Hello, Des Plaines! We are so grateful for this year of growth. Thank you for reading this column and for your hard work to conserve our air, water and soil.

Whether your favorite restaurant hasn't switched to more eco-friendly takeout containers or your partner has a yen for fast food that serves drinks in Styrofoam cups, it's nearly impossible to ...

I hate Styrofoam so much that it is almost a personality trait. Even before I knew the sinister plastic foam’s real name, it haunted me as a child. The painfully synthetic texture of a foam cup made ...

Following the town’s successful first-time collection of expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) for recycling last month, the solid ...

This is as true for insulation board as it is for the ubiquitous expanded polystyrene kind of foam used for everything from coffee cups to packaging material. Those stick-type hot wire cutters ...

Town Meeting banned the use of expanded polystyrene foam (EPS), commonly known as Styrofoam, in Falmouth back in 2018. That ...

This is not too surpising, since petroleum is often used to make the styrofoam in the first place. According to Kong, quoted in New Scientist, the polystyrene cups dissolved quickly in biodiesel ...