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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (UPI) -- Plastic foam products, including
coffee cups and other carryout containers, have been banned from
the campus of Lake Forest College, a published report said
Wednesday.
It is the first college in the Chicago area to take such action,
although others are considering a ban, the Chicago Sun-Times
reported.
The school's food service spent $35,000 last year on plastic
foam products, spokesman Tom Ryan said. He said the cost will be
doubled by using paper products but will be absorbed by
implementing economies in other areas of the food service.
Eugene Hotchkiss, president of the private college, said the ban
will help resolve a national problem.
"We as a college, especially one that offers a major in
environmental studies, must do our part in bringing this
potential ecological disaster under control," he said.
The ban was recommended by the college's League for
Environmental Awareness and Protection and the Interfaith Center.
Brian Lipsett, science adviser to the Citizens' Clearinghouse
for Hazardous Wastes of Arlington, Va., estimated plastic foam,
which is not biodegradable, and other plastics account for about
one-third of the nation's garbage by volume.
Bailey Condrey, spokesman for the Council for Solid Waste
Solutions in Washington, said a recent study by Franklin
Associates indicated plastic foam from food service items account
for only 0.25 percent by weight and 1.2 percent by volume of the
nation's garbage.
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