Polystyrene—common in packing peanuts and box inserts—is manufactured from fossil fuels. To develop a sustainable alternative ...

Waste swept off a sawmill floor, plant-based binders, and beeswax create foams with potential for sustainable packaging and ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and their partners from Clemson University have discovered a green, low-energy process to break down polystyrene, a type of plastic that ...

Operations are “no longer economically viable,” according to CEO Steve Harrington. About 100 people work at the Chicago-area ...

New report shows polystyrene recycling reaches 31% rate in North America with 81 companies accepting recovered material today ...

In a new MIT study – in partnership with Purdue, Northwestern, and Duke universities – chemists have discovered that ...

Microplastics (MPs) are defined as plastic particles smaller than 5 mm in size, and nanoplastics (NPs) are those MPs with a particle size of less than 1000 nm or 100 nm. The prevalence of MPs in the ...

Dublin, Feb. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Polystyrene (PS) World, Regions and Countries Market Analysis 2019-2024 and Outlook to 2034" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Polystyrene comes in pleasing shapes but where does it end up? (Picture: Getty) Plastics waste is now a waking environmental nightmare that no world leader can afford to ignore. The insane excess of ...

Researchers show that polystyrene, one of the world's most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades or centuries when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously thought. A ...