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Materials: 1
● Polystyrene spoons
● Glass Jar Product Logo:
● Spray Paint Spoon Holder
● Hot Glue gun
● Sharp scissors or
garden scissors By Rose Guedea

Resources:
“Polystyrene.” Wikipedia,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene.
“ Molecular weight of Styrene”
Convert Units,
https://www.convertunits.com/molar
mass/Styrene
“Frequently Asked Questions:
Cost:
Benefits Of Recycling” Stanford
Polystyrene Spoons: University,
$1.69 https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanfor
Glass Jar: recycled d-recycling/frequently-asked-
questions/frequently-asked-
Spray paint: recycled questions-benefits-recycling
Hot Glue gun: recycled
Scissors: recycled
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Economics Of 5 History of
Polystyrene Facts: Recycling: Polystyrene
● Takes 500 years to Recycling preserves Polystyrene was discovered in
decompose in a landfill. natural resources & saves
1839 by Eduard Simon.
● Releases carbon energy which lowers the
Around 1931 polystyrene
dioxide & water vapor became available to the public
cost to make new when I. G. Farben’s started
when burned products. Most plastic manufacturing it. Fun Fact:
● Can be recycled into products take hundreds of Polystyrene was
new items, except food years to decompose so original called
containers repurposing this material Styrol until the
Chemical to keep it from stockpiling thesis of German
chemist Hermann Staudinger
Facts and in landfills frees up land
led to renaming it polystyrene.
Properties and labor for other uses.
How this was made:
First, I spray painted a glass
● is created when jar & many polystyrene
spoons.
polystyrene monomers
Second, when the paint dried, I
interconnect. cut off the base of the spoons
● degrades by chlorinated & left a little tip. Next, I
solvents, aromatic applied hot glue to the spoons
hydrocarbon solvents. & attached them to the jar
● Polystyrene chemical starting at the top & repeating
composition: with more spoons until the
Hydrogen 7.742% whole jar was covered, but
leaving an opening for a
Carbon 92.258%
candle or flower.