He said being forced to use alternatives to plastic foam would likely be more expensive.
Plastic foam product limitations have already been ordered in several other cities, including Seattle, Washington, and Brookline, Massachusetts.
Bodyboards, filled with plastic foam, were originally designed for children, and you can see them at seasides everywhere.
In Seattle, the City Council enacted a plastic foam containers ban and the response there has been largely muted.
Plastic foam cups that keep drinks hot would also be on the chopping block if Bloomberg's citywide ban becomes law.
The proposed plastic foam ban is the latest in a series of public health initiatives launched by the mayor in his 11-year tenure.
Fish Yu, a part-time manager of the popular Chinese restaurant Ollie's on 42nd Street, said his restaurant uses at least 150 plastic foam containers a day.
Bloomberg's announcement, made Thursday in his State of the City address, left consumers and food vendors big and small wondering what a city free of plastic foam might look like.
"If I had an option, I'd bring my own containers or get it served on something else, but this is all they give you, " said Pena, who bought lunch served in a plastic foam container from a midtown Manhattan food cart.
Many of them have been commandeered by the city's large homeless population, who slip away in the light of day but leave behind evidence of their existence dirty clothes scattered about, a bedroll where they slept, empty cans and plastic foam containers from what passed for a meal.
As well, public school students would no longer receive pizza or soggy broccoli in plastic-foam trays.
The bulletin says plastic-foam containers, inner tubes and even buoys could be rigged to blow up on contact.
In Maine, for example, bait can't be sold in polystyrene foam plastic.
Plumlee and dozens of other college basketball players wear compression shirts and shorts dotted with foam and plastic shock-absorbing pads under their uniforms.
Then the product was trucked about 200 miles to central Wisconsin, where another contractor bundled adhesive foam with plastic hooks and put the product into blister packaging.
Anything I can't recycle, it's old plastic, lots of plastic trays and containers, foam polystyrene.
In 2009, the company shed weight from its foam hot cup and plastic cold cup which reduced the amount of cup waste winding up in land fills by 4.6 million pounds per annum.
In addition to recycled products, Ford also uses other eco-friendly materials including soy foam seat cushions and natural-fiber plastic in center interior components.
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