Unless there is an unexpected reversal in a second vote, Dana Point, Calif., is set to become the 50th community in California to enact a ban on polystyrene takeout foodservice containers.
A second vote on the ban — which would not be enforced until seven months after council approves the ban at a second reading — is scheduled for March 6.
At the same meeting, Dana Point city council approved a ban on plastic bags, which also requires a second vote.
With Laguna Beach, Calif., also adopting a plastic bag ban earlier this month, that means 42 communities in California now have bans on single-use plastic carryout bags. Altogether, 54 cities and 12 counties in the U.S. have adopted plastic bag bans, three communities have taxes on plastic bags, and more than a dozen cities including Austin, Texas; Sacramento and San Diego, Calif. — are actively pursuing plastic bag bans.
Forty-six cities and four counties in California have bans on PS takeout packaging. More than 80 percent of those communities are in the area between the Monterey Peninsula and the San Francisco-Oakland area, and most of them are coastal communities.
Source: Waste & Recycling News