When exposed to sunlight, the plastic polystyrene takes centuries, not millennia, to break down. Newsletters Amazon Prime Day Share a News Tip. Featured. Featured. Breaking News. White House Watch.

The researchers explain that while it may indeed take thousands of years for polystyrene to break down in the absence of light as previously estimated, being bathed in the sun’s rays can shorten ...

Polystyrene, as useful as it seemed, is a harmful substance, known to leak toxic chemicals. The foam-like structure can cause it to break into small pieces, which are easily carried away in the wind.

SB54 put an end to polystyrene — which had low recycling rates and high levels of pollution — in California. But the plastic industry may have spooked the governor into silence.

Instead of turning the material into new polystyrene products, breaking it down chemically into more valuable substances could be a more cost-effective alternative. So far, though, chemical ...

Expanded polystyrene foam, the white fluffy plastic in styrofoam, was banned in food service ware on Jan. 1. But shoppers in CA say its still on the shelves.

New polystyrene recycling process could be world's first to be both economical and energy-efficient Chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging material, cutting landfill waste ...

What’s Next — These factors make the method more economically viable than past polystyrene recycling methods, Liu says. He hopes that large-scale recycling plants will find their concept more ...

Alex Wilson at Environmental Building News notes another significant problem with polystyrene insulation, found almost universally in structural insulated panels (SIPs) and ICFs: they are full of ...

The team divided 171 superworms into three groups that were each fed either wheat bran, polystyrene or no food at all for three weeks. The researchers found that the worms began to chew their way ...

Illinois lawmakers are considering two measures designed to cut down on the use of plastic bags and polystyrene meal containers. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 83°F.

Polystyrene homopolymer, known as “crystal" polystyrene in the trade, is an amorphous, colorless, and transparent commodity thermoplastic. It is rigid, brittle, relatively hard and has excellent gamma ...