Germany is known for its cutting-edge policies on green issues, and its drive towards a clean economy. One of its latest eco-breakthroughs comes from the University of Freiburg's Biofoambark project.

Styrofoam cups, plates, takeout containers, and coolers fill landfills around the world—the expanded polystyrene is impossible to recycle, and takes centuries to break down naturally. It’s such an ...

HOLLYWOOD (CBS) — It's a tree that keeps on growing but the kids at Thomas Starr King Middle School don't have to water it. They've begun making a tree out of Styrofoam...made up from cafeteria trays ...

(Nanowerk News) Maybe soon we can say goodbye to polystyrene, the petroleum-based material that is used to make Styrofoam. In what looks like an ordinary bicycle helmet, Swedish designers have ...