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Alaska House advances bill restricting polystyrene containers from restaurants

Posted 4/21/26

The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday 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 […]

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