On Aug 5, 12:42*pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> "Tracy" > wrote
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> > Whenever I do see styrofoam I just have to shake my head. There is really
> > no reason for it anymore.
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> It must be cheaper to produce. I see it at the dollar stores, the plates and
> cups and bowls when I take one of my elderly relatives there. She uses them,
> and she can squeeze a dollar til it hollers mama. I hate it. It makes my
> blood run cold, to touch it. Like fingernails on a chalk board. I can barely
> stand to take stuff out of styrofoam-block packed boxed.

I'm not so sure it isn't recyclable in its present form. I know they
make styrofoam containers out of recycled stuff.

N.