Lets ban Styrofoam together

Have you ever been at the beach and noticed all the tiny pieces of Styrofoam in the sand?

Or, have you ever worked to clean up a beach only to realize that nothing you could ever do would remove all those little pieces? Not to mention our land fill.That's why we need to ban single-use Styrofoam containers.

Join me and thousands of others who have called on the governor to back legislation that bans single-use Styrofoam containers, today.

Why not just ask the fast-food chains to use bio-degradable takeout containers? It just seems crazy that we would use something for 10 minutes and then have it float in the ocean, or lie in the sand, for hundreds and hundreds of years.

The benefits simply do not outweigh the costs.

Styrofoam (expanded and extruded polystyrene foam) is getting more and more pervasive in the marine environment. When littered or blown from trashcans, it is carried from streets and through storm drains out into the ocean. It breaks into smaller and smaller pieces that wash onto the shore, and which animals mistake for food.

Styrofoam has not been around long enough to know its true life. Most scientists agree that it will degrade to increasingly smaller sizes but never disappear.

Let's ban single-use Styrofoam takeout containers before they cause any more damage. Please write a response, its so quick and easy, to tell the governor that you want to take back your beaches.