Kudos to the City of Santa Monica! Our City Council just took a bold, proactive step in addressing contamination by styrofoam disposables: ban the stuff altogether.
Council member Kevin McKeown championed a more expansive ban, including non-recyclable plastics in addition to styrofoam. Key to the discussion is styrofoam and plastics' impacts on our marine environment - these nasty synthetics stick around for an eternity, endangering wildlife, choking ecosytems, and spoiling our surf sessions.
How will this affect businesses? What sort of price tag will this carry? And might there be an opportunity to encourage more people to bring their own containers for carry out?
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Hi there Anna, how r u? I'm happy to tell you that I've started knitting those collected plastic bags (while waiting around at my shop), and it's beena great project for me. Now I'm running out of plastic bags and my tote bag isn't finished...:-D
Here's link to my post: (pls copy and paste cause link is long...no space in between)
http://saya--myphilosophy.blogspot.com/
2006/06/used-plastic-bags-knitting.html
So have you started yours? :-)
Just as an FYI -- More Hip than Hippie is encouraging people to take their own takeout containers -- their most recent podcast's about their experience doing just that :)
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