Posted on 11/19/2018 4:13:50 PM PST by lowbridge
The District of Columbia is set to implement a new ban on single-use plastic straws and coffee stirrers. Poised to take effect Jan. 1, the prohibition is not limited only to restaurants and bars, but also churches, day care centers, and other entities in the city.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is recommending the use instead of alternative items made from hay, bamboo, glass, paper or stainless steel.
“@MayorBowser’s list of recyclables and compostables now requires the use of compostable and/or reusable straws and stirrers when selling food or beverages in the District. Enforcement begins January 1, 2019!” the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment tweeted Thursday.
The District’s government will begin inspecting restaurants, pubs, food trucks, and other businesses and organizations for compliance Jan. 1 and will begin issuing fines for noncompliance July 1, according to the department’s website.
The D.C. Department of Energy and Environment also is asking the public to report to the department on potential violators handing out single-use plastic straws or coffee stirrers.
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You know, even the old Soviet Union had citizens informing on each other for more substantive issues and reasons.
And hospitals?
Glass straws in a day care center. What could go wrong?
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That sound you’re hearing is the Founders rolling their eyes and spinning in their graves.
Day by day, inch by inch, the tyranny is taking hold.
If they swallow one, you can use another one to perform an emergency tracheotomy.
My patent covers bamboo straws. Any infringement is subject to severe penalties.
There’s a business opportunity here ... rebrand those tooth brush tube holders as “personal straw containers.”
Zieg Heil.
Ummmm ..... juice boxes, douche bags?
Can you carry them? Concealed?
What if you do like q-tip does and provide instructions not to use them as you might like to?
I think fire hoses have a warning label not to suck on them.
“The District’s government will begin inspecting restaurants, pubs, food trucks, and other businesses and organizations for compliance Jan. 1 and will begin issuing fines for noncompliance July 1, according to the department’s website”
So, the government is asking for snitches and will be going door-to-door looking for straw compliance.
This isn’t too 1984, or Mao’s China, or anything, is it?
If they come to my door, they’ll find a singe use cartridge offered up, hypersonically.
1984 wasn’t supposed to be a road map.
Lol!
>>My patent covers bamboo straws. Any infringement is subject to severe penalties.
do you plan to shove them under the fingernails of infringing offenders?
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