The Foodservice Packaging Institute’s Foam Recycling Coalition announced that its grant program is now open for 2026, offering a major opportunity to ...

Every year the world produces 14 million tons of—non-biodegradable—polystyrene foam. The general-purpose plastic is hard, brittle, and cheap. And it forms everything from packing peanuts to disposable ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polystyrene foam is still being sold in the state of California despite a ban that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. (Susanne Rust ...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam is a problematic material, in that it's cheap and lightweight but also non-biodegradable and difficult to recycle. German scientists have developed a possible ...

The foam market presents opportunities in construction for soundproofing and insulation, driven by a surge in global ...

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

The Los Angeles City Council has approved a new ban on certain single-use plastics, taking the latest step in an effort toward becoming a “zero-waste” city. All 12 council members present for ...

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 ...