Expanded Polystyrene Foam Packaging To Be Banned by New York City July 1

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New York City will ban food packaging, loose-fill packing peanuts and other single-use articles made of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam on July 1, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Jan. 8. The prohibition is based on a city Sanitation Department determination that EPS foam can't be recycled and that no market exists for post-consumer foam collected in the city's curbside metal, glass and plastic recycling program, de Blasio said.