Sentences with phrase «foam containers»

Some even slide into the pews carrying coffee in plastic foam containers as if they're going to Starbucks.

Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai announced the initiative last year to ban plastic bags, drinking straws and polystyrene foam containers in order to protect the environment and oceans and to keep the country «clean and safe.»

The New York State Assembly minority leader appeared in front of a New York City council committee this week, urging officials to halt a proposal that would ban plastic foam containers in the city.

Food establishments, stores, and manufacturers in New York City may not possess, sell, or offer to customers plastic foam containers as of July 1 and thus will be seeking alternative materials.

Ron Dellums, former congressman and mayor, calls for recycling foam containers rather than banning them.

At the center of the industry's efforts to block a ban is Intro 1480, a bill that would declare polystyrene foam containers recyclable.

It's also not the first time issues like this one have split liberal Democrats: several were initially opposed to a ban on plastic foam containers because of what they said would be a negative impact on small businesses.

Despite spending $ 126,000 this year alone on lobbying council members and the mayor's office to not enact a ban, Dart Container Corp., the leading manufacturer of polystyrene foam containers, is slowly losing support on 1480.

When Dart sued the city over the last attempted ban, it won on the grounds that the ban was not sufficiently rooted in facts about the feasibility of recycling foam containers.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg earlier this year proposed a ban on food and beverage plastic foam containers, or polystyrene foam.

After spending more than $ 1.5 million to preserve its market share in New York City, the foam container industry is losing the latest battle in a four - year war over banning the ubiquitous take - out and beverage containers.

Since 2013, when the city first took up in earnest the fight to ban polystyrene foam containers, a protracted fight between environmentalists and industry supporters has been waged in the streets, in the courts and in City Hall.

Juanita Scarlett, who works for Park Strategies and has served as a spokeswoman for the industry's recent efforts, said the lobbying is meant to convince legislators that the foam containers can be recycled and can save the city money if they were to allow it.

Bronx Democratic Councilman Fernando Cabrera introduced a bill in March requiring households to separate polystyrene foam containers and recycle them.

Restaurant, manufacturing and recycling groups have sued to stop New York City's proposed ban on plastic foam containers.

In Albany County, a new law will prohibit chain establishments from selling any prepared food or drink in a polystyrene foam container.

Single - use plastics such as dining and takeout disposables (i.e. plastic cutlery, straws, foam containers), sachets (thin, pouch - like items used to package consumables like shampoo or condiments) and most food packaging have made it more convenient to purchase and use products on the go.

In the layers from recent years, you find such anthropogenic gases as the chlorofluorocarbons used for aerosol spray cans, refrigerators, and foam containers.