Our Selfishness Floating in the Ocean, Styrofoam!
WWF(World Wide Fund for Nature) released a report titled ‘No Plastic in Nature: Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People’ with the University of Newcastle in Australia. The research says that there is plenty of microplastic in water and foods we eat every day. The astonishing finding that each one of us intakes approximately 2,000 pieces of microplastic every week has brought people’s attention even more closely to the marine waste issue. Furthermore, it is also reported that polystyrene has been detected the most among the microplastic found in the seafoods. Let’s find out more details about this material. What is Polystyrene? <Different types of Polystyrene> Polystyrene is generally classified into 3 different types; regular polystyrene, high-impact polystyrene, and expanded polystyrene. Regular polystyrene is used for transparent cases, insulation in construction, food and other packaging containers while high-impact polystyrene is for cases for electronic...