Alaska House advances bill restricting polystyrene containers from restaurants

By: Haley Lehman

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: April 22, 2026

Words: 646

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday banning restaurants from providing food in polystyrene foam containers.

Representative Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage, introduced the bill to address what he called an “alarming problem” of plastic pollution.

Josephson cited a statistic from the Ocean Conservancy, an environmental advocacy nonprofit, that found polystyrene foam is found in 22% of food takeout containers in the U.S.

Polystyrene foam is a non-biodegradable plastic that is used to …

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