Los Gatos

Ban on eps food containers and coolers. Effective June 1, 2015.

Details of regulation: Prohibits food providers or vendors from dispensing prepared food to a customer in a polystyrene foam food container or selling polystyrene foam coolers or ice chests which are not wholly encapsulated or encased within a more durable material. Exemptions include raw eggs and raw, butchered meat, fish, or poultry and undue hardship.

Ordinances:

  1. No. 2235 – An Ordinance of the Town of Los Gatos Adding Article III to Chapter 10 of the Town of Los Gatos Municipal Code to Prohibit the Use of Polystyrene Foam Disposable Food Service Container-Ware by Food Providers.

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