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On 2/20/2025 10:50 PM, Tahitian pearl wrote:
> Ed P wrote:
>> On 2/20/2025 7:03 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>>> On 2025-02-20, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My last 45 working years was in the expandable polystyrene business.
>>>> Packaging, insulation, building products. I liked the varied industries
>>>> of our customers.
>>>
>>>
>>> You made Styrofoam! So far, I haven't given any "greenies" your current
>>> location. You owe me.
>>>
>>> OTOH, I spent seven years destroying the ozone layer with CFCs. We're
>>> even.
>>>
>>> Lucky for you!
>>>
>> Expandable polystyrene (EPS) is often called Styrofoam but it is not. 
>> No CFCs and it is 100% recyclable. We took in all the used product we 
>> could get.
>>
>> Some of our biggest products were ICFs, Insulated Concrete Forms.
>> One of our customers  https://integraspec.com/
>>
>> Styrofoam is a trademark for extruded polystyrene.
> 
> You'll have to stop by and see what this stuff is.  It's blue and while 
> you can see the cells of a styrofoam cup, this is 'homogenized?'
> 
> I admit I was speaking loosely when I said 'styrofoam.'  My mother makes 
> fun of me for speaking loosely.


Blue is Dow Styrofoam
Yellow is Georgia Pacific
Pink is Owens Corning.

Cups and most packaging is molded expanded beads of polystyrene. 
Chemically, the same base styrene material in a different form.