Epsilyte, a leading North American producer of Expandable Polystyrene (EPS), will increase the price of all grades of EPS by $0.09/lb., effective March 15, 2026, or as contracts permit. These ...

Sunlight can be used to convert polystyrene waste and excess sulfur into valuable organic products. The team that created the new process hopes that it could be a way to tackle the millions of tonnes ...

New study reveals 169 polystyrene recycling facilities across North America with opportunities for significant growth and ...

Cockroach gut microbes can rapidly degrade polystyrene, demonstrating their potential for plastic bioremediation.

Conducted in partnership with Resource Recycling Systems, the study identifies 126 companies and 169 facilities processing ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental crises, with polystyrene (PS) among the hardest polymers ...

The Polystyrene Recycling Alliance (PSRA), a North American coalition advancing scalable polystyrene recycling solutions, released a comprehensive study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polystyrene foam is still being sold in the state of California despite a ban that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. (Susanne Rust ...

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 ...

The use of plastics to produce wood-like products is a familiar part of many component industries. UK car manufacturers may be the only ones left who can boast that, their wood trim is actually made ...

Plastic products are ubiquitous in our food supply chain, shedding microplastics into every part of the human ecosystem. As they degrade, microplastics break down into even smaller fragments called ...

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 ...