SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Restaurant owner Gary Honeycutt says a push in California's state Legislature to ban the plastic foam containers he uses to serve up takeout meals could cost him thousands of dollars in an industry where profit margins already are razor thin.BJ's Kountry Kitchen, in the heart of California's farm country, uses about 26,000 of the 9-inch foam clamshells a year, mostly for takeout by the customers who come in for the restaurant's popular breakfast omelets.Read More...
California Styrofoam Ban: State Aims To Be The First To Ban Foam Containers
The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Sun, 08/28/2011 - 10:41pm
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