Poll: New Yorkers favor foam container ban
Photo credit: AP, 2011 | Polystyrene cups are bagged up after being manufactured at the DART Container Corp., plant in Lodi, Calif. In an effort to double the city's recycling rate by 2017, New York City Sanitation officials are considering a ban on to-go containers made of polystyrene foam.
New Yorkers may be divided over the mayor's soda ban, but a majority have no qualms about prohibiting some of the cups those drinks come in.
A Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday found that 69 percent of New Yorkers approved of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to ban plastic-foam food and drink containers.
Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute,...
