Revere, MA Single-Use Items: Plastic Straw Rules (2026)

100 is Revere's sustainable food ware and packaging ordinance, and it reaches disposable cups, plates, trays, cartons, lids, forks, spoons, knives and film wrap made of polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride or polyethylene terephthalate. Subsection B(1) bans food establishments from serving prepared food in that banned material, and subsection C lists the exemptions from that ban. Item C(4) is a single, direct sentence: straws are expressly allowed under the section and exempt from the regulations contained in it. 100 faces no city requirement to switch to paper straws, provide straws only on request, or avoid plastic straws entirely; the straw exemption sits alongside the ordinance's other carve-outs, which exempt food prepared or packaged outside the city and let the director of municipal inspections grant a renewable one-year hardship waiver from any other specific requirement.

Because the exemption is written into the same 2022 ordinance, City Ordinance 21-368, that otherwise bans polystyrene, PVC and PET service ware, it reads as a deliberate legislative choice rather than an oversight, and it means Revere diverges from municipalities that separately regulate straws by requiring them on request only. The exemption applies citywide to every food and retail establishment covered by the section, with no separate registration, size threshold or phase-in date the way the ordinance's other provisions use.