Expanded polystyrene (EPS), also known as polystyrene foam, is a versatile and lightweight plastic. One key market for EPS is in packaging, where it’s used widely for take-out foodservice and to ...

Cumberland County, North Carolina, the fifth-most populous county in the state with over 336,000 residents, received a $50,000 grant from the Foodservice ...

Cumberland County has received a $50,000 grant from the Foodservice Packaging Institute’s FRC, enabling the recycling of foam ...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam is a problematic material, in that it's cheap and lightweight but also non-biodegradable and difficult to recycle. German scientists have developed a possible ...

ACH Foam Technologies (Denver, CO) is asking its business partners and end-users to join in a collaborative EPS (expanded polystyrene) packaging recycling effort. ACH already uses a closed-loop ...

Expanded and extruded polystyrene foam has been used in a variety of applications for several decades, and for nearly as long recycling advocates have tried to explore methods to recycle the material.

What began as a pilot program in Lake Zurich to recycle polystyrene has become so successful the village has paused for the ...

Every year the world produces 14 million tons of—non-biodegradable—polystyrene foam. The general-purpose plastic is hard, brittle, and cheap. And it forms everything from packing peanuts to disposable ...