Editing Polystyrene (section)

====United States====
In 1987, [[Berkeley, California]], banned CFC food containers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Berkeley Barring Use of a Food Container|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/us/berkeley-barring-use-of-a-food-container.html?src=pm|access-date=23 December 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=24 September 1987|agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> The following year, [[Suffolk County, New York]], became the first U.S. jurisdiction to ban polystyrene in general.<ref>{{cite news|title=Suffolk Votes A Bill to Ban Plastic Bags|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/30/nyregion/suffolk-votes-a-bill-to-ban-plastic-bags.html|access-date=23 December 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 March 1988}}</ref> However, legal challenges by the [[Society of the Plastics Industry]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Hevesi|first=Dennis|title=Ban on Plastics in Suffolk Is Overturned|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/04/nyregion/ban-on-plastics-in-suffolk-is-overturned.html?src=pm|access-date=23 December 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 March 1990}}</ref> kept the ban from going into effect until at last it was delayed when the Republican and Conservative parties gained the majority of the county legislature.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barbanel|first=Josh|title=Vote Blocks Plastics Ban For Suffolk|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/04/nyregion/vote-blocks-plastics-ban-for-suffolk.html|access-date=23 December 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 March 1992}}</ref> In the meantime, Berkeley became the first city to ban all foam food containers.<ref name="berkeley-1988"/> As of 2006, about one hundred localities in the United States, including [[Portland, Oregon]], and [[San Francisco]] had some sort of ban on polystyrene foam in restaurants. For instance, in 2007 [[Oakland, California]], required restaurants to switch to disposable food containers that would biodegrade if added to food compost.<ref>{{cite news|title=Styrofoam food packaging banned in Oakland|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Styrofoam-food-packaging-banned-in-Oakland-2516522.php|access-date=23 December 2012|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=28 June 2006|author=Herron Zamora, Jim }}</ref> In 2013, [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] became reportedly the largest city in the country to ban polystyrene foam food containers.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sanchez|first=Kris|title=San Jose Approves Styrofoam Ban|url=http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Jose-Set-to-Ban-Styrofoam-221354051.html|publisher=[[NBC]]|access-date=30 August 2013|date=27 August 2013}}</ref> Some communities have implemented wide polystyrene bans, such as [[Freeport, Maine]], which did so in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|title=CHAPTER 33 STYROFOAM ORDINANCE|url=http://www.freeportmaine.com/inc/scripts/file.php?file_id=1060|website=Ordinances|publisher=Town of Freeport, Maine|access-date=23 December 2012|archive-date=29 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329123453/http://freeportmaine.com/inc/scripts/file.php?file_id=1060|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1988, the first U.S. ban of general polystyrene foam was enacted in Berkeley, California.<ref name="berkeley-1988">{{cite news|title=Berkeley Widens Ban on Foam Food Containers|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-16-mn-6881-story.html|access-date=23 December 2012|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=16 June 1988}}</ref>

On 1 July 2015, [[New York City]] became the largest city in the United States to attempt to prohibit the sale, possession, and distribution of [[disposable product|single-use]] polystyrene foam (the initial decision was overturned on appeal).<ref>{{cite web |author=Tony Dokoupil |url=http://www.msnbc.com/new-york-city-foam-ban-overturned |title=msnbc.com |publisher=msnbc.com |date=2015-09-22 |access-date=2019-01-17 |archive-date=29 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729015731/http://www.msnbc.com/new-york-city-foam-ban-overturned |url-status=dead }}</ref> In San Francisco, supervisors approved the toughest ban on "Styrofoam" (EPS) in the US which went into effect 1 January 2017. The city's Department of the Environment can make exceptions for certain uses like shipping medicines at prescribed temperatures.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-OKs-ban-on-Styrofoam-Jane-Kim-wants-to-play-8332796.php| title=S.F. supervisors OK toughest ban on foam packaging in U.S|access-date=2016-06-30| date=2016-06-30}}</ref>

The U.S. [[Green Restaurant Association]] does not allow polystyrene foam to be used as part of its certification standard.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.dinegreen.com/disposables-standard | title=Disposables Standard | publisher=Green Restaurant Association | access-date=14 December 2016}}</ref> Several green leaders, including the [[Ministry of the Environment|Dutch Ministry of the Environment]], advise people to reduce their environmental harm by using reusable coffee cups.<ref>{{cite news|author=Dineen, Shauna|title=The Throwaway Generation: 25 Billion Styrofoam Cups a Year|publisher=E-The Environmental Magazine|date=Nov–Dec 2005|url=http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2933|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061112142759/http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2933|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-11-12}}</ref>

In March 2019, Maryland banned polystyrene foam food containers and became the first state in the country to pass a food container foam ban through the state legislature. Maine was the first state to officially get a foam food container ban onto the books.  In May 2019, Maryland Governor Hogan allowed the foam ban (House Bill 109) to become law without a signature making Maryland the second state to have a food container foam ban on the books, but is the first one to take effect on 1 July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-and-energy/maryland-foam-packaging-ban-energy-bills-to-become-law|title=Maryland Foam Packaging Ban, Energy Bills to Become Law|last=Andrew M. Ballard|website=news.bloombergenvironment.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://environmentamerica.org/news/ame/statement-maryland-becomes-second-state-ban-plastic-foam-containers|title=Statement: Maryland becomes the second state to ban plastic foam containers|website=environmentamerica.org|language=en|access-date=2019-06-20|archive-date=11 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711024041/https://environmentamerica.org/news/ame/statement-maryland-becomes-second-state-ban-plastic-foam-containers|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-hogan-bill-list-20190524-story.html|title=Maryland's new laws: banning foam food containers, raising tobacco-buying age, reforming UMMS board|last=The Sun|first=Baltimore|website=baltimoresun.com|date=24 May 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mdlcv.org/2019-foam-ban|title=2019 Foam Ban|date=2019-05-30|website=Maryland League of Conservation Voters|language=en|access-date=2019-06-20|archive-date=20 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620002002/http://www.mdlcv.org/2019-foam-ban|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In September 2020, the New Jersey state legislature voted to ban disposable [[foam food container]]s and cups made of polystyrene foam.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zaveri |first1=Mihir |title=Even Paper Bags Will Be Banned From N.J. Supermarkets |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/nyregion/nj-paper-plastic-bag-ban.html |access-date=22 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 September 2020}}</ref>