styrofoam
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Los Angeles Votes to Ditch Styrofoam With Citywide Ban
Los Angeles officials voted to ban styrofoam and other single-use plastics on Thursday in a move to become a “zero waste” city. The 12 city council members who were present at the meeting voted unanimously in favour of the ban, prohibiting the distribution and sale of expanded polystyrene products, more commonly known as Styrofoam.
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Styrofoam-Chomping Mealworms Can Help Solve Our Rubbish Problem
Styrofoam: Cheap, convenient, and the bane of environmentalists. Americans throw away 2.5 billion foam cups every year, and the damn things just sit in landfills for millennia. Unless, that is, you sic a bunch of hungry mealworms on them.
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Fly 40,000m Over Los Angeles In A Styrofoam Box
Colin Rich builds mini-spaceships out of styrofoam, foil, modified off-the-shelf cameras and weather balloons that carry them to the edge of space. For his third craft, the payload included sensors to measure radiation from Fukushima and pollution. It’s hipster NASA.