Bill to limit plastic utensils in restaurants wins legislative approval
A divided Legislature approved a bill Monday that would limit restaurants’ ability to provide their customers with plastic utensils and condiment packets.
The bill, if signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy, would require full-service restaurants to provide dine-in customers with only washable, reusable utensils, and it would bar them from giving takeout customers single-use cutlery unless the customer asks for it.
Casual dining restaurants, like fast food restaurants, would be able to provide disposable utensils or single-use condiment packets to all customers only upon request.
In all cases, restaurants would only be able to provide customers with single-use utensils and condiments in the amounts a customer requests.
