#polystyrene

[altrbody]

Fabio Viale, marble sculpture.

[possible-streetwear]

POLYSTYRENE (X-RAY SPEX)

[punkrockhistory]

🖤 In memory of the one and only Marianne Joan Elliott-Said aka Poly Styrene, frontwoman of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex, born on this day in 1957, Bromley, United Kingdom 🖤

Photo by Ian Dickson

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Sawdust-Based Foam Could Offer a Sustainable Alternative to Polystyrene

Waste swept off a sawmill floor, plant-based binders, and beeswax create foams with potential for sustainable packaging and building materials.

Newswise — Polystyrene — common in packing peanuts and box inserts — is manufactured from fossil fuels. To develop a sustainable alternative, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials tested an unconventional starting material: sawdust. Their prototype foams incorporated cellulose binders and other additives to form rigid or flexible materials, and some versions matched polystyrene’s strength and impact resistance. A simple beeswax coating made them water-resistant, producing biobased foams with potential for packaging and building materials.  “It can be exciting to use waste products as a starting point for materials fabrication, rather than a chemical catalog,” says Todd Emrick, the corresponding author of the study. He adds that the first author of the paper, Isha Farook, drove to nearby farms and sawmills asking if the research team could have their sawdust waste. Both researchers were pleased and surprised that, once it was dried, this waste sawdust created well-performing foams. 

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[wachinyeya]

The world's fifth-largest economy is about to ban most polystyrene foam

Rules taking effect in California ban cups, clamshells and other food ware made from expanded polystyrene foam unless companies meet a high

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Recycled Renaissance !

Dutch artist Suzanne Jongmans uses non-recyclable industrial materials, such as polystyrene and bubble wrap to produce incredibly artistic costume designs that resemble garments from the Renaissance period.

[stone-cold-groove]

Is this really the age of plastics? Ad for Dow Plastics - 1944.

[lazzcroft]

Blud thinks he's important enough to be assassinated