Polystyrene foam bodyboards aren't the only common beach-day items banned in Hawaii in order to protect its environment. In ...

The law takes effect in one year to give businesses time to transition to environmentally-friendly alternatives.

Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami signed a bill into law Wednesday banning the sale, rental or distribution of disposable plastic ...

On December 2, 2025, the California Attorney General (AG) issued an enforcement advisory reminding producers of expanded polystyrene foam food ...

California, the most populous U.S. state and fifth-largest world economy, will effectively ban the use of most expanded plastic foam food containers on January 1, a move conservationists called a ...

Initial theories for the fire’s cause are focusing on the use of highly flammable polystyrene foam sheet to protect windows ...

New York City Council has banned the foam food containers Washington%2C D.C.%2C mayor is proposing a ban Environmentalists have been waging a decades-long campaign Polystyrene foam – commonly, but not ...

San Francisco county supervisors recently adopted the nation’s strictest ban on polystyrene foam, prohibiting its use in takeout containers and shipping materials and barring the sale of foam retail ...

The ban goes into effect Jan. 1. Beginning then, no food service provider, manufacturer or store covered by the ban will be ...

After three years of doling out more than $400,000, the Foam Recycling Coalition (FRC), Falls Church, Virginia, advances its foam recycling grant program with a revamped website dedicated to foam ...

There's an old joke that if you were reincarnated, you might want to come back as a polystyrene foam cup. Why? Because they last forever. Ba-dum-bum. Despite being made 95 percent of air, polystyrene ...

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 ...