Polystyrene — the plastic America loves to hate — wants a second chance. Used in foam cups, packaging peanuts and the molded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A coffee cup made from polystyrene foam, commonly known as styrofoam, lies on the side of a road in Augusta, Maine, in 2019.

Engineers have modeled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. The chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging ...

A developer in downtown Sudbury was temporarily ordered to stop work when polystyrene pellets escaped their construction zone ...

A binman has revealed what bin polystyrene should go in, admitting it is one of the most commonly confused items. The plastic ...

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 ...

Scientists assessed changes in the gut microbiome of superworms (Zophobas morio) in a new study. The University of Queensland Researchers in Australia have identified enzymes in the gut of certain ...

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 ...