To learn more about changes in the industry demand and discover if compostable coffee cups are truly a good solution, we interviewed Raegan Kelly, Sustainability Lead and Founding Member of Better for ...

The term "Styrofoam" is actually the brand name of a rigid blue insulation that the Dow Chemical Company makes, not the ...

Polystyrene foam sales have been declining, and the company has been broadening its offerings to include more paper products, including coffee cups sold at Starbucks and Dunkin’. It is also ...

Hong Kong residents dispose of 400 million takeaway coffee cups every year ... ban the sale and restaurant use of disposable expanded polystyrene tableware. Restaurants would also be prohibited ...

Any Styrofoam cup can protect your pipes during ... According to Kelley, when you first pour a hot cup of coffee, the insulation keeps it from burning your hands. Those properties also work ...

This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...