https://doee.dc.gov/foambantip
Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia – Muriel Bowser, Mayor
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Use this form to submit a tip if you observe a District business or organization in violation of one of the following policies:
Food Service Ware Requirements – Use of:
- Foam for food service ware (cups, plates, bowls, take-out containers, etc.)
- Single-use plastic straws and/or stirrers (with an exception for plastic straws requested for medical need)
- Mixed material items like paper bags with plastic windows and paper-lined foil sandwich wraps
Retail Foam Ban – Sale of:
- Foam food service ware (cups, plates, bowls, clamshells, etc.)
- Foam storage containers (ice chests, coolers, etc.)
- Foam packing materials (packing peanuts)
Utensils by Request (NEW Starting January 1st, 2022)
- Submit a tip if you observe that a 3rd party food ordering platform (Uber Eats, Grub Hub, Door Dash, etc.) does not have the option for you to request utensils, condiment packets, and other small disposable food accessory items.
- Submit a tip if a food-serving entity included utensils, condiment packets, and other small disposable food accessory items in your order without your request.
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Here’s a tip for DC: GFY.
Do the law-enforcers of DC not have anything more serious to worry about?
Fewer plastic straw users carry lethal weapons. Cops are safer going after them.
Only the stuff the Dems tell them they Don’t have to worry about like…
Crime…
…assault
…burglary
…kidnapping
…rape
…property destruction
…murder
You know…the small stuff
It seems that they can supply plastic straws and the other plastic items, provided they don’t give them ‘unsolicited’. Could be easy to get round. Downright rebellion might be better though.
Oh, that makes it so much better, that it’s only “straw solicitation” that’s banned … so apparently they have to require operators to employ audio-video security monitoring of every seat at every table or bar at every restaurant to ensure there is no soliciting? Or force every server to wear body cams?
Or, maybe DC needs 3 thousand straw cops, not 3
Schild und Schwert der Partei
The Ministry of Straw Security !!
; >)
Do they even make any audio-video security monitoring equipment that doesn’t contain plastic?
“Foam cups” are made of polystyrene. Now I am pretty sure that polystyrene degrades if exposed to sunlight. Please, if I am wrong, let me know, but I have it on good authority. if you leave the cup in the sunlight for a year, it will break down to CO2 and H2O. Nothing toxic. Nothing bad for “The Environment”.
Now I do not approve of throwing foam cups out the window as you drive along. Totally unOK, because it is messy. But the environment is not harmed.
Agreed! However, it’s not really about the environment: it’s really about taxation and control by instilling fear about an Imaginary Hobgoblin, amplified by offering relief from that fear by way of compliance to some arbitrary code of conduct, usually involving donations. The comfort people experience by compliance is real but, in my opinion, obtained by deception on the part of the comforter.
Most modern “foam” cups are make of biodegradable material.
No. Polystyrene along with most other plastics takes a lot longer to degrade than that.
The facts are that nearly all plastics do, in time, degrade. Especially in sunlight. But the facts also are that this can be a long time indeed.
in the case of styrofoam, around 500 years…Or longer. Styrene is particularly stable …In time plastics will be developed that degrade faster.
Problem with that is they will start to degrade in the store or pantry … Law of unintended consequences
Won’t last 3 months in Arizona, PVC only last a few years out in the sun, Plastic bags turn to dust in couple of months. Plastic buckets shatter in a couple of years. Leo, do you want to buy a bridge.
you are so WRONG…if plastics that are not specifically treated for UV exposure, they will break down in sunlight fairly quickly…weeks…the issue is…they bury them in a landfill with no UV…so YES…they will last for mega years…that is why they make great materials for so many applications. Much like wood…paint wood on the side of a house and it will last as long as the paint…don’t paint it…and it will degrade (some call ROT) in some number of years…keep painting it…no known life expediency…same with plastics
Dunno if it degrades or not BUT if you mix it with gasoline it melts and the combination is akin to napalm
Yes sir, we take chunks of styrofoam and “melt” them in lacquer thinner to create a jelly like glue. It’s great for repairing damaged and cracked plastic parts. Older cars that have broken plastic trim on the dash panel and any other plastic parts that would otherwise not be salvageable, the glue works great. Keep the glue in a mason jar with the lid closed and it will last more than a year.
That’s probably the real reason they don’t want us having them 🙂
The use of plastic where not essential is really polluting the environment. If the populous will not limit single use plastic voluntarily is it not right to use a heavy hand? I’m sure most on here recognise that plastic pollution is a problem.
