Trying to recycle the wrong packaging gunks up the works at overtaxed recycling centers. Here’s what to sort in your bins and what to throw in the trash.

It won't be long before reams of torn wrapping paper and a potential blizzard of Styrofoam packing peanuts finds its way to your house during the holidays.Then comes the hard part: what can and ...

Freshly, a prepared meals company, heard complaints from customers about the Styrofoam it was using to insulate its boxes. So it came up with a substitute made from recycled denim, which has been ...

Styrofoam remains a ubiquitous material for takeout containers, disposable coffee cups, and protective cushioning for fragile items during shipping. The material—called expanded polystyrene or ...

Consumers are encouraged to drop off Styrofoam and other expandable polystyrene foam for recycling. This includes the hard packaging one might find protecting a new TV or computer monitor.

Over 380 million tons of plastic are produced every year and 50% of that is for single-use purposes such as product packaging. Until now, companies have been hard-pressed to find a replacement for ...

SANTA CRUZ, California (KPIX) — Last month, we showed you a company in Santa Cruz that is revolutionizing the packaging industry with its eco-friendly version of polystyrene foam, commonly known ...

We've long been dependent on styrofoam for packaging, but that lightweight protective material is virtually impossible to decompose. So it makes sense that scientists are working on--or rather ...

Pregis LLC, a Chicago-based protective packaging developer, has unveiled a foam packaging product supported by certified-circular polyethylene (PE) resins through a collaboration with Irving, ...

Several states across the US have recently implemented, or are preparing to introduce, bans on polystyrene foam (commonly known as Styrofoam) products.