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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
NEW YORK — The new year means no more plastic foam coffee cups, takeout containers or packing peanuts in most places in the nation's largest city.
New York City's long-planned ban took effect on Tuesday. The prohibition includes food containers and loose packing fill made from what's known as expanded polystyrene. Exceptions include butcher-counter containers for raw meat.
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Expanded polystyrene used to be a waste from a manufacturing process; Dow chemical would dispose of it by floating it down the Saginaw river until they figured out they could make saleable products out of it.
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Last edited by Keith Seymore; 01-02-2019 at 02:06 PM.
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