Bloomberg’s Latest Target: Styrofoam
NEWSER) – The healthification of New Yorkers continues, whether they want it or not. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has forced restaurants to post calorie counts, increased smoking bans, and taken away jumbo sodas. Now he’s aiming to eliminate Styrofoam containers. Yes, the Bloomberg administration is thinking about a ban on all Styrofoam cups and containers, as part of the mayor’s pledge to double household recycling to 30% of all garbage by 2017. “The [recycling] machinery wasn’t really built to handle Styrofoam,” said a city sanitation official. “If something is not recyclable, we want to find an alternative for that packaging or product.” The effort would be a green one in more ways than one: Recycling earns the city money, reports the New York Post. Garbage costs $86 per ton to process, while recycling earns the city $10 to $14 per ton, depending on the substance. Plenty of restaurants and food trucks are predictably outraged at the latest proposed intrusion, but officials note that several other cities (ie, Seattle) already have Styrofoam bans.
Half the city is still in ruins from Hurricane Sandy. Subway deaths every other day. But lets crack down on the styrofoam! First thing’s first, anyone who believes in recycling is a sucker. Recycling is the biggest sham of all time. If you actually think they separate the glass and the plastic and the cardboard and they boil it down and smush it together and reuse those materials for something you’re just an idiot. Garbage is garbage. Period.
Anyway, back to the styrofoam. I kinda like styrofoam. First and foremost because I like to chew on them and leave teeth marks along the rim. But also particularly because styrofoam like the most damaging material known to Earth’s environment. I think styrofoam is like the only matter on earth that can withstand nuclear holocaust. Its the most harmful, man made, artificial, thing we’ve ever produced. Thats so American. I kinda wanna preserve that American message of “We don’t give a fuck about the environment or the future.” Leave that shit for Seattle. Here in New York I wanna preserve that way of life. Kinda like Denis Leary in his Asshole song. I wanna smoke cigarettes and drink 64 ozs of salty soda in Styrofoam cups! And when I’m done suckin’ down that bucket of Coke I’m gonna wipe my mouth on the American flag and then toss the Styrofoam cups right out the side, and there ain’t a God-damned thing anybody can do about it. You know why? Because we got the bombs, that’s why!


hate styrofoam the noise it makes is like reading a neil blog
Had to revisit this song after that solid reference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs
wait, what?
“anyone who believes in recycling is a sucker. Recycling is the biggest sham of all time.” A+, spot on. Anyone who recycles is either a hippie and/or a pole smoker
KFC why is Michelle Fields getting at you?
jmac’s writing is quickly catching up to styrofoam as the most damaging material to earth’s environment
You mean kind of like the teeth marks Neil leaves behind on his boyfriends pillowcase?
i hope a blind handicap hondorus man poisons your styrofoam donut flavored bud light and you die a terribly ironic death
bill hicks > denis leary. i’m a boston guy but leary clearly stole just about his entire smoking/asshole/1990s act from hicks.
@finkle, truth, but in doing so he gave Hicks more exposure than hicks would have gotten otherwise, if that makes any sense. Leary was (somehow) more pop-culture friendly.
did independence day teach you nothing? Do you know how long it takes for those cups to decompose?
if you hate styrofoam, then i hate you. keeps drinks colder and food hotter. shit is the bomb. and fuck michelle fields too. liberal horse faced cunt
styrofoam is why you can get a cup of coffee in nyc for 2 bucks
some squid in my health class was going off about their environmental dangers, needless to say i gave him an atomic wedgie, sprinkled him with styrofoam, and stuffed him in a locker. Odoyle rules
Its a war on Dunkin Donuts… all they use is styrofoam cups… unless you get a small and what kind of pussy gets a small. its a war on America because America runs on dunkin’.
if you think being anti-recycling makes you tough, you definitely have a tiny penis.
Why do you think Chick Fil A uses styrofoam? Shit works like it should. Keeps my drink cold forever. Not like that wax paper shit cups everywhere else. Bloomberg, go fuck yourself.
typical fucking republican, get off our asses!