Outlaw polystyrene drink and food containers

Yeah, that’s a very good point Tim. Perhaps included in the legislation could be a standardised definition of terms including “biodegradable” to mean biodegradable under the normal (perhaps even regionally specific) environmental conditions these products will end up, i.e. Landfill.

Be careful when talking biodegradable. There are plastic bags etc that are listed as such but they’re only biodegradable when exposed to constant weather (air, sun & rain). This means they are useless when put into landfill (which is where most of it goes). It’s a nasty trick on people trying to do the right thing

As has been pointed out by a couple of others, this could part of a more comprehensive policy on waste reduction specifically around non-biodegradable and hazardous wastes. The definition of hazardous being broader than just “to humans”

One policy here if banning is the plan. I would say that using taxes to disincentivize is a better approach. Makes it Environment and Taxation. My view is add a balancing tax where a producer of consumer can externalize costs (from polluter to environment).

This makes sense as part of a broader policy to reduce waste.

Ban it or tax it at a high rate. Either way it needs to go. We need to do something about excessive packaging with plastics too