Why are they only banning it for orcas and salmon? They barely use them
Ah, the old Lemmy foam-a-roo.
I’d love a ban on single use plastics in general. There are alternatives to that horrible plastic packaging that toys use, which completely fill your garbage can with about 10 pieces of plastic.
Same with lots of food plastic, which used stuff like cardboard, wax paper, balsa wood, newspaper, glass, or aluminum back as recently as a handful of years ago.
I’ve switched to alternatives just because they pack down easier, and I’m not taking the garbage out with six plastic containers anymore.
All types of blisters, whether this box type or the one that needs firefighter grade pneumatic cutters to open, ought to be banned entirely. Even medical applications no longer use them!
How was this not already banned? It’s like hearing that they just banned punching bus drivers. Congrats and all, but how was that not already a law?
Honestly I thought it was here. It definitely already was in Seattle. I have not seen styrofoam for drinks outside of the South for over a decade.
I can walk 7 streets away from my house and styrofoam cup drinks from any of 9 different fast food places all condensed onto one street here in Cleveland.
Hell, in the summer I can go to CVS or Walgreens and buy a cooler you bring to the beach with beer and vodka inside. The whole cooler is made of styrofoam.
Hell, about a decade ago KFC even made a sandwich that was just made of styrofoam. Called it the double down.
…oh, my appologies. Apperently the double down was made of chicken…it only TASTED like styrofoam!
I think I have seen crappy styrofoam coolers a couple years ago for 4th of July. Those at least are meant to have containers inside of them. Drinks though, especially acidic ones, are nuts to put in styrofoam. That shit breaks down pretty easily which means it is going straight into your drink.
I’ve had the Double Down because it was an absurd idea. Mine tasted like an entire shaker of salt.
Biodegradable myco-alternative to styrofoam - https://www.mushroommaterial.com/
It’s so simple to replace so many common hazardous materials.
Every time a new state or country bans environmentally disastrous, carcinogenic products, an angel gets its wings.
