Yale students are uniting against Styrofoam containers, Campus Reform reported.

Three student organizations -- Yale College Council, Graduate Student Assembly and Graduate and Professional Student Senate - are joining forces to eradicate Styrofoam food containers from their campus. They submitted a resolution to form a committee that will examine the feasibility of this goal.

Although dining halls at the college already ceased using styrofoam containers, local food trucks do "and they are now being targeted by student leaders in the interest of promoting sustainability," Campus Reform reported.

"Sustainability is a mission that the entire generation of students feels very passionate about, as shown in our unanimous support of this joint initiative with the graduate and professional schools," Joseph Cornett ('17), YCC member, told The Yale Daily News. "I'm excited to be working with them, and the more often that the different schools cooperate, the greater an impact we can have on Yale University."

The resolution was first passed by GPSS in May, the other organizations passed it last week.  Although the three organizations share a common goal in reducing Styrofoam takeout containers on campus, "the groups' resolutions have slightly different wording. The GSA asked the waste management committee to investigate a possible ban, while the GPSS's resolution tasked any potential committee with looking into a reduction," The Daily News reported.

 "All students want a more sustainable campus," Bryan Yoon FES '18, the resolution's author and chair of the GSA's Facilities and Healthcare Committee, told The Daily News. "We hope [the resolution] will help start a new dialogue across the divisional boundaries that consolidate the voices of all students regarding our shared concerns."

According to GSA, cost and competition deters food vendors from switching to more sustainable options. Yoon believes "a waste management committee, if formed, would have to be cautious when working with these vendors and cognizant of costs associated with moving away from Styrofoam. To do this, Yoon suggested that the committee -- which would contain faculty, students and local business owners -- use Yale's resources and connections to help vendors find the most affordable alternative containers," The Daily News reported.

"Those small vendors don't have the larger institutional contact [of Yale]," Yoon said. "Although businesses on Yale campus properties ... are not run by Yale, we should use our institutional leverage to change New Haven."