“plastic pollution is a problem.”
Here is the ultimate single use plastic.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/sweetwater-wind-turbine-blades-dump/
from that link:
“GE says it paid the company $16.9 million to recycle about five thousand wind turbine blades”
How are blades recycled?
As you see in the above inset image
Right, that’s the reality- but how do they claim they will do it? Does anyone actually recycle the blades? Or just bury them? Do any laws require recycling them?
There have been some efforts to grind them up and use them as filler in road beds, a common approach for a number of unmanageable left overs. That might find a place for 1 or 2 %.
Clockwise, I think.
““The use of plastic where not essential is really polluting the environment” “
g.half-runt really put its foot in its gob that time. !! 🙂
Everything already comes in Single Use Plastic or goes out that way
Glad Trash Bags (used to get free trash bags… second use grocery bags)
Bread
Rice Cakes
Cheese
Some butter and margarine
Cream Cheese
Yogurt
Deli Meats
Pre wrapped butcher meats
Paper Plates
Paper towels (double wrapped in plastic)
Paper Napkins
Paper Cups
Plastic Cups
T-Paper
Frozen vegetables
Frozen Fries
Frozen Burritos
Frozen Chicken Wings
Frozen Ready Bake Bread
Potato Chips
Tortilla Chips
Beef Jerky
*Apple Sauce
*Fruit Cups
Bulk Cereals
*Liquid Laundry Soap
*Laundry Pods
*Bleach
*Dish Soap
*Dishwasher Pods
*Cleaning Liquids
*Condiments
*Cold Drinks
(* hard plastic containers that are recyclable)
Plastic Straws come in paper wrappers
Paper Straws come in plastic wrappers (to prevent them from contacting moisture early)
Half the grocery store is packaged in single use plastic that really has no possible second uses…so why fret about or charge me for plastic grocery bags which work better in the rain anyway?
The plastic, where essential, is also polluting the environment
What do you use in your trash compactor or kitchen trash can or bathroom trash cans
Glad Bags
Ghalfrunt, To continue you must verify…
Dang…every square has plastic
You want that heavy hand so bad
So it’s bad to throw away plastic straws “for the environment” … it’s so much better to force everyone to reuse straws that are effectively non-washable and non-sanitizable. After all, it’s only humans who die of communicable disease … who cares about THEM.
“Glass or stainless steel straws are the best choices…”
This is a load of cobblers too.
Neither is biodegradable, and they can be extremely dangerous for people using them…
… one bump and a person can make a real mess of their mouth.. I know that because it happened once to a friend.
Apart from that they, cannot be cleaned properly to remove germs etc
Plastics are essential for modern life but do we really need drinking straws?
Do we really need modern life?
“do we really need modern life?”
Find the plastic drinking straws…
1100 cars probably at least 1 plastic straw in 3/4 of them so 775 plastic straws in the picture?
YES!
Life in the past was often short and difficult for the majority, much the same as it is now in less prosperous countries and dictatorships, so yes, we do need modern life.
I choose the convenience and relative safety that fossil fuels have brought us.
Can you trust that the restaurant dishwasher really did a good job on the water glass? Or that the server really washed their hands after using the bathroom?
Plus open top drinking while driving on most roads can be a dangerous mix
We’d never do anything if we constantly worried about how clean something was.
Can you trust the chef has washed his hands?
No. But we eat in restaurants anyway.
YES… You cannot drink a good thick-shake without a large diameter plastic straw.
Paper straws are totally useless after 2 slurps.
Or you could just use your mouth
Only if you are a heathen 😉
No, you can’t!
do we need disposal diapers?
do we need condoms?
do we need any plastic utensils at all?
the range of cost/value of personal vehicles is around $12,000 to $120,000; do we really need any personal vehicles that have extras over and above $50,000?
Does the typical person really really need to have more than 2,600 calories per day?
Feminine hygiene products are offered with cardboard in lieu of plastic … do we really need plastic as an option here?
The Greater Hobart Area (including the ‘Cities of Glenorchy and Clarence) have banned single use plastics for condiments – despite 99.9% of available retail offerings being already wrapped in single use plastics.
The cost if selling these ‘hygienically sealed condiments’ is up to $1448 AUD per business, per day.
Public Food Poisoning is inherently preferable to Public Food Safety…
This is a lovely example of how balance and moderation have gone out of the window since “environmental protection” became a darling of the trendy set.
