In The Foaming

Citywide Styrofoam-Container Ban Expected to Pass

I will remember you.
I will remember you. Photo: iStockphoto

Start hoarding those clamshells and supersize cups — if you’re into that kind of thing — because the ban on polystyrene containers is all but guaranteed to pass, Crain’s reports, despite a last-ditch effort on the part of the pro-foam contingent and Big Styro, which essentially offered to fund recycling operations themselves. However creative the plan to turn all those nearly indestructible food containers into picture frames was, exactly, tomorrow’s City Council vote will likely go in favor of the ban, which would take effect in 2015. Plastic bags and sporks: You’re next. [Crains, Earlier, Earlier]

Citywide Styrofoam-Container Ban Expected to Pass