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Bloomberg at a press conference earlier this month (Mario Tama/Getty Images)NEW YORK New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned smoking at restaurants, bars and parks, put limits on the sales of sugary sodas and required fast food eateries to post the fat and calorie totals of the meals they serve.

And now, as he enters his final months in office, Bloomberg is looking to institute another sweeping citywide ban, this time on plastic-foam packaging used for coffee cups and food containers.

Bloomberg will make the proposal in his final State of the City address on Thursday.

We can live without it, we may live longer without it, and the doggie bag will survive just fine, Bloomberg will say, according to excerpts obtained by the New York Times.

A spokesman for the mayor did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Yahoo News.

Bloomberg s push comes after several other major cities including San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Ore. have passed similar bans on plastic-foam packaging which is more expensive to recycle and is considered harmful to the environment.

Rumors that Bloomberg would push for a plastic-foam ban have been rampant for weeks at City Hall. The ban would require approval from the City Council if it is to be implemented.

The proposal is likely to face considerable pushback from the city s restaurant and convenience store industries which are already angsty about a citywide ban on sales of cups of soda larger than 16 ounces set. That regulation is set to go into effect Mar. 1. (Diet soda is exempted.)

According to the Times, Bloomberg will also outline a plan to put more recycling bins on New York City streets.