Polystyrene Cups: The Right Choice for Fleischmann Fine Foods Dave Madden, Keith Leyendecker Max Mas

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Polystyrene Cups The Right Choice for
Fleischmann Fine FoodsDave Madden, Keith
LeyendeckerMax Maschewske, Ryan King
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Dense Polystyrene Cups

• Life Cycle Assessment
• Manufacturing
• Disposal
• Cost
• Customer Opinion

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Life Cycle Assessment
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Manufacturing

• Acquisition of Raw Materials
• Deforestation vs. Oil Extraction
• Cost of Production
• Power Usage
• Water Usage
• Pollution

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Disposal

• Landfill disposal
• Groundwater contamination
• Addition of mass/volume to landfill
• Recycling concerns
• Heat recovered from incineration
• Twice the amount from polystyrene
• 17,800 BTU/lb (polystyrene) vs. 7,500BTU/lb
  (paper)

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Cost

• Polystyrene cups offer savings of 26,000 every
  year.
• Over 5 years this equates to a savings of
  130,000.

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Customer Opinion

• Survey Results

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The only environmental and cost effective
solution to FFFC is Dense Polystyrene Cups.