If approved by a majority of voters, the measure would ban polystyrene, or foam, food packaging, such as clam-shell boxes for take-out food, at stores, supermarkets and restaurants. Some cities ...

food boxes, mail, beverage cans, food cans, glass bottles, glass and plastic jars, jugs, plastic bottles and caps. You can't recycle: Styrofoam, shrink and bubble wrap, plastic utensils ...

It is also advised not to use a microwave to heat food stored in foam containers. It is highly recommended to prioritize using lunch boxes and containers made from safer materials for storing food.

Last Monday, a member of the Houston Heights Foodies Facebook group asked restaurant owners not to put fries in Styrofoam (or polysterene ... French fries, being a fried food, are susceptible ...

No more foam plates, no more clamshell boxes for take-out, no more packing peanuts. Polystyrene chemicals can leach into food and the substance has been classified as a possible human carcinogen, ...

Senate Bill 543 will phase out polystyrene foam dishware, packing peanuts and coolers, and will prohibit the use of PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals,” in food packaging. It takes effect ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Restaurants, food carts and other vendors in Oregon would be banned from serving meals in plastic foam containers under a bill state Senators approved on Monday.

It’s a new year, and that means the end of Styrofoam to-go containers in Oregon. As of Jan. 1, a new state law takes effect that bans restaurants and food carts from using polystyrene foam ...

Expanded polystyrene — known colloquially by the brand name Styrofoam — is commonly used in takeout food containers. However, in 2021, Colorado passed a law banning the use of food containers ...

Things like cups, plates, trays and other food and drink containers made from expanded polystyrene will be illegal starting June 1. Single-use foam coolers will also be prohibited. The change is ...