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Articles tagged with: Polystyrene

26 November 2011

Toxic Foam Surfboards are fun too!

But lets find a GREEN solution

Posted in Every Board Has A Story

Yes, I am the proud rider of 3 beautifully shaped surfboards...yes, i love them....and...yes, they are made of polystyrene.

Mark Nelson, Engineer @ Cisco, Lecturer at UT Dallas had this to say

"In 'Biodegradation of Polystyrene, Poly(methyl methacrylate), and Phenol Formaldehyde' by Kaplan, Hartenstein, and Sutter, it is shown that polystyrene is basically inert, and even in the presence of active bioactive cultures does not decompose at all.

So if you want to get rid of your polystyrene, sorry, you are probably going to have to incinerate it."

I say "Bummer"