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= = WELCOME TO THE TERMINATERS PAGE! =MADE BY MEGHAN BORYESKNE AND ERICH SCHIMPF! =

On this site you will learn the following: 1.) How Diapers and Styrofoam cups are made 2.) How many Diapers and Styrofoam cups are used in a year 3.) How long you can use Diapers and Styrofoam Cups for 4.) How Diapers and Styrofoam Cups decompose 5.) What the future holds for Diapers and Styrofoam cups How they are made- Styrofoam is made from a material called Polystyrene Foam. Polystyrene has a low ability to conduct heat and is reusable. Polystyrene also is very hard to compress, but when it is it is harder to decompose. Ways to compress the Styrofoam are to take it to the the bottom of the ocean or to bury them under 50 feet of dirt. One of humanity's biggest problems is that when we put Styrofoam in a landfill and ends up being compressed. When the styrofoam is compressed it takes longer to decompose.

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Did you know that about 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups are thrown out in a year? This is a growing problem. Using paper cups is much more efficient and also can be recycled. Styrofoam cups take up the 1 million years to decompose and still release harmful gasses into the atmosphere. = =

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Diapers are made in factory by machines which make the pad of the diaper (the absorbent part which absorbs the bodily fluid) once it it thinned out. The outer-shell is then formed around the pad making the diaper. Watch the video below to learn more about how diapers are made.

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Can you guess how many diapers are thrown away in a year..hundreds?...thousands?...millions?

49 MILLION! That's nearly 3.4 millions tons!! Watch this voki to find out more!

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With all these diapers thrown away...where do they go? That's the problem..they go to landfills which will sit there for 550 years until it is decomposed! Yes, you did hear that right! 550 YEARS TO DECOMPOSE! It takes more time of a little babies diaper to decompose, then the amount of that babies life...pentupled! (Multiplied by 5!)

With all that diapers do negatively for the environment we MUST change they way we use them..but how? What is the future of diapers? Cloth! Using cloth in our diapers will make them reusable..eventually stopping disposable diapers in general! Watch this voki and find out how cloth diapers work. media type="custom" key="7975256"