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So we all know about how bad plastic and plastic containers are, but what's the /v/erdict on styrofoam? this little material seems to have flown under the radar, especially since it's used so much for all types of food - liquids, solids, hot, warm, cold, foods you eat with your ands, and some foods you poke and poke the styrofoam with with a fork, etc. I'm ready to be fully redpilled.

>> No.18984616

>>18984607
If you microwave it your food gets healthy omegas.

>> No.18984661

>>18984607
I occasionally clean up local beaches from garbage and styrofoam is my #1 priority. There's a lot of it floating around and unchecked it breaks into the single pellets it gets way harder to clean up.

>> No.18984696

It's horrible for the environment and if you microwave your food in it, your chance of contracting ass cancer dramatically increases, not even kidding. But it's cheap and China can make it for pennies to the box, so no one gives a shit. Climate environmentalists and vegans will wail on ranchers for raising cows for slaughter, but do jack shit in terms of what is really causing the issues

>> No.18984795

>>18984607
>so we know how bad plastic is
>BUT WHAT ABOUT PLASTIC?

>> No.18984801

>>1898407
Its banned in my state (Maine).

>> No.18984819

>>18984607
I burn it along with my other trash

>> No.18984851
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18984851

i will never forgive mcnaldos for getting rid of these. the cardboard ones are fucking gay.

>> No.18984856

>>18984661
soon to banned in commifornia
we already lost plastic single use bags
and plastic straws (due to a single pic of a straw in a turtles nose)

soon we will need to bring our own plates when buying fast food

>> No.18984891

>>18984856
I'm surprised that isn't a thing yet. They sell plastic food containers like what you can get from take out, I bet some startup in Cali will eventually be BYOP in the future, then it will catch on and be enforced state wide.

>> No.18984943

>>18984891
me too anon, time will tell when the ban takes effect
I agree and do expect some smart startup entrepreneurs will produce a coated non absorbing paper container, like the common four drink holder, and make bank

>> No.18985216

>>18984696
What about food or drink that’s piping hot in them? Like coffee or some chocolate drink that the Mexican places sell and are in styrofoam cups?

>> No.18985883

>>18984607
>So we all know about how bad plastic and plastic containers are,
they aren't.

>> No.18985890

>>18985883
Yes they are anon. If my state bans plastic bags then that will stop china and india from flooding the oceans with fifty million tons of plastic every year.

>> No.18986031

>>18984856
Imagine trying to politicize the banning of single use plastics. Are you in favor of microplastic endocrine disruptors in the water supply?

>> No.18986586

>>18985216
Bad but not quite, because a microwave literally shoots microwave radiation thru the Styrofoam. A hot drink will just raise the temp superficially. Then again I'm always a sucker for horchata served in styrofoam so who cares

>> No.18986643

I don't like it because the styrafoam absorbs all my liquids and greases from the food, so I'm "losing" food that way.

yeah, its a tiny amount, I'm still OCD about that.

>> No.18986677

>>18986643
Don't worry, anything served in styrofoam isn't real food.

>> No.18986849

>>18986586
i care because i don't want cancer :(

>> No.18986953

>>18986849
Bro, I really don't want to hurt you or burst your bubble, but cancer is a fickle and blind bastard. My aunt was a soccer pro, and just about the healthiest person ever. No drink no smoke etc etc. Taught soccer, always in shape. This year is the 5th year since her passing from cancer. What I'm trying to say is, if you're gonna let some fucking styrofoam prevent you from living a good, fulfilled life, you're doing it wrong.

Tl;dr hot cocoa in styrofoam is OK on the weekends

>> No.18987127

>>18986031
The alternatives still use just as much or more plastic, but are less convenient and more expensive. Those thicker "reusable" plastic bags each contain as much plastic as a few hundred of the thin disposable ones. Are most people going to use their reusable bag 300 times? Of course not. I have dozens of those reusable bags at my house because I go to the store without a bag much more frequently than I wear through one. It's absolutely generating much more plastic waste than the amount of disposable bags I used to go through. Plus, I used to reuse the little plastic bags as liners for my little trash cans and for cleaning up the poops of my guinea pigs. Now I just buy disposable plastic bags on Amazon for those purposes. So I still go through and throw away as many disposable bags as before anyway, in addition to wasting dozens of thicker bags which each equal hundreds of smaller bags worth of plastic. And all of this costs me extra money, and pollutes the environment more to ship.

And why should this topic be politicized: because anyone who evaluates this policy rationally, based on its outcome, can see why it's retarded in literally every way. But things like this happen because liberals (women) only enact policies based on emotions and feelings. This needs to be discussed.

