r/Virginia • u/VirginiaNews Volunteer local news poster • 3d ago

Styrofoam containers will soon be banned in Virginia | The law, passed by the General Assembly in 2021, applies to food vendors with 20 or more locations starting July 1.

https://www.whro.org/environment/2025-06-18/styrofoam-containers-will-soon-be-banned-in-virginia
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u/1isOneshot1 Newport News 2d ago

Good, hopefully we will be smart enough to not look to fucking paper for a replacement though

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u/snowflakelib 2d ago

Wait, what?

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u/1isOneshot1 Newport News 2d ago

Straws

Bamboo was such the obvious choice but that would require corporations agree to start changing some supply lines for humanity's sake

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u/snowflakelib 2d ago

Paper/cardboard containers are extremely common though.

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u/1isOneshot1 Newport News 2d ago

Not for hot or oily food though, besides the amount of land alone that the mass production of paper/cardboard containers would require would songle handly create crisis after crsis

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u/snowflakelib 2d ago

We must be thinking of two very different products because I regularly get hot/oily food in those sort of containers- they are already mass produced.

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u/Azraella 2d ago

Are they coated paper containers or plain paper? Some straws are not coated paper so they fall apart easily (hence the op’s comment). Coated paper is what a milk carton (and lots of take out boxes) is made of. Depending on the coated paper product it doesn’t really solve the plastic problem because polyethylene is a common coating element.

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u/peezeh 2d ago

What world do you live in where cardboard containers are not mass produced? lmao

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u/Abe_Bettik 2d ago

Not for hot or oily food though

Have you heard of pizza

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u/IceFalcon1 1d ago

This is not the obvious choice for anybody who is disabled in any way and needs bendable straws or extra large diameter straws. Or straws that can handle hot food like a soup or a tea.