Tom Hitter in his letter "Styrofoam is recyclable, good for the environment," Feb. 2, twice tells how Styrofoam is recyclable. Though he mentions a national company that does recycle it, he fails to ...

Thanks to the Albany County legislators led by Chris Higgins, D-Albany, for proposing an expansion of the law banning polystyrene (better known as Styrofoam) containers. The comment in the article ...

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 ...

The unsustainable amount of single- use plastics that Americans use every day terrifies me: 150 million tons of plastic produced each year are used only once, and the problem continues to worsen.