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Which is worse for the environment - styrofoam cups or plastic cups?
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∙ 14y ago
I would say styrofoam as they would seem easier for birds etc. to pick it apart and eat.
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Are foam cups good or bad for the environment?
I would say they are bad. Not only by the liter they create but animals can injest them and it can be instant death. I had a puppy a few years back that died and after the vet checked into in his dijestive thack was stopped uo with chewed up styrofoam foro a foam plate he chewed up during the night. Another way to look at it is that people who let their dogs eat anything they want and don't get them to the vet before they suffer and die should worry more about their dogs and less about their choice in disposable containers. I'm very sorry to read about your puppy, and indeed eating plastic is a big killer of animals. As well as this, disposable plastic foam cups are very wasteful of their materials and process-fuel even if salvageable, whereas a rigid plastic, metal, ceramic or glass drinking-vessel will last indefinitely. And metal is re-usable.
When was the Styrofoam cup invented?
The actual first producer of Styrofoam cups is unknown, but they were licensed by the Dow Chemical Company. One design for the cup was patented by Warren R. Price and Alexander S. Houston, of the Waxed Paper Company on May 9, 1957. A major manufacturer of these cups since the late 1950's is the Dart Container Corporation of Mason, Michigan. Dart also made foam bowls beginning in 1969. Swedish inventor Carl Georg Munters first created closed-cell polyurethane foam in the early 1930's, and the process was rediscovered in 1941 by a Dow team led by Ray McIntire. Dow acquired the patents and trademarked the name Styrofoam.
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What type of cup will keep water the coldest a styrofoam cup or plastic cup?
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Putting the cup in the freezer keeps ice from melting. Those cups will slow down the melting rate, but if you've got ice at room temperature it's gonna melt eventually. Having said that, ice will melt slowest in a styrofoam cup.
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