>> No.18987399

>>18985883
nice try bot

>> No.18987403

>>18984856
styrofoam's been banned here for like 20 years. you don't miss it.

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18987601

>>18984607
>Not my problem

>> No.18987928

>>18984607
Flown under the radar? It was banned in most jurisdictions in the 90s.

>> No.18988016

>>18987127
If I have tons of stuff to buy I bother to take a large bag.
If I don't I just don't pay for the bag in self-checkout.

>> No.18988033

Styrofoam is great. It's why I go to chic fil a alot because all their drinks are in Styrofoam which helps insulate.

All my takeout is in Styrofoam. You can microwave it but don't too much or it will melt the bottom where the food is. People here are scare mongers or trolls.

>> No.18988057

>>18986586
microwave radiation is non ionizing, retard

>> No.18988060

>>18985216
>What about food or drink that’s piping hot in them? Like coffee or some chocolate drink
you sit down at the restaurant and eat from their ceramic/porcelain/glass dishes
>but they dont have those
stop eating at trashy places then

>> No.18988079

All I know about styrofoam is that some people mix it with gasoline for fire purposes

>> No.18988087

>>18988079
Yeah, napalm. You can even do a super soaker mod with it. Good for firework events and scaring the homeless subhumans.

>> No.18988104

>>18985883
>vegans order synthetic seed oil mash burgers, eat half, and put it in a plastic disposable container to help the environment

>> No.18988109

>>18984856
>Plastic bag bad
>Used drug syringe with aids good

>> No.18988466

>>18984607
>/v/erdict on styrofoam?
It always scares me a little when I see it's melted (hot food).

>> No.18988514

>>18984851
>tfw you will never go back to this
>the world you grew up in no longer exists

McDondald was just better when this was the packaging. Before they switched to peanut oil, before most shit like the pancakes just came frozen and got reheated.

>> No.18988522

>>18986953
Sorry to break it to you anon but your aunt likely died of cancer due to the turf that's used in soccer fields. It's made from recycled petroleum products. Highly carcinogenic to the point that it's getting banned in most places now. Back in the day they just said fuck it though and ground up whatever old shit they could find to recycle it into turf.
It's an actual phenomenon. Google "womens soccer cancer turf" or some other bullshit phrase to read up on it. First result obviously will say there's no link, based on a study funded by (((big oil))), but the evidence speaks for itself.

>> No.18988524

i just want the hot side hot and the cool side cool

>> No.18988580

>>18988514
>McDondald was just better
Yeah... SUPER low bar to clear.

>> No.18988588

Styrofoam is plastic, you absolute idiots. Holy fuck.

>> No.18988592

>>18984661
based

>> No.18988594

>>18988580
Okay. And?

>> No.18988615

>>18988466
Jesus, the decline of man. What a pussy and you advertise that here for us to insult you.

>> No.18988656

>>18988522
Oh......... I see...........

>> No.18988929
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18988929

>>18988594
It's like saying "my sister's va-jay-jay tastes way better once she started washing it".
McDonald's was never great, the best they could ever hope for was "good enough".
There is no "and". I stated my case, so sorry if you just don't understand basic English.

>> No.18988946

>>18988929
Police is an overreaction but the peon workers should be reprimanded or fired. Good on them.

>> No.18988972

>>18988929
Okay. And?

>> No.18989059

>>18984661
God-fucking-speed anon
>Verification not required

>> No.18989069

>>18988104
The level of displacement you people have to do to bring differing lifestyles down to a level where you can feel superior again is unreal
Seek help

>> No.18989078

>>18984607
The publically stated reason that it is getting impossible to find in developed countries is because its awful for the environment and carcinogenic. The real reason its being wiped out is because the government fears what a bunch of pissed off muslims/white people/current_day_threat.exe would do with an unlimited supply of sticky napalm.

>> No.18989118

>>18989069
plastic bad

>> No.18989284

>>18989118
DX cry more wuss

>> No.18989293

>>18989284
ehh?

>> No.18989575

>>18988615
>What a pussy
OK, I guess it must be really nice to be a chemical engineer, and understand whether or not melted styrofoam is cutting years off your life? No matter what, about half of us are going to die of cancer, and while you're in your death-throes, you going have to wonder whether it was the melted styrofoam that killed you or (in your case) all the semen you swallowed.
Fuck's sake, all the idiots I have to share this planet with, there must not be a loving, caring God.

>> No.18989596

>>18984661
based citizenposting

>> No.18990355

>>18988656
You mocking me, boy?

>> No.18990365

>>18989078
nigga it's still everywhere, where the fuck is it banned?

>inb4 the usa and england aren't first world!!111