Petition: Styrofoam is terrible for our environment and our kids, let's get it out of Montgomery County, MD cafeterias.

To:
Joshua Starr, Superintendent Montgomery County Public Schools
Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery County Board of Education
Marla Caplon, Food Services Director
Tonya Faulkner, Office of Procurement 

Stop using styrofoam trays in Montgomery County Public Schools.

Styrofoam is terrible for our environment and our kids, let's get it out of Montgomery County cafeterias.



An EPA report on solid waste named the polystyrene manufacturing process as the 5th largest creator of hazardous waste. The process of making polystyrene pollutes the air and creates large amounts of liquid and solid waste, including greenhouse gas and harmful to the ozone layer.


Toxic chemicals leach out of these products into the food that they contain (especially when heated in a microwave). These chemicals threaten human health and reproductive systems.


These products are made with petroleum, a non-sustainable and heavily polluting resource.

Read more here: http://soulobvious.com/foam-thought/

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