How Styrofoam Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

All those to-go cups and food containers aren’t actually Styrofoam but those cups and Styrofoam are both forms of foam polystyrene, one of the rare materials that isn’t biodegradable. Which is a problem, because we make – and throw away – so much of it.

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1:05.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:14.6	Okay. A production of IHeart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
1:16.4	I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too,
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