Require Restaurants to Accept Customer Reusable Cups
In committee as of May 11, 2026Under review by an assigned committee.
✦ Plain-Language Summary
This bill would require all restaurants, cafes, and other food businesses to let customers use their own reusable cups instead of single-use plastic cups. Businesses would also have to post signs telling customers they can bring their own cups for drinks.
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Details
- Introduced
- Mar 26, 2026
- Body
- Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
- Type
- Introduction
- Status
- Committee
Sponsors (5)
Official Description
This bill would require all food service establishments in the city to allow customers to substitute their own reusable beverage cups in place of the single-use plastic beverage cups provided by those food service establishments. It would also require food service establishments that serve beverages in single use plastic cups to post signage announcing that “Customers may request the service of beverages in their own reusable cups.” The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection would be charged with enforcing this local law and promulgating rules implementing it.