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# Standing with the ban
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/standing-with-the-ban-20080206/
- Published: 2008-02-06T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T18:20:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Does your favorite restaurant still use Styrofoam? The city recently introduced a ban on the ecologically unfriendly packaging, but it will take a while before it begins enforcing the new ordinance.

So this week’s Q-Line question asks: Would you stop going to your favorite eatery if they don’t comply with the Styrofoam ban sooner than later?

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your answers in the weekend edition of the Daily Press. Please limit responses to a minute or less.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 6, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/020608.pdf?ref=smdp.com)