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Your government at work: Styrofoam and plastic are back on the table.
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It may not be as dramatic as Ronald Reagan's ripping the solar panels off of the White House, but House Republicans are once again gleefully flexing their antienvironmental muscles, this time bringing Styrofoam cups and plastic utensils back to the Capitol cafeteria to replace biodegradable ones. "The new majority—plasticware is back," House leader John Boehner Tweeted on Monday. (Boehner made his fortune in the plastics industry.)
THE DETAILS: With the phasing out of the biodegradable materials in the Capitol cafeteria, the House is also putting the brakes on the composting program used to turn those materials back into healthy, nontoxic soil amendments for Capitol landscaping. Take that, earthworms!
Committee on House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren, (R-Calif.) says House Republicans cut the composting program and brought back plastic to save money—$475,000 a year. According to the House Office of Inspector General (IG), the compost program also increased energy use for the pulping process and hauling to the compost facility. It's not clear if the IG considered hauling plastic to the landfill—where it will never break down—in its report, or if the healthcare costs involved with Styrofoam (polystyrene) chemicals were analyzed. Styrofoam is classified as a probable human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
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Gov't Trashes Compost, Brings Back Styrofoam
Why should this surprise anyone?? The State of Michigan uses styrofoam in there prison chow halls everyday without ever thinking of recycling ANYTHING!
When it comes to the health of the public government has always put a low dollar value on it.
Gov't Trashes Compost, Brings Back Styrofoam
No surprise here. Any discontinuation of plastic use hits the oil industry big time. It would be interesting to see the money trail ending with these policy makers.
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Plastic and styrofoam back in Capital cafeteria
I am OUTRAGED at this! If I could afford to fly to DC. I would! Any petitions we can sign going around about this? I am sickened and a bit depressed but thanks for the info
One mildly satisfying side effect
The only positive note I can think of is that the people who decided to do this will be the ones eating out of the Styrofoam and thus perhaps most likely to suffer the ill health effects. Of course since we all pay for their medical care the satisfaction of that is short-lived at best.