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In this age of renewed environmental awareness, few things are as frustrating as receiving a package and being left with a pile of foam packaging. Beyond creating more plastic waste, styrofoam is also ...

Lack of a key raw material is leading Pregis Corp. to close a plastic sheet foam plant in Kentucky in a move that will eliminate 79 jobs. The plant in Wurtland, Ky., makes Microfoam-brand PP sheet ...

Non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, petroleum-based EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam packaging is not eco-friendly stuff. There could soon be a greener and snazzier-looking alternative, however, in the ...

Foam Fabricators Inc, which is backed by Compass Diversified, has made an investment in Springfield, Tennessee-based Rational Packaging, a provider of recyclable, paperboard-based structural packaging ...

The ACT Government will consider a ban on polystyrene foam packaging such as single-use cups and food containers. New York City has announced it will ban the packaging from the middle of the year, ...

Maryland is expected to become the first U.S. state to ban foam food packaging, takeout containers and cups—and the latest in a growing worldwide effort to ban various disposable single-use plastic ...