Expanded polystyrene (EPS), also known as polystyrene foam, is a versatile and lightweight plastic. One key market for EPS is in packaging, where it’s used widely for take-out foodservice and to ...

As governments across the country consider or adopt polystyrene (PS) bans, one bill to ban PS takeout containers and cups recently failed to pass a floor vote in the Oregon House of Representatives.

A trio of companies from different nations has announced a partnership designed to recycle polystyrene packaging collected in consumer curbside and drop-off recycling systems and from sources such as ...

Bordeaux and Marseille chemists have succeeded in transforming two of the most widely used but also most difficult plastics ...

The project proves the feasibility of post-consumer waste becoming a valuable feedstock, thus creating a circular economy for polystyrene. The project also included a commercial and an ecological ...

Ocean trash and overflowing landfills have drawn widespread attention to the plastic waste that we put into our environment. In response, communities around the world work hard to reduce, reuse, and ...

After years of providing a free polystyrene recycling service for 10 northwest suburban locations, Ken Santowski recently announced he was shutting it down. He could no longer afford to store ...

For years, those big chunks of polystyrene — commonly referred to as Styrofoam — used as packaging inside the box your new television or computer came in were thrown in the trash and ended up in a ...

Polystyrene can be used once and thrown away, like with a coffee cup, or recycled back into new products over and over again. Regenyx prefers the second method. The Oregon company, a joint venture of ...

LANSING — Lansing has a new drop-off recycling center, open sun up to sun down, and it accepts polystyrene, also known as Styrofoam, at no charge. Kerrin O'Brien, executive director of the Michigan ...