Greening the Games: Food Containers

Samoa will host 5,000 athletes, officials and visitors from 24 Countries, who will compete in 26 different athletic competitions for 14 days.

That, and the audience, will mean a lot of people with food at events. Sometimes people will carry food in from home, and sometimes they will get it from vendors.

The Samoan audience can show the Pacific people Samoa’s best by helping to green the games by using reusable food containers.

Please consider these facts;

• Health: Styrofoam contains the chemical styrene which is linked to cancer, vision and hearing loss, impaired memory and concentration, nervous system effects… and the list goes on. What happens when you eat hot foods or drink liquids from Styrofoam plates and cups is styrene enters into your bodies.
• Oceans: Too much plastic rubbish – and this includes broken bits of Styrofoam – finds its way into the oceans. Unless something changes there will be more plastic debris in the oceans than fish by 2050.