A new statewide ban on polystyrene packaging for food service businesses took effect in Virginia on July 1, 2025, and ...

California, the most populous U.S. state and fifth-largest world economy, will effectively ban the use of most expanded plastic foam food containers on January 1, a move conservationists called a ...

Oregon on Monday became the 10th state in the U.S. to ban polystyrene foam food containers, dealing another blow to a plastic whose chemical components have been linked to cancer and nervous ...

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

FILE: A Styrofoam container is shown with take out food. Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Restaurants throughout Oregon will need to ditch to-go containers made of plastic foam by 2025, under a bill ...

Food in containers made of the white plastic foam can no longer be given to diners who eat in, take leftovers or pick up ...

Currently, 11 states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws to phase out plastic foam. Now, Congress is considering the Farewell to Foam act that would take those phase-out efforts to a national level.

For example, a 48-foot truckload of the foam weighs only around 16,000 pounds, whereas a truckload of densified foam weighs 40,000 pounds, according to the Foodservice Packaging Institute.

Author: WFAA Staff and WFAA.com (WFAA) Published: 12:07 PM CDT October 16, 2009 Updated: 12:07 PM CDT October 16, 2009 ...

Currently, 11 states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws to phase out plastic foam. Now, Congress is considering the Farewell to Foam act that would take those phase-out efforts to a national level.