The holiday season is in full swing, and with it comes family, food, gifts – and a whole lot of trash. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in the period between Thanksgiving and New ...

Polystyrene, the polymer commonly used to make foam packaging, insulation, and food containers, is notoriously difficult to recycle. Instead of turning the material into new polystyrene products, ...

Maine this week became the first state in the U.S. to ban polystyrene, or Styrofoam, food containers; other states also are considering restrictions on plastic foam materials. Styrofoam's light weight ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Until today, it was thought that polystyrene would pollute the environment ...

An environmentalist, Jibril Mohammed, says the usage of polystyrene items by food vendors to serve foods at social occasions is destructive to the environment. Mohammed, who is an environmentalist ...

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 ...

Oceanside businesses and restaurants can no longer distribute styrofoam packaging. The polystyrene foam ban is now in effect. KPBS North County reporter Alexander Nguyen has reactions from local ...

The Evanston Environment Board signaled support for a city ordinance that would ban expanded polystyrene, a plastic commonly referred to as Styrofoam. A group of Evanston residents proposed a draft ...

Protestors rallied outside Whataburger corporate offices Tuesday demanding the burger chain stop using its signature orange and white drink cups. It's just a cup for some, but others see it as a ...

Hilliard citizens and businesses have been keeping Styrofoam out of curbside waste bins and dumpsters, thanks to the city of Hilliard’s Styrofoam densifier. Now, more organizations are partnering with ...

Activists are pressuring San Antonio-based Whataburger to end its use of foam cups and containers in favor of materials that are friendlier to the environment. More than 50,000 people have signed a ...

Around 53,000 people have signed an environmental group’s petition demanding that Whataburger stop using polystyrene cups. Environment Texas delivered copies of the petition to three Whataburger ...