Ban styrofoam and plastic containers

• Clivebenss

  22 Mar 12, 09:23

  Mar 22, 2012 - ST Forum

  THE National Environment Agency (NEA) should ban the use of styrofoam disposables and plastic containers ('Better green features in new food centres'; yesterday).

  Use only ceramic and metal containers instead. The NEA can start with 10 hawker centres by issuing these items free to hawkers, who will charge customers for their use.

  Over time, the customers will bring their own containers.

  As long as customers can afford the cheap, environmentally unfriendly containers now provided, the NEA will have to continue to incinerate them.

  Leong Chew Yee

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  22 Mar 12, 09:43

     

   

   

  next time I make a trip to chinatown to eat, must bring a kitchen worth of utensils just to eat...

  shoooo moody...

   

   

  

  Eh wait, Mr Leong sell Ceramic or metal containers one ah???

• Toiletries

  22 Mar 12, 10:03

  This clown, just follow hospital's example of using paper container.

  And those 10 hawkers better be the BEST in town or they're gonna have to stop selling take-aways when the container itself cost just as much as the food.

• Lokey

  22 Mar 12, 14:26

  Really a clown.

  Washing the utensils also uses a lot of water. The water itself is precious. It is just tai chi the problem.

   

   

• Summer hill

  22 Mar 12, 16:24

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  Mar 22, 2012 - ST Forum

  THE National Environment Agency (NEA) should ban the use of styrofoam disposables and plastic containers ('Better green features in new food centres'; yesterday).

  Use only ceramic and metal containers instead. The NEA can start with 10 hawker centres by issuing these items free to hawkers, who will charge customers for their use.

  Over time, the customers will bring their own containers.

  As long as customers can afford the cheap, environmentally unfriendly containers now provided, the NEA will have to continue to incinerate them.

  Leong Chew Yee

  

  Ceramic and metal containers?

  Ceramic can break easily.

  Metal can burn people's arm. 

   

• troublemaker2005

  22 Mar 12, 22:29

  bring your own scoop, then go there take away okay.

  better don;t eat, tell others to eat for you i coluunteer.

   

  we all gonna die oenday lah - so wht save this and that so much?

   

  the day humans dawn on earth, humans were already on the way countdown to extinction

   

  so the last thing i do b4 extinction of the human race is to aim mate with angel7030

• Clivebenss

  25 Mar 12, 15:20

  gay mate.

  

• CityMains

  25 Mar 12, 15:23

  

• Display Name

  26 Mar 12, 12:03

  yup, styrofoam should be banned.
  It is safe if it is used to put cold drink, but nowadays a lot of people use it to put hot drink, which is very poisonous and harmful in long term.

• TehJarVu

  26 Mar 12, 12:09

  MOM should let us knock off at 4pm everyday
  so we can go home and cook dinner

  home-cooked food very healthy no need to use styrofoam

• fudgester

  26 Mar 12, 12:31

  I agree on the use of paper containers.

  At least they are safer than styrofoam and more biodegradable.

  While I agree that we should encourage the use of Tupperware, inevitably there will be some people who need disposable containers. What if, say, you suddenly decide to takeaway some food but don't happen to have a container? Would you go to the nearest supermarket just to buy another container? That would be an even greater waste of resources.

  I suggest encouraging people to bring their own containers, while charging a ten-cent surcharge for those who want to use disposable paper containers.

• Clivebenss

  27 Mar 12, 22:50

  those that serve with disposable plates and cups are wasteful and not environmentally friendly..