Another factor that you have to take into consideration is that it takes less energy to make plastics than other materials like glass, aluminum, and steel. Second factor that environmentalist are worried about the manufacturing of polystyrene is that more and more we are turning to plastics to provide for further assistance in our daily lives. Around the world efforts are being made by European nations to recycle plastics, in the United States recycling depots are being constructed by municipalities, and all around the world in the scientific community there is great excitement for what lies ahead of finding better ways to treat and recycle polystyrene plastics. In the effort to use polystyrene to its full potential as a compound of the next millennium. The medical field has experimented with the use of polystyrenes for use of RNA synthesis and it has proven that being a chemically inert organic polymer, polystyrene prevents extraneous growth of nucleic acid chains off the support matrix.
Plastics are man made materials, modern, synthetic.
Polystyrene is a plastic, a man made material, modern, and synthetic. It is a contribution to our dedication to science in every day life that will be changing, has been changing, and was changing our world since the end of the Second World War. It produces some harmful compounds on the way to its production, but everyday we learn something new that helps us reduce the risk towards our environment and towards human beings.