The ban goes into effect Jan. 1. Beginning then, no food service provider, manufacturer or store covered by the ban will be ...

According to an early-August report from Environment+Energy Leader, the Illinois General Assembly has passed Senate Bill 1531 ...

In fact, people in San Francisco won't be able to buy polystyrene foam coolers, kiddie pool toys or packing peanuts after supervisors approved a measure in June that goes far beyond the ...

Three years ago, New York City banned single-use food containers and packing peanuts made out of polystyrene foam. Some suburban counties like Westchester and Nassau soon followed. Now, the rest ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego took a key step this week toward reviving its ban on polystyrene foam food containers and similar products, which environmentalists blame for poisoning marine life and ...

New York City Council has banned the foam food containers Washington%2C D.C.%2C mayor is proposing a ban Environmentalists have been waging a decades-long campaign Polystyrene foam – commonly ...

About 115,000 polystyrene foam cups and carry-out containers washed down Baltimore’s Jones Falls last year — but that’s only an estimate, because so many of them are reduced to fr… ...

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 ...

Dublin, Feb. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Polystyrene foam Market by Product, and End-use Industry: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2030" report has been added to ...

The environmental concerns surrounding polystyrene foam were the driving force behind the law. The resolution referenced the material's poor biodegradability, carcinogenic properties and toxicity ...

Foam products are approximately 90% air by volume, and a 48-foot truckload of loose polystyrene foam weighs only around 16,000 pounds, according to Hosni.

The environmental and economic costs have prompted 100 California cities and counties to ban food vendors and retailers from handing out polystyrene foam.