Photo by Joshua Yospyn.

Get ready to say au revoir to foam containers in the District.

Yesterday, WAMU reports that the D.C. Council passed an environmental bill that includes a provision banning restaurants and food trucks from using containers and cups made of plastic foam, better known as styrofoam, although it isn’t actually styrofoam.

The legislation passed yesterday follows suit with numerous West Coast cities—including Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle—that have banned foam containers based on new scientific data proving that it’s harmful to the environment.

The bill, which was submitted to the D.C. Council by mayor Vince Gray, follows a law passed three years ago that added a five-cent tax on plastic bags, in an attempt to make D.C. a more environmentally friendly city. WAMU reports that the plastic bag tax law has since “generated about $2 million a year for river cleanup programs and is credited by environmental activists with keeping many stray bags out of the water.”

Under the legislation passed yesterday, the ban on containers and cups made of polystyrene foam will take effect in 2016, and also requires restaurants, food trucks, and take-out establishments to only provide “recyclable or compostable food ware by 2018.”

The legislation is now in the hands of Mayor Gray to be signed into law (which he’ll obviously do) before it undergoes a 30-day Congressional review period.