The article discusses the ban of Styrofoam by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for eradicating polystyrene foam products. Topics discussed include phasing out polystyrene foam by Chicago Public schools, joining of anti-Styrofoam crusade by Washington, District of Columbia (D.C.) to ban the single-use Styrofoam clamshell containers, and polystyrene piling up in landfills, which takes 500 years to break down, thereby affecting humans and microbes.