Interest has been growing in requiring restaurants to use recyclable/compostable food packaging, which can help local governments achieve their waste diversion goals and helps decrease the amount of harmful plastics entering our waterways as marine debris litter. Currently, San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Monica require restaurants to use recyclable or compostable takeout food packaging. According to several state-wide litter characterization studies, food packaging from fastfood restaurants is one of the most abundant types of litter. Much of this is unrecyclable plastic, which travel our watersheds to the oceans where it will be a choking hazard for marine wildlife for hundreds of years. CAW-sponsored AB 904 builds upon these ordinances and creates a state-wide recyclable/compostable food packaging requirement for fast food restaurants.