I begin this article with a caveat. I read this very interesting, complicated article, and I just want to share the information as I understand it. If you are interested in further information, please do more research and share it with us. If you have ever received a floral arrangement, you have seen foam blocks used to hold flowers in place. You may have saved and reused it for your own purposes. If you throw the foam block in the garbage, it is transported to the landfill, and it is still in the landfill. The traditional foam block is made from oil products, phenol, and formaldehyde, which break down into microplastics, which travel to our oceans and soil and eventually find their way into our food chain. The microplastics are less than 5 mm in size. The floral industry, florists, designers, and all who are concerned about our planet are interested in taking responsibility for the environment. Not long ago, some members of our Cascade Arrangers Guild and garden club discussed this very problem of environmentally unfriendly foam. How could we be more responsible for