The Dart Container Corporation, which makes foam products, is a manufacturing behemoth and produced a fortune for the family behind it. Environmentalists say its products are polluting the globe. Dart ...

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 ...

Expanded and extruded polystyrene foam has been used in a variety of applications for several decades, and for nearly as long recycling advocates have tried to explore methods to recycle the material.

A couple of blocks from the delicatessens, discount stores, and auto customization shops of working-class South Brooklyn, N.Y., stands an environmental wonder. The Sunset Park Materials Recycling ...