If you follow this blog, then you know how Ned, Karin and I feel about Styrofoam and can imagine how happy we were to receive the below news.
The Bureau of Environmental Services in Howard County, where we’re based, last week announced a new partnership with Dart Container Corporation. The agreement calls for Dart to collect polystyrene foam (commonly referred to as plastic foam or Styrofoam) #6 products from the landfill’s Convenience Center and transport the materials to its plant in Leola, Pennsylvania, for reprocessing into new products like picture frames and molding, building insulation and other consumer goods.
Other items accepted at the landfill’s Convenience Center include clothing, cardboard, carpet, rigid plastics, electronics, cooking oil and car batteries.
With any luck, polystyrene will soon be added to our single-stream curbside collection program and we can stop burying this stuff.
