Polystyrene can also potentially leach toxins into food and beverages. Can Styrofoam Cups Be Recycled? Americans throw away an astonishing 25 billion Styrofoam cups each and every year.

EPS can still be recycled. But unfortunately, doing so is not as easy as throwing it into the nearest blue recycle bin. Here's what you need to know. Note: "Styrofoam" is a DuPont registered ...

According to Singer, there’s simply no recycling business for Styrofoam. “There’s no value for the recycled products. It’s cheaper [for the government] to send it to a landfill,” she ...

Safer and environmentally friendly alternatives to Styrofoam include to-go containers and cups made from recycled plants and wood fibers, to-go cups made from recycled plastics and even "edible ...

Unfortunately, most packaging (by design) can’t be recycled. And if you throw it ... like molded plastic or Styrofoam. If you want to recycle these boxes, you must remove the other materials ...

"One of the delays in this area - Styrofoam - was we wanted to make sure it didn't just get recycled and dumped, that it was recycled into a useful product," he said. The city plans to transport the ...

Styrofoam accounts for 30% of waste in the landfill, according to Lott Industries. The company has been recycling styrofoam for over two years, and it wants to expand its mission in the community.

It is called Waste to Waves (WTW), and it's simple enough: convert recycled packaging Styrofoam into raw surfboard blanks. WTW's partners at Marko Foam have long produced environmentally friendly ...

“Polystyrene cannot be recycled like a lot of other products, so while that cup of coffee may be finished, the Styrofoam cup it was in is not,” Mills said in a statement. “In fact, it will ...