Americans throw away 76 million tons of containers and packaging annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This includes 25 billion polystyrene (Styrofoam) coffee cups. The Earth ...

Canada should ban styrofoam items. Did you know that people throw away about 25 billion styrofoam cups a year? Styrofoam cannot decompose. If you put styrofoam items in a trash can, the garbage truck ...

Styrofoam is not only killing our environment, but it’s killing people as well. We all know that styrofoam is bad for the environment, but it is also very harmful to our bodies. The U.S. Environmental ...

A letter regarding styrofoam recycling was positive and a nice change from the usual negative comments. Those of us who may not have the room to collect or the ability to travel to the landfill to ...

Expanding the ban on Styrofoam containers as considered by the Albany County Legislature is bad for business, health, quality of life and bad for the environment. Two recent letters ("Styrofoam ban ...

Congratulations to all the townspeople to contributed their Styrofoam to the collection that was held last Saturday in conjunction with Household Hazardous Waste Day. Their efforts on a very cold, ...

Earlier this month, the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate passed legislation to ban polystyrene foam - aka Styrofoam - making Maryland the first state to take such a prestigious stand against ...

It’s easy to save Styrofoam cups, carryout containers and packing materials as heirlooms for our great-great-great-great-...grandchildren. We simply need to write a message on them and put them in the ...

It is amazing that a Central New York city such as Oswego begins to take up sustainable alternatives to Styrofoam in order to aid the positive future for the environment (“A CNY city leads the way as ...