Know Your Plastic - Article 6

Type 6 Plastic - PS (Polystyrene) OR Styrofoam

Polystyrene is an inexpensive, lightweight and easily-formed plastic with a wide variety of uses. It is most often used to make disposable foam drinking cups, food containers, egg cartons, plastic picnic cutlery, foam packaging. Polystyrene is structurally weak and ultra-lightweight, it breaks up easily and is dispersed readily throughout the natural environment. Beaches all over the world have bits of polystyrene lapping at the shores, and an untold number of marine species have ingested this plastic with immeasurable consequences to their health.

Polystyrene may leach styrene, a possible human carcinogen, into food products (especially when heated in a microwave). Chemicals present in polystyrene have been linked with human health and reproductive system dysfunction.

Type 6 plastic is cheap to produce, lightweight and it can be easily formed. We meet it in the form of rigid polystyrene and formed styrofoam. It would be wise to avoid type 6 plastic as much as possible.

*Not at all to be reused.*

*Recycling is not widely available for polystyrene products.*

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