Since the school cafeteria is not always the best choice for dining, I often find myself ordering take-out. The thing with that is, the food always comes in a container. Often, those containers "takes massive amounts of energy to create, and much of it doesn’t properly decompose." From styrofoam to edible ice-cream cones, this great article examines how "green" your takeaway container is.
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I'm like you monina, I eat out far way to much than I should, but it never really occured to me how much styrofoam I go through within a week. It's kind of disgusting when you really think about it.
This post reminded me of some articles about styrofoam and how many cities were trying to ban them from restaurants. Seattle had what they call the Styrofoam ban. Portland, way back in 1990, McDonald's took the city to court because of Portland's ban on styrofoam. McDonalds lost and changed the way their products are packaged and also created a styrofoam recycling program.
I'm not big on the green movement because It feels like this is some trend that the hip kids started. Yes, we needed to get awareness out about what we can change or do to help our environment but then it started out to be everything was green and everything was about the green movement. I believe that this is something that you should already do, for instance something simple like recycling or car pooling or want to do because its good for your environment.
I have been following up on Project H designs by Emily Pilloton. Emily does design for social change and I have read her anti-manifesto. In her ant-manifesto she states "We need to get over "going green" and to enlist a new generation of design activists. We need big hearts, bigger business sense, and even bigger balls." She goes on to explain that "green design" is here and brought to our attention and as designers we need to move on to focus on other issues and lay off the green. She is not telling us to stop green design but continue to design green but within a couple of years everything will be designed green and it won't be this big trend.
There are other options just like this article states that will eventually replace the styrofoam. Many cities are already throwing out styrofoam and replacing it with these other options that are better for our environment. Within years I think everyone will in time replace this and start to catch on.
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