The product targets tray applications for fresh food, including meat and fish, and food service items such as clamshells and ...

With the holiday season in full swing, gifts of all shapes and sizes are being shipped around the world. But all that packaging generates lots of waste, including cardboard boxes and plastic-based ...

To develop a sustainable alternative to polystyrene, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials tested an ...

Those bits that come inside your packages are called peanuts, but of course they are made from polystyrene, not anything natural. But what if we could send things packaged in popcorn—the actual food, ...

The Polystyrene Recycling Alliance (PSRA) has released two business cases challenging the classification of polystyrene packaging materials, presenting evidence that both expanded polystyrene (EPS) ...

As lawmakers take aim at hard-to-recycle plastic and foam, a California packaging company is introducing a new shipping cooler made of woven paper fibers that could transform how temperature-sensitive ...

Researchers have converted waste sawdust into packaging foams with beeswax coatings, expected to match the strength and ...

Proving it's more than just a lightweight packing material, Styrofoam is at the center of the RISD Museum's newest exhibition, which features a diverse collection of Styrofoam-related works from ...

You’ve already said so long to plastic bags. Now get ready to bid adieu to Styrofoam food containers and packing peanuts. Starting Jan. 1, food containers and packing materials made of polystyrene ...

Now that you've finally finished with the packing, loading, relocating, unloading and unpacking, you can tackle your final project in the moving process -- getting rid of your packing materials. With ...