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Since 2022, Lott Industries has been collecting and breaking down old Styrofoam to use in recycling purposes. Lott's CEO Tim Menke noted how around the world about 30% of landfill space is taken ...

Styrofoam, a material used for packaging anything and everything to be shipped, can be found in landfills all over the world. More than 5 billion pounds of Styrofoam ends up in landfills and ...

Food in containers made of the white plastic foam can no longer be given to diners who eat in, take leftovers or pick up takeout orders.

And if you then calculate this amount per year, it would be over five tons of Styrofoam per year that is going to the city landfills. So this is really something incredible. You know, it's too much.

Once a month, the Rotary Club of Austin-Southwest stops by the Sustainable Food Center's farmer's market to gather Styrofoam for recycling.

Since Styrofoam takes 500 years to decompose in landfills and cannot be recycled like cardboard or paper, it is not advisable to throw it in the trash. "The only way you can effectively get rid of ...