Good bye yellow brick cheese slices.
Posted on 04/21/2024 6:38:41 PM PDT by lowbridge
Individually wrapped cheese would be largely banned under a far-reaching bill getting pushed by New York environmentalists and politicians to reduce the use of plastics, The Post has learned.
The state bill — called Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act — would require companies with net incomes over $1 million who sell or distribute food or products to reduce plastics and other packaging that ends in landfills or waterways by 50% over the next 12 years.
It would also impose a fee on companies that use plastic packages, with money going toward recycling programs and infrastructure.
“This legislation shifts the onus of recycling from municipalities and ensures that producers of products are serving our interests by establishing solutions to sustainable packaging,” Sen. Peter Harckham (D-Peekskill) said in a memo promoting the bill.
The typical New Yorker creates nearly 5 pounds of trash every day, which means the state produces approximately 15 million tons of waste each year, according to Harckham, who introduced the measure along with Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan).
“This waste primarily goes to landfills and incinerators, but can often end up in our water, natural habitats, and municipal spaces,” the memo said.
Four states have implemented similar programs — Maine, Oregon, Colorado and California.
One leading environmentalist backing the bill confirmed that the goal is to eliminate single slices of cheese packaged in non-reusable plastic, as well as other wasteful packaging.
“We have to do something about the plastic crisis,” said Judith Enck, president of the group Beyond Plastics.
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Run screaming from New Jerk state.
They would HATE Japan then.. even their cookies are individually wrapped.
What’s the environmental damage caused by 10 million illegal aliens coming into our country
“It would also impose a fee on companies that use plastic packages, with money going toward recycling programs and infrastructure. “
Morons - the vast majority of the material that goes into the recycling bins of recycling programs never gets recycled.
Top secret plan after that is to end sliced bread.
The electric power used to slice could go to charging EVs.
Also, you’ll get a bounty if you see someone with a straw at a restaurant or cafe.
Dear New York, embrace mass hangings of the left. Televise/stream it. You’ll make billions and billions, raise the IQ of your state, and bring immeasurable joy to your population. However, you’ll have to figure out where to dispose of the remains since no sane red state wants that crap anywhere near them.
Again, embrace those mass hangings.
Whew. Good to know New Yawk got all their other issues fixed and they can take on the menace of sliced cheese.
Most individual wrapped cheesy things are not remotely actual cheese.
I buy a thing of Kraft singles once every year cause there are some summer things that need a pasteurized process almost cheese.
Fortunately my local deli will slice cheese with a piece of waxed paper between each slice, probably this would be exemt
I hate intrusive nanny-state government, but packaging has run amok! Wrapped single slices of cheese is a good example. I just pull out the block of cheese and cut off what I want.
My eyes are dry and I use eye drops. My eye doc says the preservatives in eye drops can actually aggravate your eye discomfort and he recommended single-use eye drops. That packaging is the WORST of all — lots of plastic and little product.
And every one of those TWENTY MILLION dropping 40 pounds of wasted along the trail on their track northward. Ranchers in TX, NM, AZ and CA say the amount of waste they drop is staggering.
Good bye yellow brick cheese slices.
And they’re individually wrapped fent, meth or heroin portions. The wrappers get tossed on the sidewalks.
.. heroin, like that of other northeastern U.S. cities, is sold with competing brand labelling (small, postage-stamp-size glassine packets stamped with popular brands like “Toyota” or “Nike” or black- humor names like “Deathwish”). In Philadelphia, it is further packed inside tiny ziplock bags (see Figure 2). These products can also be bought as a small stack of bags held together with a rubber band known as a “bundle” of 12-14 bags for $80-110, the most common way to buy a larger quantity. ...
From researchgate.net
That’s exactly why we got rid of our recycle bin in Idaho. There are just two of us and we don’t generate much waste. Recycling was just stupid.
No more Plastic Cheese?
Let my heart continue to beat....
RE: Good bye yellow brick cheese slices.
Then “police said the man was obviously unbalanced. Glassy eyes. Shouting.
He said “That’s it. That’s the end. No am radio in my new car. You took my gas stove. My leaf blower. Now you took away my cheese.” He opened fire with two automatic weapons before taking his own life following the tragic murder spree.”
It’s a stretch to call that stuff “cheese” anything.
In 1943, the War Foods Administration banned the sale of sliced bread, because it was considered wasteful.
The ban lasted all of two months.
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