To offer businesses a chance to adjust to the ban, legislators included a phase-out period. For food vendors with 20 or more ...

The Rotary Club of Austin-Southwest organizes a monthly Styrofoam cleaning event aimed at reducing waste and reusing the material. Hosted the first Saturday of every month, the club collects, cleans ...

HUDSON, Fla. — Floridians face a potential health hazard because of Styrofoam in their water, according to Pasco County environmental engineer Marc Rhodes. Rhodes says it is his new year’s resolution ...

Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee. 2018 is the year of the plastic and styrofoam bans.

New list includes styrene as possibly linked to cancer. June 10, 2011— -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services added eight more substances to its "known human carcinogen" or ...

I hate Styrofoam so much that it is almost a personality trait. Even before I knew the sinister plastic foam’s real name, it haunted me as a child. The painfully synthetic texture of a foam cup made ...

Despite being banned by some states and cities because of the potential for harming the environment, Styrofoam manufacturing increased slightly in the United States in 2022. According to ...

I continue to avoid buying Styrofoam, but I don’t really know why. In middle school, I remember being told not to chew on Styrofoam cups because the action of breaking the Styrofoam would deplete the ...