The Polystyrene Recycling Alliance (PSRA), a North American coalition advancing scalable polystyrene recycling solutions, released a comprehensive study ...

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, ...

New study reveals 169 polystyrene recycling facilities across North America with opportunities for significant growth and ...

Conducted in partnership with Resource Recycling Systems, the study identifies 126 companies and 169 facilities processing ...

The Falls Church, Virginia-based Foodservice Packaging Institute’s (FPI’s) Foam Recycling Coalition has opened applications for its 2026 grant program.

Expanded polystyrene (EPS), also known as polystyrene foam, is a versatile and lightweight plastic. One key market for EPS is in packaging, where it’s used widely for take-out foodservice and to ...

Engineers have modelled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. The team of chemical engineers, based at the University of Bath in the ...

The styrofoam commonly used to hold our leftovers can take up to 500 years to break down before turning into toxic microplastics that can harm marine life. PhotoAlto/James Hardy/PhotoAlto Agency RF ...

This new recycling method would create an incentive for polystyrene to be collected and recycled instead of going into landfills or becoming plastic pollution. "I think it's important for people to ...

Cumberland County, North Carolina, received a $50,000 grant from the Foodservice Packaging Institute’s Foam Recycling ...