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 ...

The legislation also bans the use of polystyrene packing materials for items packaged in San Francisco. Styrofoam cannot be recycled through the city's recycling program. Rather than decomposing ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

California’s ban on Styrofoam will now be enforced after the plastic industry failed to show a 25% recycling rate of the ... Get top local stories in San Diego delivered to you every morning.

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 ...