(New York City) Sanitation Dept. Wants Styrofoam Use To-Go

[freshwest]

9. Get rid of it. There are plenty of substitutes. Good move.

I live in an area that is extreme on the recycling, conservation, alternative energy, etc. You have to personally transport styrofoam to one place in the entire state to get it recycled.

Everything else from batteries, plastic, glass, metals, well, everything is recycled. The city got rid of styrofoam in restaurants and they simply put the food in compostable cardboard. And we're phasing out plastic bags at the grocery stores, although we can recycle them too. They still cause problems.

The emphasis is on bring your own bag or container or take what you need from a store without a bag, and eliminating paper. No reason to keep styrofoam.

After all, we're not too stupid to change, are we?