This legislative session, Maryland state Sen. Cheryl Kagan and Del. Brooke Lierman are introducing a ban on polystyrene foam foodservice products, including the trademarked Styrofoam versions, and ...

We’d like to defend a commentary by Richard Bruno of Johns Hopkins in support a bill prohibiting polystyrene (aka Styrofoam) for use in food containers that has been introduced in Annapolis ...

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 retail ...

California, the most populous U.S. state and fifth-largest world economy, will effectively ban the use of most expanded plastic foam food containers on January 1, a move conservationists called a ...

The ban goes into effect Jan. 1. Beginning then, no food service provider, manufacturer or store covered by the ban will be allowed to sell any foam coolers, ice chests or other containers designed ...

After three years of doling out more than $400,000, the Foam Recycling Coalition (FRC), Falls Church, Virginia, advances its foam recycling grant program with a revamped website dedicated to foam ...

Every year the world produces 14 million tons of—non-biodegradable—polystyrene foam. The general-purpose plastic is hard, brittle, and cheap. And it forms everything from packing peanuts to disposable ...

The bill would ban food providers and permittees at County of Hawaiʻi facilities from using disposable polystyrene or plastic ...

I was disappointed to learn that the Westford Town Meeting has voted to ban a very useful product, polystyrene foam food containers. The ban was enacted because it was alleged that trace amounts of ...

WAILUKU — The Maui County Council on Thursday evening unanimously passed a bill to ban the sale and use of polystyrene foam containers — a staple of takeout food eateries — throughout Maui County. The ...

Business owners put the bite on a plan to ban polystyrene foam cups and food containers, filing suit Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court. A coalition including the Restaurant Action Alliance and Dart ...