Expanded Polystyrene (EPS); the plastic we love to hate. It’s been around for so long it’s hard to imagine what life would be like without it. Let’s face it, as plastics go, EPS is very conspicuous — large white pieces limitless in shape and size, not to mention the loose fill “peanuts” that seem to migrate everywhere. It’s obnoxiously voluminous. At the same time it troubles us to know that the containers we use to ship our temperature-sensitive healthcare products (as well as use to protect many of the consumer goods we purchase — everything from televisions to double lattes), is ultimately destined to lie in a landfill somewhere for centuries to come. It’s another inconvenient truth of 21st century life; one of those things we know we should do without but which we will never be prepared to relinquish. But in many respects, EPS has been unfairly vilified...

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