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Styrofoam Sucks!!

by Starre Vartan · 06/29/07

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Cause you can make only so many goofy art projects out of old styrofoam….

The kiddie set gets active about protesting the over 4 million styrofoam trays used in NYC schools in this great NYTimes video.

As the footage mentions, McDonald’s stopped using syrofoam 17 years ago…why are the NYC public schools so far behind, especially after Bloomberg’s PlaNYC promises to green New York City by 2030? For those who don’t know, styrofoam is not great for the environment, for a few reasons, including toxicity to people (especially when heated) and the air.

My favorite part of the video is definitely all the little kids chanting “Styrofoam Sucks!” and holding protest signs. Cute and awesome.

Tags farm, Home, kids, New York City, NYC, NYTimes, schools, video

Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

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