The "Polystyrene Industry Outlook to 2030 - Capacity and Capital Expenditure Forecasts with Details of All Active and Planned Plants" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The growth in global polystyrene production capacity from 2025 to 2030 presents significant market opportunities in packaging, construction insulation, and consumer goods. Key areas for development ...

Bordeaux and Marseille chemists have succeeded in transforming two of the most widely used but also most difficult plastics ...

A ban on sales of styrofoam products used in food service was supposed to have taken effect Jan. 1, but California hasn’t taken steps to enforce it. CalRecycle, the state agency tasked with ...

Polystyrene comes in pleasing shapes but where does it end up? (Picture: Getty) Plastics waste is now a waking environmental nightmare that no world leader can afford to ignore. The insane excess of ...

Researchers show that polystyrene, one of the world's most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades or centuries when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously thought. A ...

Australian businesses are hurrying to meet a deadline to phase out many types of single-use plastics. The federal government wants to phase out plastics that end up in landfill, including expanded ...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS), commonly known as styrofoam, doesn't degrade or break down over time. Styrofoam is recyclable, but it is only accepted by a very small number of recycling facilities. The ...

Scientists assessed changes in the gut microbiome of superworms (Zophobas morio) in a new study. The University of Queensland Researchers in Australia have identified enzymes in the gut of certain ...

Polystyrene foam bodyboards aren't the only common beach-day items banned in Hawaii in order to protect its environment. In 2018, the Aloha State made history as the first U.S. state to enact a law ...