A. "Polystyrene foam" means any styrene or vinyl chloride polymer which is blown into a foam-like material.

B. "Polystyrene foam food packaging" means any food packaging which contains any polystyrene foam.

C. "Customer" means anyone purchasing food or beverages from a restaurant or retail food vendor.

D. "Person", "Anyone" means any natural person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other organization or group however organized.

E. "Supplier" means anyone selling, or otherwise supplying food packaging to a restaurant or retail food vendor.

F. "Food vendor" means any restaurant or retail food vendor.

G. "Prepared food" means foods or beverages which are prepared on the vendor’s premises by cooking, chopping, slicing, mixing, freezing or squeezing, and which require no further preparation to be consumed. "Prepared food" does not include any raw uncooked meat product or fruits or vegetables which are not chopped, squeezed, or mixed.

H. "Restaurant" means any establishment located within the City of Berkeley, selling prepared food to be eaten on or about its premises by customers. Restaurant includes a sidewalk food vendor.

I. "Takeout food" means prepared foods or beverages requiring no further preparation to be consumed and which are generally purchased in order to be consumed off the retail food vendor’s premises.

J. "Retail food vendor" means any store, shop, sales outlet, or other establishment, including a grocery store or a delicatessen, other than a restaurant, located within the City of Berkeley, which sells takeout food.

K. "Food packaging" means all bags, sacks, wrapping, containers, bowls, plates, trays, cartons, cups, straws and lids which are not intended for reuse, on or in which any foods or beverages are placed or packaged on a restaurant’s or retail food vendor’s premises.

L. "Degradable food packaging" means food packaging which substantially reduces to its constituent substances through degradation processes initiated by natural organisms whose end products are substantially, but not necessarily entirely, carbon dioxide and water; and plastic items designed to degrade when exposed to ultraviolet light. Degradable food packaging does not include cellulose-based items which have a synthetic or plastic coating comprising more than five percent of the total volume of the item.

M. "Recyclable food packaging" means any food packaging including glass, cans, cardboard, paper, mixed paper, or other items which can be recycled, salvaged, composted, processed, or marketed by any means other than landfilling or burning, whether as fuel or otherwise, so that they are returned to use by society. (Ord. 5888-NS § 2, 1988)