Polystyrene is made from styrene building blocks and is the most widely used plastic in terms of volume, for example in packaging. Unlike PET, which can now be produced and recycled using ...

Now, researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and research institute Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, are collaborating with four companies - BASF, GreenICT, Synbra and DSM -on ...

A decade ago, if someone asked, “What is the worst business in the chemical industry?,” styrenics would have been a fantastic answer. Styrene and polystyrene perennially lost money for chemical makers ...