When I sit here lamenting living in the blue state of New York, I take a little solace in knowing that at least I don’t live in New York City and I don’t have to put up with that tyrant of a Mayor, Michael Bloomberg. Not only is he telling people what they can eat and drink, now he’s going after food and beverage containers.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has fought against smoking, big sugary drinks and salty food during his tenure, is setting his sights on a new foe: Styrofoam.
Bloomberg plans to use part of his Thursday State of the City address to push for a ban on Styrofoam food packaging. He also will call for initiatives that would increase the number of parking spaces for electric cars and begin recycling more plastics and food waste
“One product that is virtually impossible to recycle and never bio-degrades is Styrofoam … something that we know is environmentally destructive and that may be hazardous to our health, that is costing taxpayers money and that we can easily do without, and is something that should go the way of lead paint,” Bloomberg will say, according to excerpts of the speech obtained by The Associated Press. (Read More)
No hot coffee for you, New Yorkers!
The NYC folks sure love their dictators. I think they deserve every bit of this nut cake and more. Just keep paying and falling in line. It must be fun for them living on the island of utopia.
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First of all, who the hell uses Styrofoam for coffee? I haven’t had a coffee in Styro for eons. Everyone uses paper (cardboard? whatever.)
He’s a dope! You’d think as mayor of the largest city in the country he’d have something better to do.
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The concern for our environment here is nice to see. However, there is a lot more to this than polystyrene not being able to biodegrade. The manufacturing of paper is much more damaging to our environment then polystyrene is by a considerable amount. Both wax coated paper and polystyrene are difficult to recycle, however in my medium size town there are 10 places that you can drop off polystyrene for reuse in packaging. I realize that most people will just end up dumping this in the garbage. Modern landfills are designed not to let things biodegrade (so paper will always be paper in a landfill). This is a good thing, and is done so that the paper does not release methane gas, which is damaging to our ozone. In my city our garbage is incinerated. The polystyrene releases considerable more energy than paper, which we transform into heat and power.
I love my earth. Let’s be smart and save it!
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Does NYC have no crime problem? No corruption? Everything running well? Students doing well in the public schools? Employment at or near 100%? Terrorist threats eliminated? Didn’t think so. But to listen to Mr. Bloomberg, the most important problems facing the city he is supposed to be serving are large sodas and styrofoam. NYC needs some good leaders.
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CSmith
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Does NYC have no crime problem? No corruption? Everything running well? Students doing well in the public schools? Employment at or near 100%? Terrorist threats eliminated?
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CSmith…Bless you! What you cite are REAL problems. Obviously, Bloomy has no solution to those; so he concentrates on stupid sh@t of little/no consequence. He likes small stuff; has a Napoleon complex…another dimunitive man attacking as much as he can…small ‘problems.’
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good news – Lousenberg is going to retire !
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What a hack, or maybe it’s just plain insanity. “Nanny” Bloomberg is following Obama’s lead in NYC. He wants to destroy everything and everyone. Hey, NYC, why not just ban Bloomberg instead?
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