Single-Use Items in Massachusetts (2026)

In the City of Everett, Massachusetts, Section 12-2007 bars every retail establishment from providing a disposable…

In the City of Framingham, thin-film single-use plastic checkout bags have been banned at every retail and grocery…

New Bedford prohibits distributing single-use plastic bags under 4 mils thick at retail establishments with 10,000+…

Quincy retailers cannot hand out disposable plastic shopping bags at checkout; a first violation draws a written…

Revere bars every retail establishment, from restaurants to pharmacies to grocery and liquor stores, from handing…

Somerville bans retail establishments from handing out disposable plastic shopping bags at checkout entirely, not a…

Worcester retailers cannot hand customers thin plastic checkout bags: only reusable bags, recyclable paper bags, or…

Cambridge retailers cannot hand out thin single-use plastic checkout bags. Under the Bring Your Own Bag Ordinance, any…

Chelsea bans plastic checkout bags at retail establishments citywide. Under Code of Ordinances section 10-4, adopted…

In the City of Chicopee, Massachusetts, Chapter 280 requires any retail establishment that provides a checkout bag to…

In the City of Haverhill, City Code § 173-10 bars retail establishments from handing out single-use plastic checkout…

In the City of Medford, Massachusetts, retail establishments cannot hand out thin-film plastic checkout bags under the…

Springfield, Massachusetts retailers, including food and ice cream trucks, may only hand out recyclable paper…

Boston bans thin single-use plastic checkout bags at retail establishments. Any bag a store hands out at checkout must…

Newton's food truck rules flatly bar plastic bags from every licensed truck operating in the city, while pushing…

Revere bans food establishments from serving prepared food in polystyrene, PVC or PET containers, and bans retail…

Somerville bans food establishments from dispensing prepared food in expanded polystyrene (foam) containers, and bars…

Cambridge Code Chapter 8.70 bars food establishments, including school cafeterias, from dispensing prepared food in…

In the City of Medford, Massachusetts, the Polystyrene Container Ordinance bars food establishments and city facilities…

Somerville food establishments cannot hand out plastic beverage straws with a meal unless a customer asks for one…

Revere's 2022 food-ware ordinance bans polystyrene, PVC and PET food service ware, but it expressly carves straws out…

Plastic cutlery cannot be handed out with prepared food in Somerville unless a customer asks for it. Section 9-106.2…

Revere requires food establishments that use disposable takeout containers, cups, lids or utensils to choose…