Say goodbye to those flimsy containers. Foam cups, plates and other tableware are banned in Washington starting Saturday. The ban is the latest phase in the state's 2021 law that seeks to reduce the ...

A campaign says it’s time for restaurants in Hampton Roads to think outside the box — the Styrofoam box. A statewide ban on expanded polystyrene packaging — known best by the brand Styrofoam — means ...

Foam Fabricators Inc. will manufacture expanded polystyrene shipping containers to transport doses of the highly anticipated novel coronavirus vaccine. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company said it has ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Restaurants, food carts and other vendors in Oregon would be banned from serving meals in plastic foam containers under a bill state Senators approved on Monday. Four years ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland moved another step closer Tuesday to becoming the first state to ban plastic foam food containers statewide. Nearly three-quarters of the House of Delegates voted in favor of ...

New York’s ban on polystyrene foam food packaging doesn’t go into effect until January, but for many companies, the switch to other materials is well under way. A mix of alternatives is replacing the ...

Feel like you're seeing fewer Styrofoam containers these days? You may be right. According to Packaging Dive, a wave of Styrofoam bans started sweeping over the United States in 2025. States like ...

Albany, N.Y. — If you forgot about this, it’s understandable. Back in 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was reaching its first, terrible peak in New York, the state Legislature still managed to pass a ...

This week Maryland will become the first state in the US to ban the use of foam containers for carryout. The law, which was approved during the 2019 state legislative session, will go into effect on ...