Reduction of Waste from Single-Use Articles and
Expanded Polystyrene Products Ordinance

LA County Ordinances, Board Correspondence & Reports

• Los Angeles County Reduction of Waste from Single-Use Articles and Expanded Polystyrene Products Ordinance (adopted April 2022) [PDF, 792KB]

• Reduction of Waste from Single-Use Articles and Expanded Polystyrene Products Board Letter (April 2022) [PDF, 10.6MB]

• Los Angeles County Single-Use Foodware Accessories Upon Request Ordinance (adopted June 2021) [PDF, 188KB]

• Single-Use Foodware Accessories Upon Request Board Motion (Kuehl, May 2021) [PDF, 36KB]

• Los Angeles County Single-Use Plastic Straws and Stirrers Upon Request Ordinance (adopted December 2018) [PDF, 2.2MB]

• Single-Use Plastic Straws and Stirrers Upon Request Board Letter (November 2018) [PDF, 1.08MB]

• Polystyrene Board Memo and Staff Report (January 2018) [PDF, 1.3MB]

• Expanded Polystyrene Board Memo (November 2011) [PDF, 288KB]
  • Staff Report Part 2 (November 2011) [PDF, 14.3MB]
  • Phase 2 Stakeholder Quarterly Reports

• Expanded Polystyrene Board Letter (September 2010) [PDF, 11.8MB]

Key State Legislation

• SB 54 (Allen, et. al.– 2022) — Establishes the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which covers certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware. The Act prohibits a producer from selling, offering for sale, importing, or distributing covered materials in the state unless the producer is part of a producer responsibility organization (PRO) with a producer responsibility plan approved by CalRecycle for the source reduction, collection, processing, and recycling of covered material. The Act will require producers of covered materials to source reduce plastic covered material; ensure that covered materials manufactured and sold in the state on or after January 1, 2032, is recyclable or compostable; and ensure that this covered material meets specified recycling or composting rates.
  
  

• SB 343 (Allen - 2021) — The Act Prohibits a person from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing into the state any product or packaging for which a deceptive or misleading claim about the recyclability of the product or packaging is made. The Act also requires CalRecycle, on or before January 1, 2024, to update specified regulations to require disposal facility operators to provide information to CalRecycle regarding how material processed by the operations and facilities was collected and what material types and forms are actively recovered, and not considered contaminants, by the operation or facility.
  
  

• AB 1200 (Ting - 2021) — This Act prohibits any person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any food packaging comprised, in substantial part, of paper, paperboard, or other materials originally derived from plant fibers that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS beginning January 1, 2023. The Act requires, beginning January 1, 2023, a manufacturer of this cookware to post on the internet website for the cookware a list of chemicals in the cookware that is present on the designated list. Additionally, it would require, beginning January 1, 2024, a manufacturer of cookware sold in the state that contains one or more intentionally added chemicals present on a designated list, include a statement on the product label regarding the presence of those chemicals of concern in the cookware.
  
  

• AB 1276 (Carrillo and Gonzalez – 2021) — This Act prohibits a food facility from providing single use foodware accessories or standard condiments to a consumer unless requested by the consumer and prohibits those items from being bundled or packaged in a way that prohibits the consumer from taking only the item desired. The Act also authorizes a food facility to ask a drive-through consumer, or a food facility located within a public airport to ask a walk-through consumer, if the consumer wants a single-use foodware accessory in specified circumstances. Requires a food facility using a third-party food delivery platform to list on its menu the availability of single use foodware accessories and standard condiments and only provide those items when requested.
  
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• AB 619 (Chiu -2019) — This Act specifies that clean consumer-owned containers provided or returned to the food facility for filling may be filled by either the employee or the owner of the container and would require the food facility to isolate the consumer-owned containers from the serving surface or sanitize the serving surface after each filling. The consumer-owned containers must be designed and constructed for reuse and the food facility must prepare, maintain, and adhere to written procedures to prevent cross-contamination, and to make the written procedures available to the enforcement agency. Furthermore, the act authorizes a local enforcement agency to allow a temporary food facility to use multiuse utensils that are cleaned, rinsed, and sanitized at either the temporary food facility or an approved food facility.
  

• SB 567 (DeSaulnier – 2011) — This Act repeals certain prohibitions and would instead prohibit the sale of a plastic product labeled as "compostable" or "marine degradable" unless it meets those ASTM standard specifications or a standard adopted by CalRecycle, or unless the plastic product is labeled with a qualified claim for which CalRecycle has an adopted existing standard, and the plastic product meets that standard. The act prohibits the sale of a plastic product that is mislabeled as "biodegradable," "degradable," "decomposable," or other similar terminology.
  
  

• SB 1127 (Karnette – 2001) — This Act requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to prepare a study on the use and disposal of EPS in the state and submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature. The report, entitled "Use and Disposal of Polystyrene in California," can be found online at https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/Publications/Download/562?opt=dln.

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