Dave Van Slyke Authors Blog for American College of Environmental Lawyers
...To the Oceans White with (Styro) Foam
Styrofoam containers have many advantages over alternatives – they are comparatively easy to manufacture, light (cost-effective to ship), relatively durable, have good insulating qualities and (by some measures) are lower in production impacts – they are among the most common sources of litter in the United States, found “[f]rom the mountains to the prairies….”
On April 30, 2019, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law An Act to Prohibit the Use of Certain Disposable Food Service Containers, making Maine the first state in the nation to ban polystyrene foam (more commonly called Styrofoam) use in disposable food service containers. The law goes into effect on January 1, 2021.
Read the full blog post on the American College of Environmental Lawyers website.