Big Foam, local environmentalists and City Council members are battling over whether the city should recycle styrofoam products or ban them entirely.

Bronx Democratic Councilman Fernando Cabrera introduced a bill in March requiring households to separate polystyrene foam containers and recycle them.

The proposal would mandate the city Sanitation Department come up with a plan to collect and clean the plastic products.

Cabrera wrangled 16 council members to co-sponsor his bill, backed by midwestern plastics giant Dart Container Corp.

Dart executives, who have spent $837,000 lobbying the City Council and city agencies since 2013, called the bill “good, forward-thinking public policy.”

But advocates claim the proposal is really an effort to fend off an outright ban of foam.

“The plastics companies just want to create a market so people can keep buying and selling those products,” said Neighbors Allied for Good Growth consultant Jennie Romer.