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04/09/2012 <br /> service ware include reusing or recycling food service ware and using <br /> compostabie materials made from renewable resources such as paper, cardboard, <br /> com starch, potato starch, and/or sugarcane. <br /> (d) This Board does, accordingly, find and declare that it should restrict the use by <br /> food vendors of polystyrene-based disposable food service ware. <br /> 4.107.020 Definitions. <br /> For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: <br /> (a) "Disposabie food service ware" means single-use disposable products used in the <br /> restaurant and food service industry for serving or transporting prepared, ready-to- <br /> consume food or beverages. This includes but is not limited to plates, cups, bowls, <br /> trays and hinged or lidded containers, also known as clamshells. This does not <br /> include straws, utensils, or cup lids nor does it include disposable packaging for <br /> unprepared foods. <br /> (b) "Food vendor" means any vendor, business, organization, entity, group or <br /> ind'+vidual, including a licensed retail food establishment that provides prepared <br /> food at a retail level. <br /> (c) "Polystyrene-based" means and includes expanded polystyrene, which is a <br /> thermoplastic petrochemical material utilizirig a styrene monomer and processed <br /> by any number of techniques including , but not limited to fusion of polymer <br /> spheres (expandable.bead polystyrene), injection molding, form molding, and <br /> extrusion-blow molding (extruded foam polystyrene). The term "polystyrene" also <br /> includes polystyrene that has been expanded or blown using a gaseous bVowing <br /> agent into a solid foam (expanded polystyrene (EPS)), and clear or solid <br /> polystyrene known as oriented polystyrene. <br /> f�,� r�.� <br /> i, cJ 'Fa. <br /> RESO. 75184 <br /> MUFF # 305 <br />