You know it as
Styrofoam.
Polystyrene's Versatile Properties Include :
Its Shortcomings:
Its use in our everyday
life is quite
common and although it poses a serious
environmental problem for our
future on this
planet, its still in use.
Restaurants serve their
take-out meals in
clamshell packaging and nearly everything
shipped in a
box is
molded in polystyrene. We have become
dependent on it without thinking about the further
effect it may have on the
earth.