Members of the city water quality committee didn't commit last week but did seem open to the idea of banning restaurants from using single-use plastic utensils and other tableware and clamping down on balloons to keep the nonbiodegradable items out of the ocean.
Newport Beach could join the movement to ban plastic foodware and largely take balloons out too.
“I ate at every fast-food chain in Santa Monica,” Ip said at the committee’s meeting Thursday, holding examples of biodegradable utensils found in that city, where plastic versions have been banned since last year. “Manhattan Beach, same. Malibu, same.
Shane Coons, owner of a Costa Mesa-based company that manufactures environmentally friendly food service products, said there’s a lot of debate about what is truly marine degradable and said little on the market today would qualify.Coons, whose products at 4 Blue Waves include bamboo bowls, birch utensils, paper straws and recyclable paper cups lined in a resin-plastic blend, said his company is working on better carryout packaging that could be available next year.
Balloons also create marine debris and threaten sea animals that mistake them for food — causing them to choke or otherwise be harmed by indigestible material or to become tangled in attached ribbons, according to a proposed code section.
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