Caretakers of God's Creation

Did you know that starting July 1 restaurants and other food vendors in Virginia can no longer use expanded polystyrene (think Styrofoam®) takeout or beverage containers? This ban applied to vendors with more than 20 outlets starting last July and will now expand to small establishments. As the Northern Virginia Bird Alliance put it “If Captain John Smith had tossed a piece of EPS over the side of his ship as he traveled up the Potomac River in 1608, tiny pieces of it would still be in the water, where fish, birds and other wildlife could eat them.”  Learn more about polystyrene’s environmental effects and the alternatives.