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Commission backs resolution supporting broader ban on polystyrene products

Commission on the Environment · May 24, 2016
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Summary

After staff and sponsor testimony and public comment from environmental groups and industry representatives, the Commission voted to support a resolution endorsing a Board of Supervisors ordinance to prohibit sale of certain polystyrene products and packaging, with waivers for infeasible uses.

The San Francisco Commission on the Environment voted to support a resolution endorsing an ordinance that would prohibit the sale and use of a wide range of products made from expanded polystyrene (polystyrene foam).

Connor Johnston (staff to Board President London Breed’s office) presented the legislation as an expansion of San Francisco’s earlier foodware prohibition, saying the proposal would ban cups, plates, clamshells, packing peanuts, coolers, certain marine products and polystyrene packing used for items packaged in San…

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