Posted on 01/08/2015 8:18:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
With the NYPD slowdown due to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s support for racist cop killers, no one is actually enforcing the minor rules and regulations, summonses aren’t being issued and people hop turnstiles in the subway with reckless abandon.
But petty tyrants aren’t to be deterred and Mayor Wilhelm/De Blasio has focused in on the city’s greatest enemy. Packing peanuts.
Nearly two years after Mr. Bloomberg first proposed banishing the material in his final State of the City address, de Blasio administration officials are expected to announce on Thursday that they have completed the deed.
Beginning on July 1, food establishments will be barred from using plastic foam cups or containers, compelling purveyors of curbside cart fare and Chinese takeout, among others, to find alternatives. The sale of packing peanuts within the city limits will also be prohibited, though peanut-laden parcels can still be shipped to New Yorkers from elsewhere.
For now.
Though I’m sure before too long every package that crosses city lines will be inspected by special packing peanut sniffing dachshunds.
Of course there will be no one to enforce it because the NYPD isn’t cooperating. So mayor Bill de Blasio can dispatch special community organizers with armbands and brown shirts to hunt down the evil packing peanuts.
But meanwhile New Yorkers can enjoy cold food…. for the environment.
Former Bloomberg administration officials cheered the foam’s imminent demise.
“We created and undertook the most ambitious sustainability plan in the nation,” Caswell F. Holloway, the former deputy mayor for operations, said in a statement. “This latest step is another reason why New York has become a model for cities around the world.”
Sure, keep telling yourselves that.
Nonprofits and businesses with less than $500,000 in annual revenue can apply for exemptions, which they will receive if they prove that buying other materials in place of foam would create “undue financial hardship.
What about businesses owned by black transgender gay otherkin? Surely they’ll get special exemptions too. Especially if they have Sharpton on speed dial. Or are married to Bill de Blasio.
At a cart across the street, Sammay’s Halal Food, John Flynn, 22, who works as a porter nearby, endorsed foam as the carrier of choice, particularly in the dead of winter.
“I just want to keep my food warm,” he said, his breath visible.
Enemy of the State! Mother Gaia demands his execution! John must be turned into Soylent Green immediately… for the environment.
Great idea! In the tv show "Monk", in the midst of a garbage strike, extreme OCD afflicted Monk packaged and sent his garbage to his therapist.
Speaking of Caesar, Nero held a feast, and suffocated everybody under a continuous rain of rose petals (at least according to the BBC's Supersizers).
That’s nice to know, but irrelevant, since I can’t control what others use to pack the stuff they send to me.
Can they use the biodegradable (soy?) version peanuts?
they kinds taste good too...
Which begs the question, What do they ship Styrofoam in?
The goal of this is to permit inspection of all packages.
“Packing Peanuts ...
Packing Heat ...
What else is in store in the kingdom of NY ;?”
They already got the packing fudge piece down pat.
Almost. Cafe waste probably had to go to the composting facility.
They monitored what works, and what doesn't work for composting.
>> They monitored what works, and what doesn’t work for composting.
Academics studying their own waste stream. You gotta love it.
I wouldn’t line a birdcage with the NYT.
Who’s the slave girl?
Pray America is waking
Nice family photo. I didn’t know they had 6 children.
Are the two with S—t-eating grins, twins?
Did she borrow her belt from Mooselle?
RE: This, by the way, is the most grating, obnoxious, annoying picture I have seen since Pajama boy came out more than a year ago.
C’mon, give these folks some Halloween fun. Maybe you’d like to suggest their next costume for Halloween 2015...
Sure...here's my suggestion:
Better to be taken away by people (for use), rather than having to pay to dispose of yourself.
One of his children must have a peanut allergy.
Well are cashews and almonds banned too?
Hmm. Curbside cart fare:
Chinese takeout:
Not a lot of styrofoamin' goin' on.
>> Better to be taken away by people (for use), rather than having to pay to dispose of yourself.
Yep.
7.7 million NYC people didn't vote for de Blasio.
Not that that totally excuses them.
Caligula and the Hutu queen.
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