polystyrene foam (a.k.a. “Styrofoam”) containers never belong in your mixed recycling bin or cart. Foam is excluded from nearly every mixed recycling program in the country, as sorting it ...

Mark Walsten called foam “the scourge of the Earth” and said he’d support a complete ban on polystyrene food packaging. Until that happens, he said, recycling is the next best solution.

Polystyrene languishes in landfills indefinitely, taking at least 500 years – and possibly much longer – to decompose. Recycling is clearly a far better option. In 2006, the Alliance of Foam ...

Recycling centers are partnering with local municipalities across the nation to recycle polystyrene foam, which is diverting thousands of cubic feet of waste from landfills.

Brandon added that there are few options for recycling polystyrene foam ware. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that less than 1 percent gets recycled. California's 2022 law on ...

Consumers are encouraged to drop off Styrofoam and other expandable polystyrene foam for recycling. This includes the hard packaging one might find protecting a new TV or computer monitor.

RIDGEFIELD PARK — If you've ever felt guilty about throwing packaging foam in the trash instead ... for all municipalities to recycle expanded polystyrene, which many call Styrofoam, a ...

This holiday season, try giving the planet a present as well — recycling as much of your ... the capability to sort out expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam. You can find out if there's one in ...

The newest addition to the Lyndonville Recycling Center has quite the appetite for expanded polystyrene foam. Made up mostly of air, styrofoam has always been sent to the landfill. “This machine ...

But the following month, Green Century Recycling in Northwest Portland filled the gap. The company opened a customer drop-off that accepts polystyrene foam — commonly called by the brand name ...

Stained material is acceptable. Aside from few and far between drop-off centers, such as in Winnetka and Highland Park, polystyrene foam food ware recycling is hard to come by for everyday ...