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 ...

Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups? Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative ...

Fed up with the state’s refusal to enforce a law banning the sale of polystyrene foam cups, plates and bowls, a San Diego County resident has taken matters into his own hands. Jeffrey Heavey, a chef ...

San DiegoSan Diego — A statewide lobbying group for restaurants has filed a lawsuit seeking to block San Diego from enforcing its recently adopted ban on polystyrene foam food and beverage containers.

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.

WAILUKU — The Maui County Council on Thursday evening unanimously passed a bill to ban the sale and use of polystyrene foam containers — a staple of takeout food eateries — throughout Maui County. The ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — As the forklift lurched toward a nearby truck, its prongs began to slide between two foam blocks loaded on the trailer. An unmistakable squeak followed, like Styrofoam being jammed ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X About 115,000 polystyrene foam cups and carry-out containers washed down Baltimore’s Jones Falls ...

Still swimming in cardboard boxes, block foam, bubble wrap and colored lights — not to mention that bizarrely off-the-mark present from you-know-who? Recycling and donating used stuff has grown both ...

When you own an enormous CNC router, you’ve got to find projects that justify it. So why not shoot for the sky — literally — and build the 1980s-est possible thing: a full-scale flying Delorean.

A San Diego chef and caterer filed suit after buying plastic foam cups at this Smart & Final Store in National City, Calif. (Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times) Fed up with the state's refusal to ...