I was very disappointed to read this morning that Union City, CA (a town on the east side of the San Francisco Bay) decided to reverse their planned ban on the use of polystyrene food containers in restaurants. On June 24th, the Union City council had voted to prohibit restaurants from using polystyrene, only to reverse this ban in their second vote on Tuesday night.
Evidently, the city council has decided to recycle the polystyrene rather than to ban it.
However, it is not cost effective to recycle polystyrene and it could put recyclers out of business to try and do so. In addition, Union City is missing the point - it is not just about recycling polystyrene. Polystyrene can leach styrene, a known carcinogen, into food. In addition, the manufacturing process of polystyrene causes horrible pollution, as pointed out in my earlier blog entry.
I hope that the citizens of Union City will speak up and voice their concerns over this decision.
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