The top Democrat and former Speaker said that the House will now send 535 more tons of waste to landfills due to a change in policy under the GOP-held House.
That works out to 259,740.25 cups for each member of Congress.
I get the feeling she's exaggerating.
She is lying!
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Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” Initiative Turns out to be Massive Waste of Resources
The LA Times has an excellent report detailing the miserable failure of Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” initiative which involved using “cornstarch-based knives, forks and spoons” instead of plastic. Per all supposed “green initiatives,” rather than save resources, it wasted them, en masse.
It turns out that the composting program not only cost the House an estimated $475,000 a year (according to the House inspector general) but actually increased energy consumption in the form of “additional energy for the pulping process and the increased hauling distance to the composting facility,” according to a news release from Lungren.
As far as carbon emissions were concerned, Lungren concluded that the reduction was the “nominal ... equivalent to removing one car from the road each year.” He plans to switch the House to an alternate waste-management system recommended by the Architect of the Capitol, in which dining-service trash would be incinerated and the heat energy captured.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=34537
I get the feeling she's exaggerating.
Good one, it would seem so. LOL!