Styrofoam News

The Merced County Association of Governments issued holiday recycling tips from its recycling education specialist.

In the mid-1990s, a certain mail-order computer retailer announced that it was abandoning Styrofoam packing peanuts in its shipments and switching to environmentally friendly cornstarch peanuts instead.

On Saturday, at Leon Valley City Hall from 9 to 11 a.m., a workshop will be conducted by Halff and Associates, Architects and Planners, on the proposed overlay district plan that will reshape our commercial corridor along Bandera Road as well as the proposed Town Center areas at Poss & Grissom roads.

Ben Gibbard played with Jay Farrar at Webster Hall with John Roderick opening. "Along with all 12 songs from the album, Farrar and Gibbard each sang a song from a different project, before finishing with a pair of covers.

Toronto synth-punk trio Styrofoam Ones' fan base has grown steadily over the past couple of years thanks to their raucous live shows, and they've finally documented that energy in this debut EP.

The computer's outer case cracked open like an egg shell as its parts were divided among bins at Hughes Technologies in Brainerd.

Where does that coffee cup, disposable razor or unwanted television end up once it's tossed to the curb? Using an electronic tracking device about the size of a matchbook, MIT researchers are tagging about 3,000 pieces of Seattle trash to get people thinking about what they throw away and where it ends up.

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We've all witnessed free-flying trash on city streets or wondered what happens to our trash once it leaves our garbage bins.

Where does that coffee cup, disposable razor or unwanted television end up once it's tossed to the curb? Using an electronic tracking device about the size of a matchbook, MIT researchers are tagging about 3,000 pieces of Seattle trash to get people thinking about what they throw away and where it ends up.

Linda Baer of Aldergrove is one of the line staff at Genesis Recycling in Aldergrove who disassemble electronic products for recyclable parts.

Two years ago, the Capitol was full of trash - literally. The House of Representatives alone used to dispose of 240,000 meal remains each month, all served on plastic plates or in Styrofoam containers.

AJ John AJ Utah man fashions a cave into a mysterious Indiana Jones-style hideaway for his home theater.

Reporting from Phoenix -- After nearly 20 years on an impersonal commercial strip, the Cathedral of Christ the King moved to a quiet residential neighborhood in the northwestern edge of this metropolis.

Eco Factor: Recycled artwork made from used Styrofoam. We all are quite aware of the fact that just like plastic waste Styrofoam too is extremely harmful for the environment.

Used to be that if you wanted a green house, your choices were forest green, sage, mint julep or seafoam spray.

Nancy Dwyer wants your Styrofoam. But forget packing peanuts; we're talking about those stiff, molded shapes that come with electronic products and just about every other gizmo that supposedly needs protection during shipping.