AKRON, OHIO (Sept. 13, 3:55 p.m. ET) &— North American prices for solid polystyrene and PET bottle resin each headed up in August. Solid PS prices surged an average of& 5 cents per pound, while ...

Recycling and Solid Waste bought the $75,000 polystyrene foam densifier from New Jersey-based Foam Cycle LLC. It was funded primarily through a $50,000 grant from the Food Service Packaging Institute.

The ‘other’ PS #6 is rigid or solid polystyrene; it is used for cutlery, yogurt and cottage cheese containers, cups, clear salad bar containers, television cabinets, appliances, toys, compact ...

In solid PS, prices moved up 2 cents per pound in November after being flat for two consecutive months. Prior to that, prices had increased a total of 7 cents in the three-month June-August period.