Don't go home with the foam: push to ban Styrofoam, plastic bags in Seattle


	Don't go home with the foam: push to ban Styrofoam, plastic bags in Seattle

gingembre

6-9-2007 4:37 PM

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environment, seattle, ecology, sustainability, business, garbage, styrofoam, plastic bags

gingembre says:

Kudos to Foam-Free Seattle! Now let's hear it for a Foam-Free World!!!

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