Polystyrene - Styrene

• Malibu Ban on Polystyrene: Opposition to Plastic Foam Ban Grows - Malibu Times 30mar2005

• 21 CFR § 177.1640 Polystyrene and rubber-modified polystyrene - Code of Federal Regulations rev.1apr03

• Plastic Corks finding Global Market - AP 4feb03

• Evaluation of styrene oligomers eluted from polystyrene for estrogenicity in estrogen receptor binding assay, reporter gene assay, and uterotrophic assay Food and Chemical Toxicology  Jan03

• The Stench of Plastic: Ex-Press Plastics moved from a trading estate in Harleston, Norfolk, UK - The Ecologist Nov01

• Polystyrene Packaging Council Says  "Recycling Polystyrene Packaging is Uneconomical" - PSPC current as of 20jul01

• Bans 

  • Suffolk County (NY) Ban of Plastic Grocery Bags and other Plastic Food Containers - Amended 4dec91

  • Suffolk County, NY, Bans Plastic Food Containers -- First In Nation - Rachel's #76 9may88

  • Plastic Wrapping Banned in Suffolk -  New York Times 30apr88

  • See Berkeley Ordinance on Polystyrene in the Work of the Berkeley Plastics Task Force

• Human Physiologic Factors in Respiratory Uptake of 1,3-Butadiene - EHP Sep01

• Certain Styrene Oligomers Have Proliferative Activity on MCF-7 Human Breast Tumor Cells  - EHP Jul01

• Hormone-Disrupting Toxin Found in Polystyrene Containers  - Kyodo Tokyo 27apr98

• Styrene  -  Handbook of Toxic Properties of Monomers and Additives. 1995

• Nonyl-Phenol p-Nonyl-Phenol: an Estrogenic Xenobiotic Released from "Modified" Polystyrene  - EHP 1991

• Foam fast-food containers: The scapegoat, not the problem - Mobil Corporation Advertising in Time 29feb88

• Styrene Monomer in Polystyrene and Foods  -  Environmental Health Perspectives 1976

• Lead Phosphate - Used as stabilizer in styrene and casein plastics - National Toxicology Program ROC 2000