Styrofoam
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- For the music band of the same name see Styrofoam (artist).
Styrofoam is a trademark name for extruded polystyrene thermal insulation material, manufactured by Dow Chemical Company. It is usually blue in color (according to the Dow website). Styrofoam can be recycled and easily identified if it is properly labeled with the resin identification code symbol for polystyrene, it may otherwise take between 1 and 100 years to decompose.
The word styrofoam is often used by the general public as a generic term to indicate any brand of polystyrene foam.
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[edit] Trivia
The city of Berkeley, California was one of the first cities in the world to ban polystyrene food packaging (called Styrofoam in the media announcements)[1][2].
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- List of generic and genericized trademarks
- Polystyrene
- Structural insulated panel
- Resin identification code
