Why should Styrofoam be banned?
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Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) or Styrofoam, is a petroleum-based non-biodegradable foam, which the EPA and International Agency for Research on Cancer consider styrene a "possible human carcinogen" and "that such materials can have serious impacts upon human health, wildlife, and aquatic environment, and the economy.
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