It is bad enough that polystyrene is made up of the chemicals listed in the chart above, primarily from petrochemicals, but the HBCD is classified under the EU's REACH program as as a chemical of ...

Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups? Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative ...

Kajiado, Kenya - Justus Opiyo lives in one of around 50 polystyrene houses in a new development in Kajiado County, southeast of Nairobi, and says it has a major advantage over his previous homes. “Its ...

KAJIADO, Kenya, May 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Justus Opiyo lives in one of around 50 polystyrene houses in a new development in Kajiado County, southeast of Nairobi, and says it has a major ...

Dow Chemical Co. will build a new manufacturing plant for its Styrofoam brand of extruded polystyrene insulation in Burley, Idaho. Construction of a 60,000-square-foot facility that incorporates the ...

MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dow Global Technologies LLC (DGTL), a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), today announced the invention and development of a new, high molecular weight ...

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, a team of US ...

Justus Opiyo lives in one of around 50 polystyrene houses in a new development in Kajiado County, southeast of Nairobi, and says it has a major advantage over his previous homes. “Its temperature ...