The idea of upcycling plastic waste into even more valuable products is a meritorious one, but some forms of the material lend themselves to this process better than others. Polystyrene lays at the ...

Agilyx Corp.’s “most innovative” facility in Tigard, Oregon, was initially built to convert hard-to-recycle plastics into synthetic crude oil. At one time, Agilyx generated about one million gallons ...

A trio of companies from different nations has announced a partnership designed to recycle polystyrene packaging collected in consumer curbside and drop-off recycling systems and from sources such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why can’t you recycle polystyrene foam coffee cups, egg cartons and takeout containers? The little recycle symbol on those items —which you probably think of as Styrofoam — might lead you to believe ...

Recycling is typically thought of as a good thing. Except when the product you're dealing with is polystyrene -- considered environmentally taboo because its chemical makeup means it takes centuries ...

In March, the Agilyx chemical recycling facility in Tigard, the Portland-area’s only public drop-off for Styrofoam recycling, abruptly closed. But the following month, Green Century Recycling in ...