Styrofoam cups are made of beads from a type of plastic called polystyrene, and the beads are puffed up with air.During descents into the ocean, the accumulated weight of water increases and ...

Virginia’s ban on Styrofoam is set to take effect July 1, four years after legislators approved its phase-out, with the ...

Students at the Park School in Brookline love their Dunkin’ Donuts. They’re less enamored of the cups Dunkin’ uses for its hot beverages. Members of the school’s Styrofoam Club delivered a ...

Cup Noodles, an instant ramen brand, will get new packaging in early 2024: Paper cups will replace the current Styrofoam cups and their plastic wrap will be eliminated, Nissin Foods, the makers of ...

But even if the deep-sea pressure on a cup is the same all over its surface, the cup's tiny bubbles of plastic aren't all the same size; if they were, all squashed cups would look exactly the same ...