Posted on 11/25/2008 1:07:27 AM PST by CE2949BB
Nanny State Alert.
The ban has been in place in San Francisco for several years. It’s played hell with Chinese and Mexican takeout businesses but I can’t see how it’s helped the litter problem. Paper containers affect the flavor of the food and plastic containers don’t keep food warm. It is a good excuse to eat out and not bring your lunch back to the office though.
A couple of decades ago it was foam containers. Flouride in the plastic, or some such.
Being a good steward of the environment, McDonalds switched from styrofoam to paper.
The greenies hollarred to high heaven about the trees cut down for the paper.
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Maybe California should ban business altogether. Or, how about banning the use of dishes in restaurants? Just have them plop the food right on the table, and people can eat it like dogs.
Saves all that precious water from automatic dishwashers flowing into the waste water system.
When I was a kid...we wrapped garbage in old newspapers. Everything went into an aluminum can for rubbish pickup. Everything was burnt in an incinerator.
When plastic came along...it caused fires at the incinerator.
Plastic is a disgusting commodity and I believe most of it is a petroleum product....Hint, hint.
Those of us who remember, the excuse they gave for switching to plastic bags from brown paper grocery bags was that it would save the trees. Now they want us to switch back again. This is what happens when you have junk science.
It most certainly is NOT!
Nothing helps start the woodstove up better than a bunch of plastic grocery bags. They melt into a puddle on the wood and keeps burning until the wood catches on fire.
Wouldn't want to have a fire in the INCINERATOR now would we....
plastics is a disgusting Capitalist commodity tha cost .20 what i can sel for $50 BWAHAHAHAHA and then bail me out if broke from fascist plots to offshore my STOLEN moneys from slave labor
(Anyone seen a communistfighter around here anywhere?)
.....sorry!
One of my customers makes those foam containers.
Much of the product is made from recycled material.
California “environmentalists” are full of sh!t.
“Plastic is a disgusting commodity and I believe most of it is a petroleum product....”
You’re disgusting!!!!
The biggest trash item in California that you see littering the streets and gutters is without a doubt, lottery scratcher tickets. I am assuming that these are the vast number of losing tickets that are being discarded. I guess we should not expect the state government to increase the percentage of winning tickets.
Its time for me to start marketing hemp ditty bags.
These chumps need to quit smokin this Styrofoam when they're too broke to buy pot!
They even tried to push Hemp bags here in tiny town Tx!
and in NY, used plastic METRO cards.
Dunno.
I am sure a gubmint study is underway.
There is really no good excuse for banning plastic containers, foam or otherwise. There is also no good reason to sort your trash. The technology to accept all the trash and mechanically sort it has been around for years. The problem is that the initial investment is not cheap, but it is self supporting and even profitable when properly done.
Processes for sorting metals, and plastics and glass from the compostables (paper, wood, garbage) are available. But then there would be no cause to get behind for the environmentalists (socialists).
Let’s get this right - this is not nanny-statism, it’s fascism.
Any time government dictates to business what must be produced for the common good, as determined by the state, that’s fascism.
Both Hitler and Mussolini, through dictates carried out by bureaucratic functionairies, told private businesses how and what to produce. Both allowed private property but insisted on de facto government control of that property.
California is not a nanny state. California is a fascist state.
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