2.1 billion people that lack water in the world could refresh to this possibility.













1.https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/teens-recycling-styrofoam-carbon-water-purificatio/?newReg=true#action

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