Is your favorite restaraunt still sending you home with Expanded Polystyrene Foam (Styrofoam) boxes full of leftovers or take out food? Or is your favorite coffee shop still serving you lattes in styrofoam cups? Have you ever asked them why they are still using something that is so bad for the environment or potential hazardous to your health. Why aren't they using something bio-degradable? For most companies, particularly the larger ones, the answer always seems to be money. While styrofoam cups may be a little cheaper than 100% biodegradable products, how is a matter of nickels and dimes more important than the social cost of styrofoam in our environment. Polystyrene takes a very long time to biodegrade, and because of its many uses, what we need to be focusing on is how to not put more styrofoam into the environment.
Many cities across the country have banned styrofoam cups and styrofoam "to-go" boxes in their restaurants. Oakland, Berkeley, Portland, Santa Monica, Santa Cruz, Seattle, and San Fransisco are just some of the cities that have recently banned styrofoam. Isn't it time that Ann Arbor do the same.
If you want to try to convince your favorite restaurant, deli, or coffee shop to stop using products made out of styrofoam, come in to Bgreen and ask for some samples. Some businesses prefer to listen to their customers rather than sales people. We will happily give you all the information you need to try to convince the local businesses to do this!
Bgreen currently supplies a number of local restaurants with bio-degradable take out containers, its time we get them all!
Bgreen, Inc. is located at 1952 South Industrial Hwy, (in the colonial lanes plaza)
