NY environmentalists’ next target? Individually wrapped cheese slices face ban under far-reaching bill

[livingston]

NY environmentalists’ next target? Individually wrapped cheese slices face ban under far-reaching bill​

The state bill — called Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act — would require companies with net incomes over $1 million who sell or distribute food or products to reduce plastics and other packaging that ends in landfills or waterways by 50% over the next 12 years.

It would also impose a fee on companies that use plastic packages, with money going toward recycling programs and infrastructure.
Enck, who previously served as the federal regional administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency under then-President Barack Obama, said mico-plastic wrapping for cheese slices could be replaced with alternatives.

“There was a time in America when we didn’t put a piece of plastic between every slice of cheese. They can substitute plastic with paper,” she said.
Anti-plastic packaging bills have been voted out of the environmental committees in the Senate and Assembly. It will now being reviewed by the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Codes Committee.

NY environmentalists’ next target? Individually wrapped cheese slices face ban under far-reaching bill

State lawmakers are pushing sweeping legislation that aims to ban slices of cheese that are individually packaged in thin micro-plastic wrapping.

nypost.com

 

[JunkBoxFull]

You just DON`T mess with a man`s cheese, says Clint Eastwood!

 

[kev74]

I've officially lost my patience with the commies.

 

[Willyone]

NY environmentalists’ next target? Individually wrapped cheese slices face ban under far-reaching bill​

The state bill — called Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act — would require companies with net incomes over $1 million who sell or distribute food or products to reduce plastics and other packaging that ends in landfills or waterways by 50% over the next 12 years.

It would also impose a fee on companies that use plastic packages, with money going toward recycling programs and infrastructure.
Enck, who previously served as the federal regional administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency under then-President Barack Obama, said mico-plastic wrapping for cheese slices could be replaced with alternatives.

“There was a time in America when we didn’t put a piece of plastic between every slice of cheese. They can substitute plastic with paper,” she said.
Anti-plastic packaging bills have been voted out of the environmental committees in the Senate and Assembly. It will now being reviewed by the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Codes Committee.

NY environmentalists’ next target? Individually wrapped cheese slices face ban under far-reaching bill

State lawmakers are pushing sweeping legislation that aims to ban slices of cheese that are individually packaged in thin micro-plastic wrapping.

nypost.com

That's gonna piss off the greenie-boppers.... Not going to save the trees by using paper.

 

[Saltwater60]

This is so unamerican about American cheese slices. Dang commie just have to get their hands on everything.

 

[Willyone]

This is so unamerican about American cheese slices. Dang commie just have to get their hands on everything.

I like the American Cheese stuff. Some call it fake cheese, maybe, I don't know. Regardless I never buy the individually wrapped stuff. I get the stuff that's just sliced and packaged. I rather enjoy the somewhat tedious task of peeling off one slice at a time... I have no idea why lol.

 

[thegatman]

Is that what is called “cutting the cheese”?

 

[Steal2B]

I've officially lost my patience with the commies.

 

[Willyone]

Is that what is called “cutting the cheese”?

I'm still waiting for my gubb'rmnt free cheese, sliced or not.

 

[Cavalry]

I never understood the idea of the cheese condom? I buy American cheese every week sliced off the block with nothing separating it and somehow peel the slices apart with minimal problems. I actually find it faster and easier than the stupid individual wrapped ones.
Do I think the commies should regulate such a thing? Fuck no.

 

[Bigfoot]

New York is the village idiot of our country.

The armpit of America.

 

[kev74]

I would love to see the buying habits of the commies who push this shit. I bet they buy coffees in disposable cups. I bet their homes and offices are littered with half full water bottles. New electric cars every 2 years, new clothes and shoes for every fancy party. Flying all over the place for meetings and vacations....

But plastic wrap on cheese is the problem.

What a bunch of shitbags.

 

[Deplorable Me]

I would love to see the buying habits of the commies who push this shit. I bet they buy coffees in disposable cups. I bet their homes and offices are littered with half full water bottles. New electric cars every 2 years, new clothes and shoes for every fancy party. Flying all over the place for meetings and vacations....

But plastic wrap on cheese is the problem.

What a bunch of shitbags.

But they're paper shitbags.

 

[SonOfSun]

My youngest likes to eat just a cheese slice sometimes as part of his lunch. Go ahead Albany, do it. I'll just start putting them individually in ziploc bags... so even more plastic gets thrown out.

This is the same BS thing as the plastic bag ban for stores. I used to re-use them in small bathroom garbage cans and tie them up one a week on garbage day. Now I just put a full size bag in there and still take it out once a week. So now I throw away way more plastic now than before.

Albany is full of smooth brained morons.

 

[stokes]

So what if they ban plastic between the "cheese" slices, that shit aint "cheese". So nothing will change.

 

[prambo]

They can substitute plastic with paper,” she said.​

So, hold the plastic and save the oil and....fuck the trees...right?

Same as banning plastic bags - now the dollar stores are using..............you guessed it - paper bags again.

These fucking loons can't even keep their bullshit sorted properly.

Infantile morons...so tthe paper disintegrates exponentially faster than the plastic, which is in a larger plastic trash bag.

It's all making sense now -

 

[JRtraderny]

So, hold the plastic and save the oil and....fuck the trees...right?

Same as banning plastic bags - now the dollar stores are using..............you guessed it - paper bags again.

These fucking loons can't even keep their bullshit sorted properly.

Infantile morons...so tthe paper disintegrates exponentially faster than the plastic, which is in a larger plastic trash bag.

