Quote:The mayor who has already targeted fat, sugar and salt in the city will turn to extruded polystyrene foam, saying it clogs up landfills, does not biodegrade and might harm human health.

Bloomberg will raise the proposal in his final State of the City speech on Thursday. The city provided reporters an advance text of the speech on Wednesday.

Bloomberg, in his 12th year as mayor, has made public health and sustainability hallmarks of his three terms in office, and he has taken aim repeatedly at the fast-food industry - most recently in his controversial plan to bar the sale of large portions of sugary soda, which goes into effect next month.

Styrofoam, he says, should go the way of lead-based paint, which the city banned from residential use in 1960. An estimated 20,000 tons of Styrofoam enter the city's waste stream each year, and it can add an estimated $20 per ton to the cost of recycling because it needs to be removed from the recycling stream, the city said.

"After all, we can live without it. We may live longer without it. And the doggie bag will survive just fine," the text of Bloomberg's speech says.

Dow Chemical Co, which makes Styrofoam, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Similar bans have been adopted in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon.

The plan was likely to meet opposition from small businesses, since alternatives to Styrofoam tend to cost between two and five times as much.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/1...4220130214

Good ole mama Doomberg.

Quote:After all, we can live without it. We may live longer without it. And the doggie bag will survive just fine," the text of Bloomberg's speech says.

When you are worth eleventy kabillion dollars, of course you can live without it....... but they guy running the bodega, maybe not as much.

Ban! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN!

Funniest thing I heard (I think from one of the Reason magazine people on Fox?) was that if Bloomberg wanted to ban things that were bad for you in NY, he should start with his own channel since it cost people untold billions in loses during the current depression.

Now that's funny, GTS...

And maybe the Mets.

I hope banning hipsters is next on his list.

It's one man against a city with a multi million population and he's winning. And what's he going to do if a store uses it with their products? It's not their fault that the people they sell their burgers to are litterbugs.

(02-14-2013 06:02 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  It's not their fault that the people they sell their burgers to are litterbugs.

That is where you are wrong in Bloomberg's New York. Guilty until proven you didn't enable the litterbug.

Of course, if you just took public transportation to the organic farmer's market and biked home with your fresh bread in a re-usable burlap bag, then you are above suspicion.



This is what Bloomberg wants the USA to look like. All while he travels via helicopter to the Hamptons or Nantucket or Vail or Maui. Rich people aren’t like you and me, and that’s the way they like it, and they'll legislate changes to keep pit that way.

BTW ... Reason covered how the drinking ban disproportionately (hugely so) effects small MINORITY OWNED businesses. Combine that with the story I posted here about nearly 100% of NYPD street searches being on minorities and the liberal utopia looks pretty racist.

Well I for one support him. The sound of styrofoam being removed from a box just grinds my gears. It's amazing that Mr Bloomberg is so concerned.

**** this elitist prick

Bloomberg is working hard to crush the TeaParty. I hope he succeeds.

He's going to protect you from yourself regardless if you want it or not.

(02-14-2013 05:03 PM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  Ban! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN! BAN!

It is truely amazing how many on the right don't give a damn about the Earth. Pretty sad actually. As long as there is a buck to be made, who gives a **** if it is destroyed.

(02-14-2013 06:02 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  It's one man against a city with a multi million population and he's winning. And what's he going to do if a store uses it with their products? It's not their fault that the people they sell their burgers to are litterbugs.

It isn't all about the litter but that is a big part. It just doesn't break down in landfills.

Right-wing thinking is just stupidly warped. Reality dictates that those we elect to set public policy must sometimes ask individuals to make changes in their short-term behavior in order to produce long-term benefits. Right-wingers call this tyranny, the rest of us call this good community policy.

(02-17-2013 10:52 PM)UM2001GRAD Wrote:  Right-wing thinking is just stupidly warped. Reality dictates that those we elect to set public policy must sometimes ask individuals to make changes in their short-term behavior in order to produce long-term benefits. Right-wingers call this tyranny, the rest of us call this good community policy.

Here's why phrasing are important. Last time I checked, banning and asking are two totally different things. Force is a better word. Enter that into your statement and it doesn't sound as good, does it?