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Posted on 07/08/2008 5:55:53 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
Yoko Wang, owner of Toshio's Teriyaki in Rainier Valley, is not too worried about a possible ban on Styrofoam clamshells in Seattle. She's confident that biodegradable containers to keep her broiled, boneless chicken hot will be available by the time the city mandates the switch — in July 2010.
She was shocked, however, to hear the ban would extend to plastics, right down to each chili-sauce container and fork.
"Everybody is going to have to use chopsticks," Wang said after her Monday lunch rush. "I can give lessons."
Today, the City Council will hold a public hearing on Mayor Greg Nickels' proposal to ban foam at restaurants and grocery stores, and impose a 20-cent fee for each disposable paper and plastic bag used in the checkout line at all grocery, convenience and drugstores. Both are likely to gain council approval.
Even if it's costly, Nickels says shoppers, consumers and businesses need to do right by the environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
A ban on paper or plastic bags?? I’m in trouble. I use both. I’m bi-sackual but it’s not my fault, I was born that way.
Leni
Yuck. How will they bring those leaky packages of chicken home with no plastic bags? Will they throw loose grapes into their politically correct re-usable bags?
I agree. Last week one of my neighbors put an open box full of that stuff out on a windy trash day. I’m still picking it out of my yard. You’d think they’d have a clue.
No, read again, its a 20-cent fee for paper or plastic bags. Its Styrofoam that will be banned all together.
“Even if it’s costly, Nickels says shoppers, consumers and businesses need to do right by the environment.”....
I would not mind paying 20 cents for a plastic bag to put around Nickels head.....
That's weird pricing. Aside from that, does that mean that plastic forks and spoons will also be banned? How will people eat their food when they get it to go? Sure, you could use chopsticks for oriental food, but what about everything else?
This is really stupid.
“How will people eat their food when they get it to go?”...
This is what the libs want you to do....go back to the stone age and start eating with your fingers again...
I am now completely convinced that large amounts of overly sweetened coffee, grunge music and long periods of cloudy skies will actually fry one’s brain into mush...............
Seattle is whack left ground zero......
long periods of cloudy skies will actually fry one’s brain into mush...............
You bet!.....case in point, Patty Murray.
We, here at work, do business with the US and other governments. Styrofoam peanuts are verboten for shipping stuff to them. A new type of “packing material” is this stuff that is just like fluffy Cheetos except there is no cheese powder on it, so it’s white. You can actually eat them, but they are not tasty, just bland..............
$5.71 plus 5% tax = $6.00 even. Just a hunch.
I have a question. What do they actually ship styrofoam in?
Ok. I get it. I’ve just never seen that anywhere else.
I'd pay $20 to put a plastic bag over Nickels head...
Please, God, tell me they're not made from corn or rice, two foodstuffs the price of which are going through the roof...the poor starve so we rich can be environmentally correct.
If we don't eat the used ones, we can at least feed them to livestock or burn them to heat our homes.
Can we just go back to the middle ages and bring our own daggers to McDonalds so we can pick up our food by stabbing it?
The 20 cent fee is just step one. Once they can get away with that, an outright ban is just a vote away.
Have you ever watched a baby learning to eat regular food? Do as they are inclined to do. Dip right into the mashed potatoes with your fingers, Wipe your hands on whatever you are wearing and run your fingers through your hair to clean them.
Corn starch, I think.
Years back, they made biodegradable plastic bags out of corn starch.
Maybe still do.
Nah, on second thought forget it. Putin isn't that dumb.
Can we just go back to the middle ages and bring our own daggers to McDonalds so we can pick up our food by stabbing it?
Liberals would ban daggers.....fingers only!
The really young babies don’t even use their hands. They just fall forward into their plate and eat like a puppy.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Yes, they are made just like the Cheetos you eat from Frito-Lay!.....................
http://www.uline.com/ProductDetail.asp?model=S-1564&desc=Cornstarch+Biodegradable
In other words, too bad if you're not rich like us.
UGH... I don’t know how much more libtardism I can stand..
Can we give Seattle to Russia?
Russia already has it. Just north of Seattle in wonderful, colorful Fremont is a thirty foot high cast iron or bronze statue of mass muderer Vladimir Lenin.....
You can still kill with fingers...those too will be banned in time...
When fingers are banned, only outlaws will have fingers!
Can we give Seattle to Russia?
Just google “Lenin in Fremont”.....
When fingers are banned, only outlaws will have fingers!
You bet!....Liberalism to its logical conclusion.
I dunno. How bad does the city need the money?
Okay... so when I empty my shredder, what do I put the contents in? Or do I just sprinkle it in my recycling bin?
Liberals are sissies.
Here’s the ugly truth:
Foam packaging is very clean and enviornmentally “friendly” to manufacture-polystyrene is a petroleum (natural gas)derivative. It does not break down in land fills-contrary to the public’s misconception not breaking down in a land fill is a GOOD THING.
McDonalds went from foam clam shells to (coated) paper packaging in the late 80’s (George Bush had a white house ceremony to commemorate the event).
The paper that is used to package food-
IS BLEACHED (dioxins in water supply)
IS COATED (so it does not break down in land fills)
IS NOT made from recycled paper-it can not be recycled andused for direct contact with food.
Coated paper (which has replaced polystyrene) is WORSE for the enviorment than foam. AND IT TAKE MORE ENERGY TO MAKE PAPER packaging than foam.
From Wikepedia.....
Fremont is considered a quirky artistic community, and like other statues in the neighborhood (such as Waiting for the Interurban), the Lenin statue is often the victim of various artistic projects, endorsed or not. A glowing red star and sometimes Christmas lights have been added to the statue for Christmas since 2004. For the 2004 Solstice Parade, the statue was made to look like John Lennon. During Gay Pride Week, the statue is dressed in drag. Other appropriations of the statue have included painting it as a clown.
The styrofome peanuts comes in huge plastic bags which are a real mess to empty into a hopper.
I think that they should just throw your burrito and french fires unwrapped and naked into your open car window, from now on.
At sit-down restaurants, they would just slide the food onto your table.
[this is going to present a problem if you happen to order a soda too, though]
“Please, God, tell me they’re not made from corn or rice”
I know Red Badger is one righteous dude but I *don’t* think he’s God....:)
[or....~is~ he??]
Not me--I only use plastic (but does that make me hetero-sackual or homo-sackual)??
Ban Seatle
Like milk bottles, if you set them on fire they pretty much vanish entirely.
So what’s the problem, here?......:))
What! vote away a 20 cent per bag fee? I am trying to imagine how many bags a year shoppers take away from merchants in Seattle each year. With a population of nearly 600,000 and then add all the visitors, and the numbers of shopping bags must be astronomical. Now imagine the city getting a 20 cent fee for each bag. WOW! what a cash cow. No wonder they are so eager to pass this into law.
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