Because there's nothing like petty spite, House Republicans are getting rid of biodegradable cups in the Capitol lunchroom, replacing them with Styrofoam cups. Of course, there's going to be a link to Wichita's billionaire Koch brothers.
Via the Huffington Post: "Former Koch Industries executive George Wurtz owns WinCup, which supplies the Styrofoam cups now littering the building, following the House GOP's decision to phase out biodegradable cups from a Capitol lunchroom.
"House Republicans announced in January that they would end a program to place compostable cups, containers and utensils in the House-side mini-cafeteria, a direct shot at former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "Green the Capitol" initiative, which did away with Styrofoam cups in 2007. Suspending the program resulted in business for Wurtz, a former executive of Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific LLC."
Nothing like adding 535 tons of waste to landfills. Wonder what kind of cups -- and who's supplying them -- at the Missouri and Kansas statehouses?
H/T: The New Republic.
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I'm sure you're right, but these were biodegradable cups, not Dixie cups. Also, the health effects of manufacturing polystyrene and of drinking hot liquids from the cups have been linked to prostate cancer. Per the EPA. Worth risking? I don't think so.
From an environmental engineer, styrofoam cup are actually BETTER for the environment than "dixie" cups after you do life cycle costing. I've done the numbers myself.
Look it up. Type styrofoam vs. paper into google.
The Kansas House has voted to eliminate 2012 funding for the Local Environmental Protection Program (LEPP) This program directly serves Kansans throughout the state by helping citizens resolve environmental concerns by regulating private water supplies and wastewater treatment. There is no other qualified resource avaiable to those in rural counties.
K.S.A 75-5657 was established to provide funding to local government for implementing environmental protection.
The LEPP funds were removed from the 2012 water budget. Eliminating LEPP will violate the objectives of the Kansas Water Plan, thus reducing Kansas' response to lowering pollutants in Kansas water, the inspection of county residential septic systems, inpsection of private wells, solid waste management, no-point pollution mangement and protection of public drinking water supplies.
That's crap. I work at a Federal Building and last year they got rid of styrofoam food containers in the cafeteria and replaced them with a biodegradable cardboard/paper. I guess enough people complained that they are now back to styrofoam. Stupid people, I guess people like to talk about helping the environment but like to complain if doing so actually impacts them.
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