DAVENPORT, Iowa — Hundreds of thousands of expanded polystyrene foam products, more commonly known as Styrofoam, are manufactured each year in the U.S. It's used to make takeout containers, disposable ...

Outagamie County Recycling & Solid Waste “Foam Dome” polystyrene foam densifier on Tuesday November 30, 2021, in Little Chute, Wis. The Resource Recovery Park accepts clean Expandable Polystyrene (EPS ...

Reduce, reuse, recycle. So many of us heard those three words repeatedly when growing up. And yet, despite the simple phrase, recycling in the U.S. is anything but. In fact, the complexities of U.S.

This holiday season, try giving the planet a present as well — recycling as much of your Christmas aftermath you can. According to Stanford, Americans throw away 25% more trash during the Thanksgiving ...

COLDWATER, MI — Schmitz Foam opened its new $6.5 million 88,000-square-foot Logistics operations center Friday, Sept. 19 with ...

The Rotary Club of Austin-Southwest organizes a monthly Styrofoam cleaning event aimed at reducing waste and reusing the material. Hosted the first Saturday of every month, the club collects, cleans ...

Although polystyrene consumer products are incredibly common, the economics of recycling means most of this type of plastic ...

I was delighted to read the article about recycling Styrofoam in Lake Zurich. How commendable. Polystyrene is such a toxic substance for the environment that finding a place to recycle it is marvelous ...

A city-wide Styrofoam recycling event is coming to Naperville next month. On Aug. 10, anyone wanting to get rid of the styrene plastic products often used for packaging, insulation and crafts can drop ...

The pilot program is being done to educate people about what can and cannot be thrown in the recycling and yard waste carts.

Two years after the city of Waco launched its Styrofoam recycling program at Cobbs Recycling Center, the initiative is still going strong, reducing landfill waste and bolstering environmental efforts ...