Expanded
polystyrene foam products, including foodware, easily break into small pieces that litter the beach.
WASHINGTON (January 8, 2015)- Today New York City decided to ban
some polystyrene foam products and consequently will not include polystyrene foam in the city's curbside recycling program.
Not exact matches
A possible solution to continuing to allow the use of
foam products in New York City could have been to create a recycling program for
polystyrene (ESP) waste and to educate people on it.
Packing materials made from wood
foam would provide a long - term alternative to yet another oil - based
product: expanded
polystyrene.
Another big issue for some people is how to avoid using petrochemical
products like spray polyurethane
foam, extruded
polystyrene foam, and other plastics.
You can identify
polystyrene and expanded
polystyrene foam by the number «6» on the bottom of a
product.
Food Service Waste and Packaging Reduction Ordinance - extended (2016) Amends the existing ordinance to prohibit the sale of food service ware and other specified
products including packing materials made from
polystyrene foam or are non-recyclable and non-compostable.
The graph shows that ccSPF is priced comparable to the rigid board
foam plastic
products (extruded
polystyrene and polyisocyanurate), which are both substantially more expensive than cavity fill fibrous insulation such as fiberglass or cellulose.