Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and their partners from Clemson University have discovered a green, low-energy process to break down polystyrene, a type of plastic that ...

Engineers have modeled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable. The chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging ...

Ottawa, July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global polystyrene market volume was valued at 40.09 million tons in 2024 and is projected to hit around 62.33 million tons by 2034, growing at a compound ...

Researchers report a visible-light photocatalytic system that converts polystyrene into high-purity benzoic acid at room temperature and ambient pressure, with a carbon nitride catalyst that becomes ...

Dublin, Feb. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Polystyrene (PS) World, Regions and Countries Market Analysis 2019-2024 and Outlook to 2034" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

In conversations about plastics and sustainability, one question consistently rises to the surface: can this material truly be part of a circular economy? For polystyrene, found in everything from ...

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Polystyrene comes in pleasing shapes but where does it end up? (Picture: Getty) Plastics waste is now a waking environmental nightmare that no world leader can afford to ignore. The insane excess of ...

Researchers show that polystyrene, one of the world's most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades or centuries when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously thought. A ...