The Sept. 21 "He said she said" feature does a good job of drawing attention to an issue that affects all members of the Blacksburg community (and, really, all residents of planet Earth): the use of ...

Styrofoam is not only killing our environment, but it’s killing people as well. We all know that styrofoam is bad for the environment, but it is also very harmful to our bodies. The U.S. Environmental ...

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Americans throw away 76 million tons of containers and packaging annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This includes 25 billion polystyrene (Styrofoam) coffee cups. The Earth ...

These people helped hold the letters high during at least one game this season. Most are KU students, but some are family members, old and young, of other members of the group: Sky Kurlbaum, Nicole ...

Need a few moments to get some work done, make an important phone call or unload the dishwasher? One word: foam. Whether you call it craft foam, foam stickers or smart foam, this ingenious product ...

Canada should ban styrofoam items. Did you know that people throw away about 25 billion styrofoam cups a year? Styrofoam cannot decompose. If you put styrofoam items in a trash can, the garbage truck ...

A letter regarding styrofoam recycling was positive and a nice change from the usual negative comments. Those of us who may not have the room to collect or the ability to travel to the landfill to ...

Expanding the ban on Styrofoam containers as considered by the Albany County Legislature is bad for business, health, quality of life and bad for the environment. Two recent letters ("Styrofoam ban ...

It is amazing that a Central New York city such as Oswego begins to take up sustainable alternatives to Styrofoam in order to aid the positive future for the environment (“A CNY city leads the way as ...

Our waterways are under threat from harmful plastic pollution. Americans throw away an estimated 70 million plastic foam cups each year, and about one-third end up in our rivers, lakes, and oceans.