The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the sale and use of specified disposable food service ware and other products containing polystyrene foam in the city to protect the environment and the public health, safety and welfare from the environmental impacts of such products. Large volumes of polystyrene foam products are disposed of in Sonoma County, and such products are not fully biodegradable, and currently have no locally available, economically feasible recycling program. Polystyrene foam products also pose a threat to marine and other wildlife as well as to creeks and waterways and contaminate the public drainage system. This chapter is intended to reduce the environmental and public health, safety and welfare threats from disposal of polystyrene foam products. (Ord. 2695 NCS §4 (part), 2019.)