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To: dennisw

“These products cause real environmental harm and we need to be able to prevent nearly 30,000 tons of expanded polystyrene waste from entering our landfills, streets, and waterways.”

Controversy aside for a minute, I have a VERY difficult time trying to visualize 30,000 tons of Styrofoam. That’s 60,000,000 pounds of the stuff. Given how Styrofoam weighs next to nothing, and it takes a very large volume to make a pound, if all 60,000,000 lbs of it were placed in one pile, there’d be a new mountain to be named in NYC.


13 posted on 09/23/2015 9:12:20 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Carthego delenda est

Are you saying they may have inflated the #s to justify their position?! NEVER! lol


15 posted on 09/23/2015 9:21:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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