The Los Angeles City Council has approved a new ban on certain single-use plastics, taking the latest step in an effort toward becoming a “zero-waste” city. All 12 council members present for ...
JUPITER, Fla. — Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried held a news conference Friday morning at the Jupiter Lighthouse to discuss the next steps of her proposal to phase out polystyrene products ...
Efforts to push Styrofoam out of Boston have ramped up as local lawmakers aim to protect the community and the environment. According to the East Boston Times-Free Press, Boston City Councilor ...
Polystyrene, the polymer commonly used to make foam packaging, insulation, and food containers, is notoriously difficult to recycle. Instead of turning the material into new polystyrene products, ...
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Polystyrene-Plastic Material and Resins Market (2024 Edition): Analysis by End-User Industry (Packaging Industry, Construction, Consumer, Electronics, and Other End-User ...
This year marks the 90th anniversary of polystyrene, and while some have argued it’s time for this and other polymers to retire, others envision a greener future for the material. Polystyrene sprang ...
Starting July 1, restaurants, grocery stores and other food providers in Ventura will be banned from using food and drink containers made of expanded polystyrene, commonly known by the trademarked ...
THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With an end goal of keeping polystyrene products out of landfills through an innovative circular recycling process, AmSty is announcing its commitment that all ...
The Stache Lab at Cornell, led by Prof. Erin Stache, chemistry and chemical biology, has discovered an efficient way to decompose non-biodegradable plastic polystyrene — a material commonly used in ...