Pic: California launches ‘snitch line’ to report styrofoam ban offenders
July 30, 2025 Timothy Frudd
California recently launched a “snitch line” webpage to provide a way for California residents to anonymously report companies that produce Expanded Polystyrene foodware products, also known as styrofoam products. The new website comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) signed a law that officially banned the production and distribution of styrofoam foodware products earlier this year.
According to a statement on the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery’s website, the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which was outlined in Senate Bill 54, “imposes minimum content requirements for single-use packaging and plastic food service ware, to be achieved through an extended producer responsibility (EPR) program.”
According to The Post Millennial, while the ban on the production and distribution of styrofoam foodware products was implemented in January, producers have been allowed to continue selling styrofoam products if they achieved a 25% recycling target rate. However, according to the Surfrider Foundation, producers did not achieve the recycling rate by January.
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