Remember that video of a plastic drinking straw being removed from the nose of a turtle?
https://www.zmonline.com/video/severely-lodged-plastic-straw-removed-from-sea-turtles-nose/
That single event seems to have set in motion a huge reaction that includes we are told, 3 people employed as straw cops, we assume with salary.
Some might think this is an overkill. I do.
Also, maybe a plastic straw is easier to estract than a steel one would be, but steel is nominated as better.
..
Change of scene to Australia, another topic, related.
A Federal Minister Tanya Plibersek has used Australian aboriginal heritage protection (note that word “protection” again) to halt development of a new mine near the town of Orange. In essence, the impediment is a tree ot two that is scarred by removal of some bark some time ago, plus a new claim of a traditional song line relating to a “blue banded bee” that other aborigines claim is a fabrication, plus some alleged burial sites and questionable camp ovens..
Again, it is a matter of balance. Is preservagion of a few old trees etc more in the public interest than a big new gold mine said to be worth $1,000 million?
Where has rationality gone?
…
More scene change.
Brngs back memories of the mid 1980s after colleagues had discovered then developed what was the world’s largest and richest new uranium mines (but not for long, as Canadians gazumped that title shortly after). The Ranger mine is now worked out and rehabilitating, but the large land area around the mines that we were exploring was essentially taken from us, legally granted mining leases and exploration licences included, by the leftist federal Government declaring a huge national park, then colluding with the united nations world heritage group to list it with a provision that all forms of mineral activity are banned forever. We were offered no compensation, despite demonstrating the presence of some new locations with ore grades in drill holes. These places now sit idle.
They are like the Jabiluka uranium mine, a few km north of Ranger, a wonderful resource stopped in its tracks again with the excuse of “protection” of the aboriginal cultural environment. It now sits idle, worth in excess of $20 billion. But, these local folk knew nought about uranium or mining until we taught them.
…..
i can give example after example where “environment protection” is out of balance with prevkious development plans. It is now at the stage where all major new projects have to pass hurdles that are iften unrealisgtic because of the lack of balance. he protection might please some green thinkers, but it has negative overall economic effects, sometimes in very large dollar amounts.
Geoff S
“claim of a traditional song line relating to a “blue banded bee”’, aka, the oral history.
Not always consistent with the written history…
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2021-10-11-indigenous-peoples-day-special
Yet the Pleb will allow wind farms on huge areas of pristine highland wilderness.
She truly is a disgusting, immoral piece of human trash.
Boy, I sure hope this doesn’t eat into the mattress tag police budget.
How about serious enforcement and prosecution of littering offenses? Jail the litterers and leave the innocent alone!
Paper straws and reusable shopping bags take 10 to 20 times the energy to produce, when compared to single use plastic, by the way.
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo, I know, get 10,000 plastic straws from Costco. Then go to every Starbucks in the DC area and Spike their straws with Plastic Straws. Then call the Rat Patrol on them…no more Coffee in DC!
The BBC Radio comedy series “Dead Ringers” a few years back did a brilliant satire on the advert from a certain food store that was amongst the first to start charging for carrier bags “to reduce packaging”.
Let actual crime run rampant while being laser-focused on nonsense like this.
Defund. Fire them all.
And yet millions (billions?) of non-recyclable non-reusable face masks were dumped in landfills or the streets during covid.
If Comrad Kamala says we need plastic police I guess we need plastic police. Get ready for it in 2025.
“Straw police” are part of AOC’s “Green jobs” economy. Everyone will get a few bucks for reporting on their neighbor. Household thermostat police are next.
I’ve seen videos of crooks stealing stuff off of store shelves and filling plastic bags before running out of the store without paying. Maybe now they’ll do something about it.
you mean that the straw police might address those ne’er-do-wells that don’t pay the nickel/dime that is required for the bag … my guess is that the penalty would be assessed against the store if the straw police are given this latitude.:)
Paper vs Plastic.
Why compromise?
“Straw police”
You could argue it’s a perfect employment opportunity for straw men !!
See what I did there (:-))
What I’m looking forward to is the squeals of anguish from some of the youngsters when their little plastic bottles of water are replaced with glass bottles.
The government needs to quit telling people what to do. Government doesn’t know a damn thing.
I support paper straws if they have quotes from Orwell’s 1984 printed on them. And are coated with plastic.
Mao, Hitler, the Bolsheviks, & Walz imposed snitching.
Only a couple years ago I was reading about how the DCFD was struggling. They didn’t have the money to properly maintain their trucks. Repairs in the shop would take several weeks. Firefighters would violate policy to repair their own trucks and sometimes even paid for the parts themselves.
But this is their concern.