Styrofoam News

 
Staying Afloat: Online video inspires friends to build rafts entirely from ...
Rome News Tribune
Friends Ben McCrickard, left, and Josh Comer toss discarded styrofoam, milk jugs and water bottles into a pile that will eventually become Ben's recycle raft. Josh Comer's raft is already under construction. He stuffed a hollowed out box spring with as ...


 
Sun-Sentinel
Local company breaks the Styrofoam mold
Sun-Sentinel
Unique Rabbit, the company owned by Fort Lauderdale resident John Belcher, makes Styrofoam moldings. Some are enormous and carry a message, like an 18-foot-wide road sign welcoming visitors to Deerfield Beach. Others are smaller but still practical, ...


 
ENERGY: The latest in green construction: Recycled Styrofoam walls
North County Times (blog)
New houses in the future may be able to get ahead of the game using sturdy insulation, and homebuilders looking to take their greenness up a notch could consider Perform Wall, an insulating panel made mostly from old Styrofoam. "We liked Perform Wall ...


 
Kennedy: Korea was the original cold war
Chattanooga Times Free Press
He sipped coffee from a Styrofoam cup and fiddled with the radio while I checked email on my iPhone. After a few minutes, we began to make small talk about the weather. On this particular morning, a thundershower seemed to be missing his house and ...


 
2012 Ditch Day at Caltech
Pasadena Star-News
Over the years, rooms have been filled with sand, Styrofoam, a disassembled-and-reassembled car, and a functioning cement mixer, among many other items; and furniture has been glued to ceilings, moved into courtyards, and suspended from trees.

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State clears Leeward Oahu beach of Styrofoam
KITV Honolulu
Carroll Cox of EnviroWatch uses a heavy-duty vacuum to suck small pieces of Styrofoam off Feedlot Beach at Campbell Industrial Park. The Styrofoam was attached to floating concrete marine docks that washed ashore. Carroll Cox of EnviroWatch uses a ...
Crews clean up Styrofoam from Barber's PointKHON2

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That To-Go Box Has Environmental, Health and Economic Risks, Says Coastkeeper
Patch.com
An expert panel discussion will shed light on the impacts of Styrofoam™ in food packaging. Editor's Note: The following news release is from San Diego Coastkeeper. On May 31, San Diego Coastkeeper invites residents to learn from experts about human ...