Australians consume about 3.4 million tonnes of plastics a year, according to figures from the Environment ... Australia imports about 52,000 tonnes of polystyrene resin every year, to make ...

The 3.5 meter (11.5-feet)-tall gray, polystyrene figures depict detainees who were tortured and humiliated to force them to become communists. Several thousand prisoners who had fallen afoul of ...

A POLYSTYRENE figure of Motorhead singer Lemmy is about to go on public display in Olympic cultural celebrations of Welsh icons. The “warts and all” bust will be exhibited inside Adair Avion ...

Enzymes produced by gut bacteria in larvae of the beetle Zophobas morio can digest polystyrene. The enzymes could be adapted to degrade plastic in recycling plants. A previous study had found that ...

Guoliang Liu at Virginia Tech and his colleagues have developed a method to break down polystyrene and convert it into a chemical that is far more valuable. The process is energy efficient and ...