With the holiday season in full swing, gifts of all shapes and sizes are being shipped around the world. But all that packaging generates lots of waste, including cardboard boxes and plastic-based ...

Non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, petroleum-based EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam packaging is not eco-friendly stuff. There could soon be a greener and snazzier-looking alternative, however, in the ...

As You Sow has withdrawn a shareholder proposal with Target Corp. that asks the company to phase out use of polystyrene foam packaging in its e-commerce operations, as a result of the company’s ...

ACH Technologies in Kansas City, Kansas, recycles foam packaging material. "This can be reprocessed back into packaging material, surfboards picture frames - those sorts of thing," said Bob Ladewig, ...

Stora Enso has teamed up with German company Novapor for a pilot project using Papira, a cellulose-based foam packaging material. The initiative seeks to replace traditional foams with a wood ...

Thirty-one percent of McDonald’s Corp. shareholders supported a proposal from Oakland, California-based nonprofit organization As You Sow asking the company to phase out expanded polystyrene (EPS) ...

ALBANY - New York's ban on expanded polystyrene foam containers begins Saturday. The material, often marketed as Styrofoam, is used in food packaging but is a major contributor to environmental litter ...