California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement

Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by triceratops on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:00PM (#25608201)

We can recycle styrofoam? This is news to me.

You can't recycle wax paper cups. But they'll either break down in the landfill, which is fine. Or they won't, which is a form of carbon capture, which is also fine. You can also burn it for energy.

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Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by rrauenza on Saturday January 02, 2021 @02:51AM (#25611158)

How about composting styrofoam? I keep wanting to try it at home sometime!

https://livingearthsystems.com/mealworms-compost-styrofoam/

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Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by btilly on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:55PM (#25609892)

We can recycle it. But it isn't cost effective.

Still consider this. Things decompose only slowly in a landfill. But when they do, they decomposed into methane because it is a low oxygen environment. And methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 is.

Therefore "they'll break down in the landfill" is not as fine as you think it is. The fact that styrofoam will NOT breakdown in a landfill makes it ACTUALLY better as a form of carbon capture. (Although the carbon being captured is actually from fossil fuels, so at best it can be net neutral.)

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