It's all making sense now -

Ahh but they get to charge you a nickel for a paper bag while Tops will sell you their left over plastic bags for 2 or 3 bucks a bundle.

 

[Cooolone]

 

[VietnamEraVet]

Here in the Carolinas, we can have all of the plastic bags we want. None of that BS here! No can and bottle deposit shit either!

 

[Keyzard]

Here in the Carolinas, we can have all of the plastic bags we want. None of that BS here! No can and bottle deposit shit either!

Same in PA. When we moved here just over a year ago I walked into the local supermarket with a reusable shopping bag out of habit. The cashier looked at me like I had two heads....

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

I like the American Cheese stuff. Some call it fake cheese, maybe, I don't know. Regardless I never buy the individually wrapped stuff. I get the stuff that's just sliced and packaged. I rather enjoy the somewhat tedious task of peeling off one slice at a time... I have no idea why lol.

Same here.

 

[Uzi]

So the government wants to ban government cheese?

 

[JunkBoxFull]

So the government wants to ban government cheese?

No, its just for us peon`s.

Next up, taxing the oxygen you breathe. Once they`ve taxed THAT away from us......

They`re ALL pretty fukkin stupid. Every one of them bite their own nose to spite face.

 

[Beerman]

Same in PA. When we moved here just over a year ago I walked into the local supermarket with a reusable shopping bag out of habit. The cashier looked at me like I had two heads....

Just drove a ways across PA recently, (border to border, twice) and I gotta say- the roadsides in PA look like a hillbilly trash dump that never ends. Mile after mile of old discarded tires, trash, garbage bags, random paper and plastic trash, garbage everywhere. It was nasty. The cleanest part of PA was the welcome center dog walking area, where no one picks up after their dog. There has to be something decent about PA, but I don’t know what it is after that trip. Sure, battlefields and Philadelphia, got that. But the garbage lined roads were truly disappointing. It’s like the people there have zero self respect to live like that.

 

[FP1201]

NY environmentalists’ next target? Individually wrapped cheese slices face ban under far-reaching bill​

The state bill — called Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act — would require companies with net incomes over $1 million who sell or distribute food or products to reduce plastics and other packaging that ends in landfills or waterways by 50% over the next 12 years.

It would also impose a fee on companies that use plastic packages, with money going toward recycling programs and infrastructure.
Enck, who previously served as the federal regional administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency under then-President Barack Obama, said mico-plastic wrapping for cheese slices could be replaced with alternatives.

“There was a time in America when we didn’t put a piece of plastic between every slice of cheese. They can substitute plastic with paper,” she said.
Anti-plastic packaging bills have been voted out of the environmental committees in the Senate and Assembly. It will now being reviewed by the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Codes Committee.

NY environmentalists’ next target? Individually wrapped cheese slices face ban under far-reaching bill

State lawmakers are pushing sweeping legislation that aims to ban slices of cheese that are individually packaged in thin micro-plastic wrapping.

nypost.com

I'd like to encourage these "environmentalists" to recycle themselves sooner than later, for the good of the Planet of course.
It is true that there was a time, and some manufacturers do still use a coated paper product to separate slices of cheese, what they may not realize is how paper is created, its costs and impacts, then there is the manufacturing process itself: all new machinery would be required to package and those cost might just stop sales to New York....when it gets right down to it, this is extortion for money from manufacturers who will either charge more or give NY the FU and not sell here, either way the consumer (the ones the Dems CLAIM to be protecting) are the ones taking it up the ass.

 

[Zerex]

Cheese food is cheese............

I too, only get the non wrapper cheese......................I figure that the plastic wrap poisons the cheese anyway.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

I'd like to encourage these "environmentalists" to recycle themselves sooner than later, for the good of the Planet of course.
It is true that there was a time, and some manufacturers do still use a coated paper product to separate slices of cheese, what they may not realize is how paper is created, its costs and impacts, then there is the manufacturing process itself: all new machinery would be required to package and those cost might just stop sales to New York....when it gets right down to it, this is extortion for money from manufacturers who will either charge more or give NY the FU and not sell here, either way the consumer (the ones the Dems CLAIM to be protecting) are the ones taking it up the ass.

The time is overdue for various companies to tell New Yorkistan to Fuck Right Off. Jumbo James is also suing PEPSICO over plastic. They need to close every operation in NYS, and stop selling anything or employing anybody there. If that fat ass James wants a sugary drink, she should have to drag her ass to PA. Maybe when no junk food is for sale in NYS, someone will get the message.

 

[Keyzard]

Just drove a ways across PA recently, (border to border, twice) and I gotta say- the roadsides in PA look like a hillbilly trash dump that never ends. Mile after mile of old discarded tires, trash, garbage bags, random paper and plastic trash, garbage everywhere. It was nasty. The cleanest part of PA was the welcome center dog walking area, where no one picks up after their dog. There has to be something decent about PA, but I don’t know what it is after that trip. Sure, battlefields and Philadelphia, got that. But the garbage lined roads were truly disappointing. It’s like the people there have zero self respect to live like that.

I guess it depends on the area? We're in central northern PA, and most people here take pride in the appearance of their surroundings. It may have something to do with the fact that this area is heavily invested in hunting, fishing, hiking, etc.

Coming from WNY, I can attest that the edges of the NYS Thruway are far from pristine after the spring thaw......

 

[Depick]

I will go to PA for all of my cheese needs.

 

[Saltwater60]

So they will force it to be sliced with paper between it then. This uses more resources and paper is heavier so less transported per truck. This is why they are charging you for paper bags now. They make everything worse.