How about bagel with sesame seeds? Christmas tree covered in snow? Starry sky? That should get you through another few years. But seriously now: I’m afraid those piles of excess foam still represent a ...

Your Amazon boxes come filled with thin foam packing sheets. Wondering what to do with them all? Keep them from the trash by reusing them in your garden.

PORTLAND, Ore. — It won't be long before reams of torn wrapping paper and a potential blizzard of Styrofoam packing peanuts finds its way to your house during the holidays. Then comes the hard part: ...

Styrofoam remains a ubiquitous material for takeout containers, disposable coffee cups, and protective cushioning for fragile items during shipping. The material—called expanded polystyrene or ...

Each year, more than 20 million tons of polystyrene, or Styrofoam, accumulate on earth. It’s on your take-out container, food packaging, and shipping packing that cushions your latest online purchase.

Those bits that come inside your packages are called peanuts, but of course they are made from polystyrene, not anything natural. But what if we could send things packaged in popcorn—the actual food, ...