Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and their partners from Clemson University have discovered a green, low-energy process to break down polystyrene, a type of plastic that ...

Polystyrene—common in packing peanuts and box inserts—is manufactured from fossil fuels. To develop a sustainable alternative ...

Dublin, Feb. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Polystyrene (PS) World, Regions and Countries Market Analysis 2019-2024 and Outlook to 2034" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Ottawa, July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global polystyrene market volume was valued at 40.09 million tons in 2024 and is projected to hit around 62.33 million tons by 2034, growing at a compound ...

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

New report shows polystyrene recycling reaches 31% rate in North America with 81 companies accepting recovered material today ...

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 ...

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has officially vetoed House Bill 25, a measure introduced by Representative Andy Josephson that aimed to prohibit single-use polystyrene foam foodware across the state.

Researchers show that polystyrene, one of the world's most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades or centuries when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously thought. A ...

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 ...

Australian businesses are hurrying to meet a deadline to phase out many types of single-use plastics. The federal government wants to phase out plastics that end up in landfill, including expanded ...