This creates Ethylbenzene, which, when dehydrogenated, becomes Styrofoam. This foam-like material, which is about 90-95% air, can be formed into many different shapes.

Messy construction can lead to a range of issues for people in the vicinity and the wider environment. An outraged homeowner ...

Most foam cups and containers are not technically Styrofoam, but are made of polystyrene foam according to Melissa Valliant, communications director for Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit organization ...

T he storms that arrived with the King Tide on Saturday and Sunday, December 14 and 15, flushed huge amounts of plastic pollution out of the Bay and onto land. In some areas, such as along the ...

Plastic Pollution. Study: Styrofoam Might Last Only Decades, Not Millennia, in the Ocean Researchers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution say that sunlight can break down ...

New York is preparing for a statewide ban on the sale and distribution of polystyrene foam products for takeout food and other uses that begins Jan. 1. A public comment period ends Nov. 22.

The results showed clearly that Styrofoam® containers are by far the best option for the environment among single-use food containers. This is mainly due to their use of only 7.8g of raw ...

Plastic, long considered nonbiodegradable and one of the biggest contributors to global pollution, might have met its match: The small, brownish, ...

“All the plastic bags and Styrofoam which were first manufactured (in) the 1950’s still exists somewhere in the world, floating in our air, water, soil and our food chain,” Chittoor said.

UConnapalooza, sponsored by the University of Connecticut Residence Hall Association, occurred on April 22, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fairfield Way. The Earth Day Campus Clean Up sponsored by ...