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Friday, February 15, 2013

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Wants to Ban Plastic-Foam Food Packaging. Should We?

Is it time to squash the Styrofoam?

In addition to bans on trans fats, smoking in public places and jumbo sodas, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to enact a city-wide ban on plastic-foam food packaging used in takeout boxes, cups and trays, reports Patch. The ban would affect restaurants, bodegas and public schools, if passed. There is no such ban in the City of Chicago, though the measure was proposed and failed a few years ago. Several environmental and activist groups, like No Foam Chicago, are still pushing for it. Mayor Bloomberg made the case for New York in his final State of the City address on Thursday. In his speech, the mayor compared the dangers of such packaging materials to lead paint and warned of its environmental impact, reported Yahoo! News. "…

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Friday, December 10, 2010

Environmental Commission Considers Recycling Styrofoam

After two years of discussion, the Highland Park Environmental Commission wonders if banning polystyrene is the way to go.

The Environmental Commission plans to meet with industry leaders that produce polystyrene products, commonly referred to as Styrofoam, to try and create a new system for recycling and reusing these items. "You've got to have a closed loop, otherwise it'll become part of the garbage like everything else," said city councilman Steven Mandel at Wednesday's commission meeting. As it waits on the city council to decide whether or not to ban Styrofoam products altogether, the commission plans to hold informal meetings with major companies like Dart and Solo to explore the possibility of creating a system where these producers would work with local retailers to recycle their own products. Much like other recycled products, Mandel would like to …

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