Plastic foam packaging should be banned for many reasons - it's choking our cities, waterways and countryside, it is carried from landfill in the wind where much of it ends up in our oceans constituting the largest amount of marine debris. It harms the environment and puts at risk the health of thousands of workers who produce styrene, it does not bio-degrade -ever- and it is made from non-renewable material to name just a few.

There are many alternatives to plastic foam packaging which are less harmful - recycled cardboard, bio-degradable starch etc that it is unacceptable to continue to produce and use it.

We call upon Bristol's Mayor, George Ferguson, to follow New York's lead and ban single use plastic foam from our city. This would save tonnes of plastic foam being sent to landfill and out into the environment and Bristol would truly be living up to it's Green ambition.