Corum just held a beach cleanup activity last week on April 14, clearing up total 80 kilograms of marine debris. This time the participants include not only our staff but also a senior high school student, who voluntarily registered our beach cleanup event online. We saw so many floating plastics and Styrofoam fragments in either large or small pieces almost everywhere in sands. Through working together to collect beach litter, we profoundly noticed how important for us to refuse single-use plastics such as polystyrene cups, lids, and straws, for it is a true upstream solution by ridding them from the consumer stream. We already know those single-use plastic food-ware products made from polystyrene and expanded polystyrene foam are carcinogenic. They shouldn’t have any place near our food, let alone our environment.

We are grateful for the support and participation from the public, and we look forward to continuing our beach cleanup efforts in maintaining the beauty and health of our coastlines. By publishing this e-news, we hope to promote the caring for nature and raise awareness about the problem of beach pollution from polystyrene and expanded polystyrene foam, and sincerely appeal everyone to refuse single-use plastics.