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 International ...

As new laws restrict the use of polystyrene, the industry is pushing back and trying to rehabilitate the material’s image.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Hannah Bird/ SWNS (Hannah Bird/ SWNS) A money-saving couple from Somerset are building their own house on a budget - using ...

The project proves the feasibility of post-consumer waste becoming a valuable feedstock, thus creating a circular economy for polystyrene. The project also included a commercial and an ecological ...

Engineers have modeled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. Engineers have modelled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could ...

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 ...

A couple are saving more than £100k by building their own house – using polystyrene blocks instead of bricks. Hannah Bird and her husband, Charlie, a professional golfer, both 26, bought the 0.25 acre ...