Big Apple restaurant owners are speaking out against Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed ban on plastic foam cups and food containers.
Opponents rallied on the steps of City Hall yesterday before a City Council meeting where the ban was to be introduced.
Speakers said the ban would cut 1,500 jobs in the polystyrene industry. They said it also would hurt small businesses like delis and bodegas, since alternative materials such as aluminum are much more expensive.
City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens) suggested recycling the containers instead.
Bloomberg proposed the plastic-foam ban in his State of the City speech in February.
He said the containers are “virtually impossible to recycle.”