Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups? Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative ...

There’s a 1,400-square-foot home on Juniper Place in Cortez that is being built with expanded polystyrene foam blocks. “It reminded me of a giant YETI cooler,” said Rachael Marchbanks, Cortez’s ...

Houstonians have for years been able to recycle most of the packaging from the products they buy — plastic, cardboard, paper — and a host of other materials. Now they can add polystyrene foam to the ...

Microwaving styrofoam, or EPS, can break the container and cause chemicals to leech out faster. Use microwave-safe glass ...

DANBURY — It’s made of packing foam — the same material used in coolers and take-out containers — and it’s snapped together like Legos. And an increasing number of builders are using it instead of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X About 115,000 polystyrene foam cups and carry-out containers washed down Baltimore’s Jones Falls ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — As the forklift lurched toward a nearby truck, its prongs began to slide between two foam blocks loaded on the trailer. An unmistakable squeak followed, like Styrofoam being jammed ...

It appears Republicans and Democrats may have found something to agree on – foam-based docks don’t belong in New York’s waterways. Earlier this year, state Sen. Mark Walczyk, R-Watertown, introduced S ...

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