As the new year turns over, laws regarding polystyrene foam bans and restrictions on hotel single-use plastic take effect in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Until today, it was thought that polystyrene would pollute the environment ...

It has been 90 years since the first ready-to-use polystyrene was invented. Throughout its existence, polystyrene has enabled innovations in industries including health care, construction, food ...

The "Polystyrene Industry Outlook to 2030 - Capacity and Capital Expenditure Forecasts with Details of All Active and Planned Plants" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

A ban on sales of styrofoam products used in food service was supposed to have taken effect Jan. 1, but California hasn’t taken steps to enforce it. CalRecycle, the state agency tasked with ...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS), commonly known as styrofoam, doesn't degrade or break down over time. Styrofoam is recyclable, but it is only accepted by a very small number of recycling facilities. The ...

Polystyrene—most familiarly produced as foams, including Styrofoam—has given the world cheap, lightweight insulation and containers for taking food to go. But the material biodegrades so slowly that ...

Australian businesses are hurrying to meet a deadline to phase out many types of single-use plastics. The federal government wants to phase out plastics that end up in landfill, including expanded ...

Bordeaux and Marseille chemists have succeeded in transforming two of the most widely used but also most difficult plastics ...

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 ...