California Assembly Bill 1276 prohibits food facilities from automatically including single-use foodware accessories like utensils, straws, condiment packets, and napkins. Customers must specifically request them or check a box for online and delivery orders.
California Assembly Bill 1276 (2021), codified at Public Resources Code Section 42270 et seq., requires all food facilities including restaurants, food trucks, and third-party delivery platforms to provide single-use foodware accessories only at the customer's request or at self-serve stations. This applies to plastic utensils, chopsticks, condiment cups and packets, cocktail and splash sticks, stirrers, and unwrapped straws. Online and delivery menus must include a check-box or affirmative selection. Long Beach Environmental Services enforces alongside Health Department inspections. The goal is to reduce litter on Long Beach beaches and the LA River outflow, where plastic utensils are common.
After two written warnings, food facilities can face administrative fines of twenty-five dollars per day up to three hundred dollars annually under AB 1276, plus local enforcement under LBMC Title 8 nuisance and litter provisions.
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