https://reason.com/2019/04/12/the-biggest-victims-from-progressives-pl/

“The villain here is big oil. The fossil fuel industry did this to us,” said De Blasio at a press conference, standing at a podium adorned with a “Stop Plastic Waste, Stop Big Oil” sign. “Today, we say no to plastics. We say no to fossil fuels. We say yes to a better and fairer future.”

From a quick search, it looks like about 20% of the plastic waste in the US is recycled. The majority either goes to landfills or is incinerated. Doesn’t seem likely that allowing food containers to use recycled plastics would “kill” the market.

What is FDA’s expressed reason, then?

“Fear of contamination, I’d assume.”

No. The recycling process would take care of that. The main reason is that it would cut the use of new plastic in half, killing the market.

the half-million American laws already in force are not near enough to make Americans do right.

we need full-time law makers at every level of American government… and 100 times that many in seperate regulation-making agencies.
Pay them extremely well so they will be really productive in new rule-making.

Fear of contamination, I’d assume.

My absolute most favorite recycling story was related to me by a wise old engineer…. It seems that a Korean paper product was produced from paper that came through a (sophisticated, modern) recycling facility that occasionally received co-mingled loads …i.e., there were other products besides paper in the received waste stream, which then had to be sorted.

The paper product was contaminated with tiny bits of glass from broken bottles.
The paper product?
Toilet paper.
Ouch.

The ban on plastic bags and plastic straws has nothing to do with the environment. It has to do with control. That and the envirowackos hate for the oil industry, which makes the chemicals that plastics are made from.