It appears Republicans and Democrats may have found something to agree on – foam-based docks don’t belong in New York’s waterways. Earlier this year, state Sen. Mark Walczyk, R-Watertown, introduced S ...

"Styrofoam" is the patented name of a type of insulation made by DuPont de Nemours, Inc, and is not used in the dock billets. That term has been replaced with the more general "polystyrene" term.

Dock owners on Beaver Lake and similar U.S. Army Corps of Engineers properties still have years to replace Styrofoam with encapsulated flotation, park ranger Alan Bland said.

Miami Beach environmentalist Dave Doebler says he doesn't think most people know how bad styrofoam really is for the ocean. He says he sees people using temporary, floating docks made from bare ...

Floridians face a potential health hazard because of Styrofoam in their water, according to Pasco County environmental engineer Marc Rhodes.

Since the hurricane, First Coast News found many big pieces of floating docks in Salt Run and the Intracoastal Waterway with Styrofoam bottoms. That Styrofoam breaks up into little Styrofoam pebbles.

Continued impact against the cement dock led the plastic foam dock to fall apart, sending up to 200,000 or more small pieces of polystyrene to wash up on Incline Village beaches.

Volunteers worked to clean up thousands of white balls that filled the shores of Tahoe's Incline Village after recent storm broke apart a dock.

The dock washed onto Lighthouse Beach near Charleston eight days ago and started breaking into pieces of wood, concrete, rebar and plastic foam, The World newspaper in Coos Bay reported.