Jeffrey McNaught, owner of Edgewater Surf, hopes to reduce the amount of expanded polystyrene foam that ends up in landfills each year by converting it into a reusable construction material ... and ...

The global foam insulation market is poised for substantial growth, driven by rising demand for thermal insulation across residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. In 2024, the market is ...

McNaught is also collecting extruded polystyrene foam, typically used for architectural insulation ... glue them up into a stack and then shape a board from that." The boards start in a "rough ...

Readers are backing our call to end the scourge of cheap, throwaway, polystyrene bodyboards through our Ban the Boards campaign launched this week. More than 16,000 cheap bodyboards are estimated to ...

And so today we at CornwallLive are launching our campaign to Ban the Boards. We want to see the eradication of cheap, throwaway bodyboards made of polystyrene that stays with us long, long after ...

The other issue is insulation levels. Two inches of rigid foam has an R value of ... for occasional stays, 2” of extruded polystyrene foam will probably do fine. But if you’ll be heating ...

In reaction to booming demand from the building insulation market, the BASF group (D-67056 Ludwigshafen; www.basf.de) plans to build a new 100,000 cbm/y plant for extruded polystyrene rigid foam ...

And on Jan. 1, that recycling target hadn't been met and is therefore banned. (Recycling rates for expanded polystyrene range around 1% nationally). Neither CalRecycle nor Newsom's office has ...

A ban on sales of styrofoam products used in food service was supposed to have taken effect Jan. 1, but California hasn’t taken steps to enforce it. CalRecycle, the state agency tasked with ...

successfully used an insulation board based on expandable polystyrene (EPS) containing recycled material. The thermal insulation composite manufacturer Sto, BASF as a producer of polystyrene-based raw ...

Pros: Foam board, aka rigid ... extruded polystyrene (XPS), which is particularly moisture-resistant; and expanded polystyrene (EPS), which is often the cheapest. Cons: Foam board insulation ...

These include foams blown with CFCs such as: extruded polystyrene packaging & insulation board rigid polyurethane foam products moulded polyurethane foam foam insulation in refrigeration and ...