Supervisors to vote on Styrofoam ban

This makes a lot of sense. I get my biodegradable cups and containers from www.green-tooth.com.

Whether styrofoam is recyclable or not, it is one of the worst forms of plastic. It takes so loooong(thousands years!) to decompose them. It's just crazy! Of course, the material is basically from OIL. When temperature hot liquid or food are served on styrofoam or plastics, there is a risk of drinking/eating some chemicals/oil leaching from the containers. It is bad for human/animal/earth's health from the beginning of creating them to the end(trashing them). No good for us. Why do plastic things like, plastic bags and styrofoam are cheap when gas price is soaring? It doesn't make any sense. Plastic and styrofoam break into smaller pieces, which could be eaten by wild animals and it causes death of precious wild animals. So, not buying them and using them is the most effective way! Be smart and protect yourself, our next generations, and the earth. We also have to solve this problem in less-developed countries.

It's such a delight to hear how successful the styrofoam ban has been going. It's unusual to find out that something that was so common was unhealthy to the environment. I grew to know the truth. Luckily, we have seen less and less of these containers. Hopefully SFE can reach out to all food chains, restaurants, grocery stores, and even liquor stores to discontinue the sale of styrofoam products. It would be beneficial for us all.

Um, Styrofoam is recyclable. It's normally just cheaper not to recycle it and use new materials instead.

Nice job, now how about working with the fast food establishments, particularly those in Western SOMA since a survey of the trash that we pick up in our neighborhood , while not styrofoam, seems to be McDonald's paper cups, paper bags, plastic cup lids and straws. While at it, how about getting the daily free newspaperd (all of them including the SF Bay Guardian which seems to do "no wrong") and somehow figure out a solution to the discarded paper By the way, I think its a real waste to publish the city dailies since the paper is seldom recycled. Yes yes, freedom of the press is very important but once paper is "on the street" no one ever picks it up to recycle it.