Today’s “Save the Ocean” post is on using less plastic. Go read it 
A week ago I highlighted a news article which reported that a certain premiere university in Malaysia adopted a “go green” concept and decided to do away with harmful polystyrene food containers. At the end of the article, I threw a poll in which I asked whether polystyrene food containers should be banned in cafeterias/canteens.
The results of the poll indicated that 95% of my readers agreed that polystyrene should be banned in cafeterias/canteens, while 5% didn’t care about it. While I could go about bashing speculating why a handful of my readers didn’t care about the use of polystyrene food containers in cafeterias or canteens, I won’t. Why? Because it is a personal choice, and because everybody is entitled to their own opinions 
Here’s a short video clip (20 seconds) that demonstrates the effects of (hot) oil on polystyrene food containers. If the effects of polystyrene on the environment doesn’t catch your fancy, I hope you will be reminded of this video clip the next time you pack lunch/dinner in one of these containers. You don’t eat only your food, you eat some of the polystyrene as well 
Thanks, ColourfulWorld, for sending me the video clip!
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Gosh, that IS scary!
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I’ve seen this video in Youtube before, and yes, it’s quite scary thinking that you do take in some polystyrene into your stomach together with the food.
Seems like there’s still a small number of people who doesn’t really care about this until it really hits them.
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Well, for more information how much polystyrene that you might actually consume regardless of the food / water temperature. Read about this here:
Quantitative Analysis of Styrene Monomer in Polystyrene and Foods
If you can’t understand the entire report, just focus on the tables, particularly Tables 4, 5 and 6.
Happy eating polystyrene!
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Yep, scary indeed. We need to be more aware of these kind of things for sure.
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OK, after so long didn’t comment on your blog, I guess this is another successful persuasion for the sake of environment post. That video certainly is eww….
I know I am doing something bad to the environment whenever I ta bao (take away in Cantonese) but I have cut down on my ta bao activities! Why punish me with this video?!
Anyway, will try my best to contribute to the environment.
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Like I said in my post, if “contributing to the environment” doesn’t come naturally to you, the least you could do is stop eating polystyrene, LOL. It’s not for my health you know, it’s for yours
yuk! there was a show on uk tv ages ago about how much you ingest with take away food cartons. it gives you plastic poo! literally!
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Hi, everyone. This is a cool demonstration that good environment may also equal good for you and your health (mental and physical). In most cases it does hold true for each person, and globally, I think good for the environment is ALWAYS good for health of the people.