Styrofoam products to be banned come 2019

[redmanjp]

http://www.looptt.com/content/styrofoam-products-be-banned-come-2019

[hydroep]

So...what Massy go use now for their bakery, meat and vegetable packaging?...

[maj. tom]

Excellent. Next step is to ban plastic drinking straws. We're finally getting somewhere!

[ruffneck_12]

Ban mercury bulbs too

It's as outdated as CRT tv's/monitors, and LED's are much more efficient and simpler to power.
and well............ mercury does kinda be harmful too nah boy.

Making progress though

[ProtonPowder]

Kudos for making this decision, but we go see gouging because of it.

If the alternative packaging for identical sizes cost a few cents extra per unit, expect for it to be rounded up to the dollar, as per usual with the operations of food outlets.

[Les Bain]

Good initiative but it still shameful a tiny tropical island like ours took so long to do this. Seems less am initiative and more a late stage bandwagon hop. We could have embraced recycling since Chase Charlie Away.

[Dizzy28]

However late we are this is a good move.

[randolphinshan]

However late we are this is a good move.

Fack them I like my white oak in a styro cup... Sterile business. Do not trust those barmen with those glass.

[No_Name]

Good initiative but it still shameful a tiny tropical island like ours took so long to do this. Seems less am initiative and more a late stage bandwagon hop. We could have embraced recycling since Chase Charlie Away.

So true...

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

What are we doing about all the plastic? that is another thing that needs to be banned. Make people pay for biodegradable or something, ban all them plastic bottle, bags and straws.

[hong kong phooey]

Nice, About time . i believe there is a worm thats eats styrofaom , but i think it will become a pest if introduced .

[airuma]

Good initiative but it still shameful a tiny tropical island like ours took so long to do this. Seems less am initiative and more a late stage bandwagon hop. We could have embraced recycling since Chase Charlie Away.

Real ole Skool person talking! It’s amazing how those simple methods of public education were so effective but now, even with all of the social media, we don’t see it in any form.

[screwbash]

ban kfc and coke too as they causing heart disease and diabetes.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

ban kfc and coke too as they causing heart disease and diabetes.

Coke Zero tastes just as good as doesn't cause any issues.

[ProtonPowder]

ban kfc and coke too as they causing heart disease and diabetes.

Banning food items is a really short sighted thing because of how easily it can change.

Ban foreign fried chicken? what about local fried chicken?
Banned local fried chicken too? What about all the tiny eateries that sell fried chicken too, who policing that.
So now if you successfully ban fried chicken, everywhere going to switch to another method that barely scrapes past the legislation, example: Mexican chicken

Same goes for coke too

[rspann]

ban kfc and coke too as they causing heart disease and diabetes.

They don't have to ban it. You can just stop buying

[2NR Smurf]

So no more nisin cup noodles?

[Ben_spanna]

Ban campers at our nations beaches, Ban the people who down to Anchorage Bay Area every weekend and leave their trail of garbage therefor others to clean up. Just ban people who litter from enjoying any of our natural sites.

[screwbash]

ban kfc and coke too as they causing heart disease and diabetes.

Banning food items is a really short sighted thing because of how easily it can change.

Ban foreign fried chicken? what about local fried chicken?
Banned local fried chicken too? What about all the tiny eateries that sell fried chicken too, who policing that.
So now if you successfully ban fried chicken, everywhere going to switch to another method that barely scrapes past the legislation, example: Mexican chicken

Same goes for coke too

look in most rivers after flood and is kfc boxes, coke and blue water bottels and styrofoam boxes and cups. dem chinee swithc to carboard boxes in some areas now you go see at set of dat in the rivers.

[whizzard]

ban kfc and coke too as they causing heart disease and diabetes.

Coke Zero tastes just as good as doesn't cause any issues.

Keep telling yourself that

[hydroep]

The big question is whether or not current crop of manufacturers/distributors can successfully make the switch to biodegradable materials.

Hope this new policy isn't some clever ruse to give a "select few" new business opportunities...

[Rovin]

[ek4ever]

Ban campers at our nations beaches, Ban the people who down to Anchorage Bay Area every weekend and leave their trail of garbage therefor others to clean up. Just ban people who litter from enjoying any of our natural sites.

So basically 99.999% of Trinis

[88sins]

very good move.
if were lucky this could open up an entirely new manufacturing sector that would develop biodegradable food containers, could be hemp or even paper based. might even eventually become an internationally marketable alternative.

[Melchizedek]

manufacture or assemble ? we will need a paper mill to manufacture biodegradable paper and other tree-free materials at an international level

[pugboy]

How about locking up people for littering

[Melchizedek]

the legally challenging part is linking the evidence to the perpetrator

[maj. tom]

Ban campers at our nations beaches, Ban the people who down to Anchorage Bay Area every weekend and leave their trail of garbage therefor others to clean up. Just ban people who litter from enjoying any of our natural sites.

So basically 99.999% of Trinis

Gone Pricesmart today. A set of trolley-carts haphazardly near the entrance with all sort of food items, cups spilled with soda inside the cart, half eaten pizza and all the other nasty junk they sell in the food court. Food wrappers all over the ground. And the trolleys parked right next to the the 2 big blue bins by the door eh. It have rel, rel stink people in this country. Imagine they leaving the public in that state, what about their own homes? This kind of mentality is actually what has Trinidad in such a bad state.

[ek4ever]

Ban campers at our nations beaches, Ban the people who down to Anchorage Bay Area every weekend and leave their trail of garbage therefor others to clean up. Just ban people who litter from enjoying any of our natural sites.

So basically 99.999% of Trinis

Gone Pricesmart today. A set of trolley-carts haphazardly near the entrance with all sort of food items, cups spilled with soda inside the cart, half eaten pizza and all the other nasty junk they sell in the food court. Food wrappers all over the ground. And the trolleys parked right next to the the 2 big blue bins by the door eh. It have rel, rel stink people in this country. Imagine they leaving the public in that state, what about their own homes? This kind of mentality is actually what has Trinidad in such a bad state.

Yup, stinking doh care attitude

[88sins]

manufacture or assemble ? we will need a paper mill to manufacture biodegradable paper and other tree-free materials at an international level

true, but look at it this way
we had catered to build a hotel for a potbellied pig-looking jamaican jackass that would have cost taxpayers anywhere from 2-8 billion dollars, I seriously doubt that a large paper processing mill would cost anywhere near that, so the state could assist locals in the manufacturing sector interested in developing it with financial aid and charge a nominal interest, boosting local employment and possibly earning forex.
hell it could even be built and retained as a state owned entity, but for that it must be run with profitability and accountability as it's primary focus so as to avoid turning into Petrotrin v2.0