Baltimore’s Foam Food Container Ban Takes Effect

Starting Saturday, businesses that sell food in polystyrene foam containers in Baltimore City would be fined $200 for each sale they make using the outlawed packaging.

The ban is part of an effort to reduce trash and environmental pollution. A statewide ban takes effect next July.

Ronald Attman, CEO of Acme Paper & Supply Co. in Savage, said his company has had to change the way it does business. The company supplies containers to restaurants up and down the East Coast.

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