Try this experiment in your coffee room at work.  Put up a sign that says Did you know it takes over 700 years for a styrofoam cup to breakdown? and put a picture of a coffee mug and a styrofoam cup. 

Watch.  You will see more and more people using mugs.  It may take a few months, but watch and learn.  It really is that simple.

Sometimes a sign is all it takes.

Ethanol say the politicians.  Not so fast.  As we all can see corn prices are rising as the demand for it increases  to produce ethanol.  This causes not onlu corn prices to go up but also all those sweet drinks and other foods that are high fructose corn syrup.

Also as corn prices goes up farmers will do whatever they can to grow more and  more which means even more fertilizers.  But it doesn't pollute and damage the environment!!  This is incorrect.

The fertilizers enter the water system and end up destroying the ecosystem of aquatic life.  Read this article to learn more http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/18/dead.zone/index.html