RICHMOND, Va. — From vermicelli bowls to crispy chicken, Pho Luca’s, a Vietnamese-owned Richmond restaurant, uses plastic foam containers to package takeout meals. That may soon change after the ...

HELENA, Mont. — As Friday’s transmittal deadline looms in Helena, legislators are working furiously to advance general bills out of their respective chambers before it’s too late. In the House, the ...

This year, on International Coastal Cleanup Day last Saturday, volunteers around the world participated in the annual event by collecting and recording trash, cleaning up local beaches and producing ...

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 ...

California is beginning to enforce its ban on foodware made from expanded polystyrene, commonly known as plastic foam or Styrofoam. A law passed in 2022 required producers of plastic foam foodware to ...

Many of us are familiar with coffee cups and to-go containers made from plastic foam — known casually, albeit incorrectly, as Styrofoam. The common foam we think of when we hear "Styrofoam" is ...

Orange City Fire engineer Norm Glastetter mops up remnants of a four-alarm fire that destroyed a foam manufacturing company on 2000 block of Batavia Street and spread to neighboring business in Orange ...

Order and disorder of bubbles in a surface foam. Image by Kempf EK - Own work, CC BY 4.0. Order and disorder of bubbles in a surface foam. Image by Kempf EK - Own work, CC BY 4.0. By using ‘green ...

Researchers have developed a method to turn biodegradable plastic knives, spoons, and forks into a foam that can be used as insulation in walls or in flotation devices. The investigators placed the ...