This summer, Environment Massachusetts is working on a campaign to prioritize our Wildlife Over Waste by eliminating polystyrene foam cups and containers here in MA.

Every day people are throwing away tons of single-use cups, containers and other plastic “stuff.” Among the worst forms of plastic pollution is polystyrene foam (the stuff most of us call Styrofoam), which never fully degrades.

Nothing we use for a few minutes should be allowed to pollute our oceans and rivers and threaten wildlife for centuries. Already, 27 towns and cities in MA have passed some sort of ban on polystyrene. But there's still more work to be done!

That’s why we’re calling on state leaders to ban take-out foam cups and containers.

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