Why Stop Using Styrofoam?

Styrofoam is inherently evil.
Previously, it was doubly evil, now it's just singularly so. Doubly because it was made with CFCs, the main agent that ate the ozone layer.
They stopped making styrofoam with CFCs, and now they just use air.
But styrofoam is evil because it will never go away: never decompose, never biodegrade, it will always be there.
Forever.
Forever-ever.
Forever-ever-ever.

How this blog started

B and I were in downtown Seattle the other day, when we decided to stop into a tiny sushi shop for a late lunch. It was a quiet, mom & pop place, an older Korean couple who cutely repeated the order to each other. As we waited for our catepillar roll, I said to B, "I hope they don't put it in a styrofoam container". We'd recently been watching our consumption habits and how often we just use one thing once and throw it away. We'd also been batting about the ideas of two blogs, "Re-use! Everything! Now!" and "Reusable Chopsticks Now!", as well as guerrilla campaigns to get our favorite sushi places to switch to reusable chopsticks.

B surveyed the tiny shop. "Every item of packaging behind that counter is styrofoam," we replied. Sure enough, a minute later, our catepillar roll arrived in a single styrofoam box....

Notes on website

what's wrong with styrofoam?
Alternatives to Styrofoam?
Information in other languages? Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish.

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