Multiple states are banning EPS foam food containers, and Oregon’s packaging EPR program begins. Elsewhere, there are bottle ...

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Styrofoam coffee cups, plates, clamshell takeout containers and other food service items made with expanded polystyrene plastic can still be found in restaurants and on store shelves, despite a ...

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SB54 put an end to polystyrene — which had low recycling rates and high levels of pollution — in California. But the plastic industry may have spooked the governor into silence.

Gov. Maura T. Healey signed an executive order in 2023 that prohibited the state’s executive branch from buying single-use plastic bottles that contain 21 ounces or less.

Plastic bottles and a plastic-foam ring are wedged between tree branches along the Chicago River at Ping Tom Memorial Park on April 25, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) ...

Multiple states are banning EPS foam food containers, and Oregon’s packaging EPR program begins. Elsewhere, there are bottle ...

Expanded polystyrene foam, the white fluffy plastic in styrofoam, was banned in food service ware on Jan. 1. But shoppers in CA say its still on the shelves.