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To: Ari Haseotes, President and CEO of Cumberland Farms
Say no to toxins in your to-go cup!
Despite the well documented risks of harm from disposable foam cups, Cumberland Farms still offers no other option for its hot beverages.
Why is this important?
Cumberland Farms needs to stop serving coffee in foam cups. We all know how detrimental this product is to the environment and to the human body as well. It's unfathomable that in 2019 Cumby's is still exclusively using these toxic, polluting single-use cups, especially when their competitors have switched to more eco- and bio- friendly options. Their customers deserve better, as does the environment.
From HealthBeckon.com --
"The ‘styrene’ present in Styrofoam cups and other such containers has the ability to percolate the food or beverages carried in them. The foods can be anything, ranging from hot or cold drinks, snacks, alcohols to acidic eatables.
Styrene is a suspected carcinogen and neurotoxin. It carries a host of other adverse health effects like:
Irritation and mucous secretion from eyes and nose.
Increased levels of fatigue and decreased concentration ability.
Increased levels of abnormal pulmonary function and cancer.
Disrupts normal hormone functions resulting in thyroid problems and other hormone related problems.
Styrene has unpleasant effects on the environment too. And the most unpleasant of those is the fact that styrene takes about 500 years to decompose. Much of the food packaging we eat from today might be disposable, but not decomposable; at-least not for another half a millennium.
When polystyrene waste meanders down the drains and waterways to merge with the big seas and oceans, it carries the prospect of killing the marine life. On the other hand, the mere process of polystyrene manufacturing pollutes the air to a very large extent."
Sign and share this petition asking Cumberland Farms to switch to a hot beverage containers that won't poison its' customers and OUR earth.
From HealthBeckon.com --
"The ‘styrene’ present in Styrofoam cups and other such containers has the ability to percolate the food or beverages carried in them. The foods can be anything, ranging from hot or cold drinks, snacks, alcohols to acidic eatables.
Styrene is a suspected carcinogen and neurotoxin. It carries a host of other adverse health effects like:
Irritation and mucous secretion from eyes and nose.
Increased levels of fatigue and decreased concentration ability.
Increased levels of abnormal pulmonary function and cancer.
Disrupts normal hormone functions resulting in thyroid problems and other hormone related problems.
Styrene has unpleasant effects on the environment too. And the most unpleasant of those is the fact that styrene takes about 500 years to decompose. Much of the food packaging we eat from today might be disposable, but not decomposable; at-least not for another half a millennium.
When polystyrene waste meanders down the drains and waterways to merge with the big seas and oceans, it carries the prospect of killing the marine life. On the other hand, the mere process of polystyrene manufacturing pollutes the air to a very large extent."
Sign and share this petition asking Cumberland Farms to switch to a hot beverage containers that won't poison its' customers and OUR earth.