Styrofoam coffee cups ... Want to buy these goods online? It was no problem to log on to Amazon.com to find a variety of foam food ware products — Dart insulated hot/cold foam cups, or Hefty ...

Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. By now, most of us have heard of Styrofoam, also known as Polystyrene. It’s one of the most utilized polymers out there ...

California’s ban on polystyrene was one of the biggest wins for environmentalists in the state’s recent history. It went into effect on Jan. 1 — but no one, including the governor’s office ...

California’s ban on Styrofoam will now be enforced after the plastic industry failed to show a 25% recycling rate of the material last year. CalRecycle, the state’s department of resources ...

The styrofoam commonly used to hold our leftovers can take up to 500 years to break down before turning into toxic microplastics that can harm marine life. PhotoAlto/James Hardy/PhotoAlto Agency ...

What’s worse is the sight of the log boom where heaps of rubbish are collected, made up mainly of plastic bags and bottles and polystyrene containers.

But a number of the two-inch-long critters recently found themselves dining on much stranger fare in the service of science: polystyrene, the long-lived plastic packing material known sometimes by ...

It’s a new year, and that means the end of Styrofoam to-go containers in Oregon. As of Jan. 1, a new state law takes effect that bans restaurants and food carts from using polystyrene foam ...

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 ...

Why it matters: Over 25 million tons of single-use polystyrene packaging is manufactured annually on a global basis. However, only a tiny fraction gets recycled, with the vast majority ending up ...