Styrofoam cannot be recycled through San Francisco’s recycling program. Rather than decomposing, it tends to break down into smaller, non-biodegradable pieces that pollute the Bay and ocean and ...

In the last 30 years, hundreds of California communities have come to adopt ordinances prohibiting restaurants from using expanded polystyrene food ware containers, popularly known as Styrofoam ... it ...

The legislation introduced by Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin would apply to about 3,4000 restaurants in San Francisco. The manufacture of Styrofoam involves polluting chemicals ...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors made a unanimous vote on Tuesday that will mark the most extensive ban on Styrofoam in the country. The legislation passed bans the product – technically ...

In one of the most extensive such bans in the U.S., San Francisco recently voted to outlaw commonly used foam products due ... the most expensive aspects of recycling is moving a material from ...

The city of San Diego plans to lose at least $90,000 a year recycling plastic-foam food containers ... The State Water Resources Control Board noted that data from San Francisco showed that banning ...

Camp Pendleton is attacking its disposable waste by concentrating on polystyrene packaging, or Styrofoam, and recycling it ... Times of San Diego publishes timely and accurate news coverage ...

Businessmen in San Francisco will soon be considered outlaws if they continue to use Styrofoam containers, cups, packing peanuts, toys, dock floats and other polystyrene products. The San ...

An article in Sunday’s paper cited a list of things that could not be put in Gardena’s recycling barrels. Among them was foam ... South Bay Tower, 21250 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 170, Torrance ...