Giant, white blocks can be seen by drivers on Highway 101 near Fairview Avenue in Goleta, and the polystyrene segments will be used to support a new highway offramp being built in the area. The ...

The Waste Center at the Forest Grove Farmers Market will be collecting polystyrene blocks through the rest of the market season. (The Waste Center at the Forest Grove Farmers Market) Do you have some ...

Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups? Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative ...

Polystyrene, the main material in plastic tableware and insulating materials, is a widely used polymer but is currently difficult to recycle. Reporting in the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of US ...

In the second-largest application ever of its kind, hundreds of truckloads of polystyrene block are helping expedite an expansion of Salt Lake City’s Transit Express (TRAX) light-rail system. The ...

A couple are saving £100,000 by building their own house, but they’re using an unconventional material to do it. Hannah Bird and her husband Charlie, both 26, purchased a quarter-acre plot of land in ...