A COUPLE who are building their house out of polystyrene have revealed they'll end up cutting their energy bills down by a whopping 70%. Hannah and Charlie are building their first house together ...

In a Tijuana factory, Lego-like polystyrene building blocks, weighing 3 pounds each, are produced and shipped throughout Central America to build homes and other structures. The Central America ...

Similarly, the construction industry benefits from polystyrene's exceptional thermal insulation properties, which are increasingly valued in green building initiatives aimed at energy efficiency.

Polystyrene is widely used for insulation in construction projects, making it popular and versatile. The packaging material can be used in building homes in innovative technology, leaving space to ...

Polystyrene, the main material in plastic tableware and insulating materials, is a widely used polymer but is currently difficult to recycle. Reporting in the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of US ...

and cost- and energy-efficient ways to breakdown plastics to their primary building blocks such as polystyrene are urgently needed. "Less than 5% of polystyrene is recycled at present -- our work ...