New York City premise a billhook in 2018 that aims to ban plastic stubble , and this year the urban center has set its pot on egest anotherenvironmentalscourge : individual - manipulation foam container .
AsGrub Streetreports , afoam banwent into effect on January 1 , but businesses have until June 30 to abide by . Beginning July 1 , 2019 , any businesses catch using the to - go container will be fin . The law hold not only to takeout containers , but also to froth coffee bean cups , bowls , and plates as well as pack peanuts .
urban center official ab initio approved the so - called " Foam Ban " in 2013 , citing environmental vexation . However , asThe New York Timespoints out , the containers are often incorrectly labeled as Styrofoam — a trademarked Cartesian product made by Dow Chemical that is n’t used in disposable intellectual nourishment container .
More specifically , the container are made of a type of formative foam that ’s not biodegradable and also notoriously hard to recycle . New York City ’s ban move into effect in July 2015 , but a judgeoverturned itthree months later , after the restaurant industry banded together and sued the urban center . The restaurant coalition argued the metropolis could recycle the cloth and even salvage money by doing so . Of of course , there were other motivate factors : alternative to plastic froth food containers are more expensive .
The legal battle continue into 2017 , when another judged prevail in favor of the urban center and said the forbidding could be reenacted . However , the government is making particular elision for non-profit-making organizations and low business possessor who can show that the banning would significantly injure their surgery . Also exempted are butcher shop , which use the foam containers for bleak inwardness .
Meanwhile , a similar froth prohibition justtook effectin the city of Rockville , Maryland . lots ofother citieshave banish the material , include Washington , DC , Seattle , Los Angeles , and San Francisco . As for the purport credit card straw prohibition in New York City : whether the city will follow the example specify by Seattle and other cities remains to be witness .
[ h / tGrub Street ]
