What is Operation Polar Bear: Biodegradable Styrofoam?
Bear The Changes Now,
To Change the Bears Future
OPBBS
"Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam coffee cups every year."
OPBBS Is the program we started to help wild Polar Bears keep they're natural habitat. How often do you use Styrofoam? Once a week when you eat out and bring back a few Styrofoams boxes, or when you send a package to someone filled with packing peanuts... or maybe just when you took a quick drink out of a tiny cup and then threw it in a garbage can. Well that 20 second drink that you just threw in the garbage won't decompose for the rest of your life, or your children's life, or they're children's life, in fact it most likely won't decompose for another 500 years or so.
The point I'm making is that packing peanuts, take-out boxes, cups, bowls, plates, all made of Styrofoam that is not very reusable or possible to recycle. All it can do is take of valuable space in a land fill for a few hundred years. It adds greatly to all the trash filling the sea--and it's deadly to any animal that finds it a tasty snack. I am trying to help polar bears because, not only could they simply swallow the piece of trash and die, all the garbage and the production adds to global warming, and global warming takes away from their habitat over time.
More will die out simply because they can't adapt quickly enough to a warmer climate, and then half of their range is just frozen ice, so half of their home would disappear altogether. Where would all the inhabitants of America go if half of it just melted away? Their goes half of America--billions of peoples homes. What would we do then, we wouldn't have anywhere to rebuild, we wouldn't have enough food, we would be riddled with the diseased and homeless, most of us would die off, and this is the same for polar bears.
We were doing well...
When we started conservation methods for the polar bears in the 1980's their population numbers shot up. After the numbers increased they gradually began to decline again, the problem is, is that if the polar caps continue to melt at this rate experts say, two thirds of the current population will most likely be gone by 2050, leaving a population of 8'000 in the wild! They are not sure when it will happen but, not long after their first mass extinction they will disappear altogether.
Why Haven't We Switched?
I walk into stores and see non-biodegradable styrofoam still on the shelves and I too wonder why we still have it for sale. The real, true, and sad reason is that several companies will go out of business. Rich styrofoam producing companies will go out of business and their rich owners will grow poor. So they continue to waste our resources on their styrofoam and for some reason we continue to buy it. It's not that difficult, so you want to have coffee at your work, you want to take home your food, you want to give out hot chocolate at church? Order biodegradable styrofoam online, use it thats fine! Simply go to this website http://www.earthshellnow.com/ and buy it in bulk, it's that easy.
Our Basic Plan
With in the next year this is what I hope to accomplish:
* A possible discount for a restaurants to buy a large amount of the biodegradable takeout boxes, etc. through us.
* A possible donation to a polar bear program per purchase (Maybe 3%).
* A better environment in Utah; and over time for the polar bears.
* To start more recycling programs, across the nation.
* To do several presentations to several business's to help them go green.
* To lower Co2 Emmissions, and stop ice cap melting and break up
