Clamshell containers, cups and other food ware items made from expanded polystyrene foam are popularly—though incorrectly—called Styrofoam, which is a registered brand name for styrene foam ...

Polystyrene (PS) is created by mixing ethylene and benzene in the presence of aluminum chloride. This creates Ethylbenzene, which, when dehydrogenated, becomes Styrofoam. This foam-like material ...

Polystyrene foam is still being sold in the state of California despite a ban that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. (Susanne Rust/Los Angeles Times) Styrofoam coffee cups, plates, clamshell ...

State Sen. Laura Fine, a Democrat from Glenview who’s sponsoring the foam container bill, said there are alternatives to polystyrene and plastic bags and that the measures are necessary “to ...

A bill that would ban the use styrofoam takeout containers in Nevada is now awaiting the signature of Governor Joe ...

Plastic foam made with those components can last thousands of years, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. “Polystyrene foam is particularly bad,” said Janet Domenitz ...

The report by Oceana warns plastic foam, which used to be formally called expanded polystyrene and is sometimes referred to as Styrofoam, has become an “ever-present part of modern life”.

A distressing discovery on a quiet Australian beach has laid bare a catastrophe unfolding along Australia's coastline, ...