Plastics
Capitola joins an estimated 100 cities throughout the country, including Berkeley and Oakland, in regulating polystyrene foam food service ware (Capitola City Ordinance 2009). The polystyrene manufacturing process is the fifth largest producer of hazardous waste in the United States, and the second worst environmental offender in California. Learn about how styrofoam and other plastics is harmful to people, wildlife and our environment.