This legislative session, Maryland state Sen. Cheryl Kagan and Del. Brooke Lierman are introducing a ban on polystyrene foam foodservice products, including the trademarked Styrofoam versions, and ...

Polystyrene—most familiarly produced as foams, including Styrofoam—has given the world cheap, lightweight insulation and containers for taking food to go. But the material biodegrades so slowly that ...

The new law, signed Monday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, restricts restaurants’ use of disposable plastic items, requires recycled content in some plastic bottles and bags, and bans most uses of ...

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 ...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam is a problematic material, in that it's cheap and lightweight but also non-biodegradable and difficult to recycle. German scientists have developed a possible ...

More than half of council tower blocks in Bristol have flammable polystyrene cladding which will be removed after a fire last month. Removing the cladding could take a decade and fire safety experts ...

New York City Council has banned the foam food containers Washington%2C D.C.%2C mayor is proposing a ban Environmentalists have been waging a decades-long campaign Polystyrene foam – commonly, but not ...

San Francisco county supervisors recently adopted the nation’s strictest ban on polystyrene foam, prohibiting its use in takeout containers and shipping materials and barring the sale of foam retail ...

There's an old joke that if you were reincarnated, you might want to come back as a polystyrene foam cup. Why? Because they last forever. Ba-dum-bum. Despite being made 95 percent of air, polystyrene ...