Brickbat: I Didn't Ask for This

New York City restaurants could face fines of $50 to $250 if they include utensils, soy sauce, ketchup, and other plastic items in takeout orders if the customer did not ask for them. The new "Skip the Stuff" law is aimed at reducing plastic waste. Restaurants will only receive warnings for violating the law until July 1, 2024.

Comments

[Stuck in California]

They have a similar law here. Have for a few years now.

Want to guess the last time I had to ask for a straw?

(For reference, I don't live in the Bay Area where this kind if virtue signalling always originates).

[Fist of Etiquette]

New Yorkers, tough as they come.

[Adans smith]

I can see undercover cops ordering take out to check all the places in the city. Good work if you can get it.

[Jerryskids]

I believe it's Article II of the Constitution that gives government the power to determine how many ketchup packets you can get with a Happy Meal. The same clause that gives them the power to decide how many squares of toilet paper you can use to wipe your ass.

[SMP0328]

This isn't a federal law; it's a New York City ordinance. The authority for the ordinance comes from the City's charter, not the U.S. Constitution.

[Longtobefree]

For now - - - - - - - - - - -

[TJJ2000]

I'd check the State Constitution.

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restaurants, food delivery and third-party courier services

I, officially, on behalf of all the customers, food delivery and third-party courier services of all the restaurants, bakeries, confectioneries, cafeterias, street vendors, and food service establishments in (and out of) New York, request all the free plastic fork, knife, spoon, chopsticks, sandwich skewers, sporks, spifes, fifes, and other utensils as well as all the plastic-wrapped napkins, foil-and-plastic-wrapped wet wipes, soy sauce, ketchup, mayo, mustard, aoli, varying hot sauces, and vinegarette, including oils, dip, and condiment packets not mentioned, now and in perpetuity. This request carries no commitment to purchase and imposes no specific date of purchase or delivery but completely fulfills the the need for request on behalf of all customers and thus avoids any fines and fees associated with any lack of such request.

[Miss Ann Thrope]

People shouldn't be ordering takeout or eating in restaurants. Only plant based foods bought from Amazon and paid for with a card should be allowed. It must be eaten with hands ftom the package so no resources are wasted on washing dishes. You will like it.

[Don't look at me!]

Package? Bring your own bowl.

[Miss Ann Thrope]

Now we have a dilemma. Bring a bowl that has to be washed, or a package that has to be landfilled.

[Bubba Jones]

NY doesn't have the resources to prosecute gun crimes, but this ...?

[Naime Bond]

If you've walked the streets on garbage day in NYC you'd realize the vast majority will think it's a good local ordinance and will spur some to forego the plastic and the packets that get tossed into desk drawers and then thrown out - they know it won't 'solve' the garbage problem - but if NYC were run by libertarians, the garbage would be twice as high - the rats twice as big.

[Don't look at me!]

Rats don’t eat plastic forks.

[TJJ2000]

Let me guess. NYC doesn't have a litter law?
UR FOS. But hey; stupid people tend to be tyrants.
10-year prison sentence for not paying the $1M in $250 fines for giving people a straw to drink with.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Careful you don't step in the bullshit, folks.

[TJJ2000]

Usually my City/County/State harasses me to death.

Stories like this downright Hitler-type tyrannical government BS makes me appreciate where I am but sadly I know their stupidity will eventually spread to federal because that's what [Na]tional So[zi]alist[s] believe in.

[Dillinger]

>>New York City restaurants

ick. no.

[Longtobefree]

"The new "Skip the Stuff" law is aimed at reducing plastic waste."

Fact check:
The new "Skip the Stuff" law is aimed at conditioning the populace to follow any law, no matter how stupid.

[williams25248]

How would these "authorities" even know? Is someone going to get their take-out, find the condiments and plasticwear and call the police? Or will they send in undercover people to order takeout and see what's in the bag? We live in the Time of the Government Busy Bodies.

[ducksalad]

Is someone going to get their take-out, find the condiments and plasticwear and call the police?

Unfortunately yes, there are people who will do that. Some because they're angry at the restaurant over the food, service, or owner's politics. Some have convinced themselves that enforcing mostly symbolic bans makes society better. Some just derive pleasure from calling the authorities on their fellow citizens.

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[Chumby]

Those businesses that fail to comply will have to fork over money to pay the fine.

[markm23]

So my drink comes in a plastic cup so flimsy that it’s unsafe without a plastic lid snapped onto it, but I have to ask for a straw to drink through that lid?

Fortunately, this is only a NYC ordinance, so it's not going to affect me. I haven't been to NYC since 1976, and had no desire to go there now even before I heard about this. OTOH, if you're running a city that I might visit, imitating NYC is a good way to ensure you never get my business - although things like releasing a violent criminal 40 times but prosecuting the hero who finally stopped his depredations are much higher on my list of NYC policies no one should even think about copying.

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