HILLIARD, Ohio — Planning to make some big purchases this Black Friday? Large items come packed in a lot of material, especially a type that is bulky and can be tough to recycle. For Styrofoam, ...

RIDGEFIELD PARK — If you've ever felt guilty about throwing packaging foam in the trash instead of finding a way to recycle it, Bergen County has found a solution. Ridgefield Park and the county have ...

Reader question: Is Outagamie County planning to do more to recycle Styrofoam? It bought a foam densifier, but it’s certainly not worth one’s time and gas to drive Styrofoam to the machine. Can ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Hundreds of thousands of expanded polystyrene foam products, more commonly known as Styrofoam, are manufactured each year in the U.S. It's used to make takeout containers, disposable ...

As garbage removal costs continue to skyrocket, Passaic County is trying to think outside the box to further reduce the waste that is hauled off to landfills in trucks. The latest idea is to remove ...

The village is putting its foam to good use as the first Bergen County municipality to buy an expanded polystyrene densifier. Officials said the machine has already compressed more than 7,000 pounds ...

The only other county in the state to recycle polystyrene, Washington County, also contracts out its recycling to a private company, which sorts the recyclables and sells the materials on the scrap ...

MANKATO — Earth Day in Mankato will offer a unique opportunity to recycle a vexing waste product that typically spends a few days in the trash cart before spending a few hundred years in the landfill ...

In 2019, almost 7,000 tons of expanded polystyrene – commonly referred to by its acronym, EPS, or the trademarked name of one of its products, Styrofoam – went into the Franklin County Sanitary ...