Coronado City Council went over their legislative policy guidelines for the year, making slight changes before approving the guidelines. Staff photo by Madeline Yang.

A polystyrene and single-use plastics ordinance is now in place throughout Coronado after a unanimous vote from the City Council at the Feb. 18 meeting.

It will go into effect in 30 days and will be enforced 180 days after it takes effect.

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The final ordinance includes more than a dozen directives for the city, including:

  • Food-service providers and retail establishments are not allowed to provide food in containers made from polystyrene or single-use plastic; 
  • Those businesses may distribute only reusable carryout bags or recyclable paper carryout bags;
  •  balloon vendors may not sell or distribute any type of balloon inflated with a gas lighter than air within the city.

A violation of the new regulations will constitute an infraction. Each regulation that is infringed upon will be treated as a separate violation.

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Madeline Yang is a reporter for The Coronado News, covering the City of Coronado, the U.S Navy and investigating the Tijuana/Coronado sewage issue. She graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University with her Bachelors in Journalism with an emphasis in Visual Storytelling. She loves writing, photography and videography and one day hopes to be a filmmaker. She can be reached by phone at 916-835-5843.