CT lawmakers move to ban plastic utensils, styrofoam food containers

Connecticut Inside Investigator – Tuesday, March 25, 2025
By Marc E. Fitch

The General Assembly’s Environment Committee passed a bill on March 24 that will ban plastic utensils, straws, stirrers, and polystyrene food containers starting in 2026 in an effort to remove plastics from the waste stream, but businesses and schools say it will cost them and their customers.

According to Committee Bill 6229, no state or municipal agency, vendor with a government contract, school, business or food vendor shall sell, use, purchase or provide any food containers composed of polystyrene, packing peanuts, or “any single use plastic cutlery, straw, plastic stirrer, splash stick or food ware accessory, except that a single use plastic straw may be provided, upon request, to persons with disabilities and shall be made available at pharmacies and medical facilities.”

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