Why styrofoam is so hard to recycle and what you can do about it

Expanded polystyrene, or styrofoam, is hard to recycle. Reduce usage, repurpose the packaging, or seek out town and shipping ...
Orlando Sentinel

POLYSTYRENE FOAM SHAPES UP AS ALTERNATIVE FOR BUILDING WALLS

Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups? Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative ...
Yahoo Finance

Polystyrene Foam Market expected to grow at a growth rate of 4.25 percent reaching 36.93 Bn by 2029, Technological advancements, Competitive Landscape

Dublin, Feb. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Maximize Market Research, a leading Material and Chemical market research firm has published a report on the “Polystyrene Foam Market”. The report includes ...
Houston Chronicle

Westpark Recycling Center now taking polystyrene foam

Houstonians have for years been able to recycle most of the packaging from the products they buy — plastic, cardboard, paper — and a host of other materials. Now they can add polystyrene foam to the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Restaurants sue to block San Diego ban on polystyrene foam

San DiegoSan Diego — A statewide lobbying group for restaurants has filed a lawsuit seeking to block San Diego from enforcing its recently adopted ban on polystyrene foam food and beverage containers.
Business Wire

Innovative PolyStyreneLoop Plant Will Recycle Polystyrene Foam Demolition Waste and Recover Valuable Resources

TERNEUZEN, the Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new recycling plant in the Netherlands will recycle expanded polystyrene (EPS) demolition waste and also handle a legacy additive. The PolyStyreneLoop ...
USA Today

Cities ban foam coffee cups and takeout containers

Your coffee shop's cup of Joe may be getting a makeover as more U.S. cities try to curb litter with bans or limits on foam cups and takeout food containers. The campaign against polystyrene packaging, ...

Scientists transform Styrofoam cups and containers into nylon products

Each year, more than 20 million tons of polystyrene, or Styrofoam, accumulate on earth. It’s on your take-out container, food ...
The Baltimore Sun

Maryland is set to become the first state to go foam-free. What will it cost?

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X About 115,000 polystyrene foam cups and carry-out containers washed down Baltimore’s Jones Falls ...
katu

Recycle block foam for free Feb. 6

What's white, rigid and takes up a lot of space in garbage carts and landfills? The answer: Block foam. The solution: A free collection event for Clark County residents from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Feb. 6, ...
The Columbian

Reducing, recycling easy in Clark County — but also tricky

Still swimming in cardboard boxes, block foam, bubble wrap and colored lights — not to mention that bizarrely off-the-mark present from you-know-who? Recycling and donating used stuff has grown both ...