We are not alone

The U.S. Congress isn’t the only legislative body who knows how to waste money. These guys are friggin’ loony!

From the Toronto Sun:

Banning disposable coffee cups, at least in their current paper and plastic form, is still on the table at City Hall, though councillors won’t be debating it for a few months.

The city’s public works committee was supposed to address the issue yesterday, but the controversial plan has been delayed until June so that city staff and industry representatives can try to find other, less explosive solutions.

Meanwhile, Toronto residents continue to send about 350 million cups and lids to the city’s landfill because neither the paper cups nor the plastic lids are currently accepted in the city’s blue bin program.

“If you’re anywhere in the City of Toronto, the cup and lid go in the garbage,” said Geoff Rathbone, the city’s solid waste director.

“The only exception to that would be private stores.”

First proposed in December, along with a controversial plan to force retailers to charge 5 cents per plastic bag, intense lobbying forced the city to back down from their coffee cup stance.

WORKING GROUP

Instead, they formed a 40-person working group, which has spent at least $50,000 on consultants to address the issue, either to use different materials in the disposable cups or find a recycling company to buy them.

NYC commuters can only pray that Mayor Mike doesn’t hear of this idea.