NYC Council Introduction 1283

intro.nyc/1283-2025 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Prohibiting the selling of untethered plastic bottle caps.
Status: Committee Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
Sponsored by James F. Gennaro
Introduced: May 28, 2025

This bill would prohibit the sale of any single use beverage container which does not have a tethered cap that prevents the separation of the cap from the container when removed from the container by the consumer, or which does not have an opening from which the beverage can be consumed while the cap is affixed to the container. The prohibition would begin on January 1, 2032.