John,

Fast food is convenient: When you get a drink in a foam cup or food in a plastic container, you can just throw the packaging away. It's instant and easy.

But the plastic foam we throw away doesn't really go away.

It'll still be around in a decade, in a century...under some conditions, polystyrene packaging won't break down and decompose for thousands of years.1

Polystyrene is one of the worst forms of plastic pollution. That's part of the reason why lots of fast food chains have switched to other materials -- but Sonic Drive-In still gives out foam cups at many of their restaurants.

We shouldn't be able to order one of the worst kinds of plastic pollution at the drive-thru. Call on Sonic Drive-In to stop using polystyrene foam cups today.

Your fast food and drinks served in polystyrene containers comes with a side order of carcinogenic chemicals.

Trace amounts of the chemical styrene can leach into food and drink packaged in polystyrene containers. Research has linked styrene exposure to several types of cancers.2

This stuff just isn't good for us. When safer alternatives exist, no restaurant should be packaging its food in materials that can harm its customers.

Take action to protect consumers' health by telling Sonic to phase out polystyrene foam containers.

Polystyrene clogs our landfills. It litters our communities. It threatens our health. Why do we still use it?

We've long known that we need to phase out polystyrene as a key part of confronting the plastic pollution crisis. With your support, we've helped win bans on polystyrene in 9 states.

But Sonic is a nationwide chain, so this harmful form of plastic is still for sale at some Sonic locations across the country. We'll keep working to ban polystyrene in even more states -- but in the meantime, we can put a serious dent in the amount of polystyrene fueling the plastic pollution crisis by urging companies to stop using it.

Call on Sonic to phase out foam packaging today.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. Mike Wehner, "It takes decades for polystyrene to break down, even in direct sunlight," BGR, October 13, 2019.
2. "Styrene," National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, last accessed July 21, 2023.

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