Each piece starts with a flat wooden base and a core of hand-sculpted Styrofoam.
He said Styrofoam ballast kept the debris afloat as it crossed the open sea.
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He said his aim is to ban Styrofoam food packaging from stores and restaurants.
There was juice in Styrofoam cups and potato chips on little red plastic plates.
The Styrofoam ban needs council approval, and Speaker Christine Quinn, a close ally, said she is supportive.
One danger was that the club's sound insulation was made of styrofoam, which releases toxic fumes when burned.
Even the smarter books are often just magazine articles or journal contributions blown up to book length with Styrofoam peanuts.
His father founded the company in the 1960s, striking it rich with styrofoam containers for eggs and McDonald's Big Macs.
Turns out, the many burritos our students buy from the food carts outside our buildings mostly come in Styrofoam packaging.
Workers recently took in a shipment of 2, 000 small Styrofoam coolers, for storage of the body parts that workers are recovering.
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Piles and piles of plastic bottles, bags, Styrofoam, packaging material and other household trash can be seen as a permanent fixture.
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Yet in the Zona Rosa clubs, even the neatly dressed are clutching messy, massive Styrofoam cups that drip red chilli sauce from the rim.
Mr. Dell's notes, sent late the night he received the machine, included his thoughts on the Styrofoam used to package the computer.
As the sun rose over the bay, women carrying trays lined with hot-sauce covered Styrofoam plates of ceviche and seafood walked by.
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Imagine the headaches at Dow Chemical, whose business is turning hydrocarbons into products like Styrofoam and materials for everything from shampoo to electronics.
Although commonly referred to as Styrofoam, that brand of polystyrene foam isn't used in food packaging, according to its manufacturer, Dow Chemical Co.
It was only eleven-thirty, but there was a whole carp in brown sauce, chicken and beef dishes, and Styrofoam crates of freshly steamed rice.
The body was wrapped in a shroud and placed inside a wooden box with a Styrofoam lid that was itself inside a concrete vault.
What a transformation for a company remembered among investors for its very cyclical profits and among environmentalists for things like their least-favorite packaging material, Styrofoam.
What a transformation for a company that's remembered by investors for its very cyclical profits and by environmentalists for things like their least-favorite packaging material, Styrofoam.
Most of the homes are insulated with Perform Wall, a recycled mixture of concrete and Styrofoam that saves an estimated 7.2 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per home.
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Inside that shack, a Styrofoam plug closed Saddam's subterranean hideaway.
Will the transportation costs and emissions that the paper cups require to get here actually be more waste or harm to the environment than, say, using the Styrofoam cups?
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His father founded the company in the 1960s, striking it rich with styrofoam containers for eggs and McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) Big Macs.
Polystyrene foam, sometimes sold under the brand name Styrofoam, has long been popular among restaurateurs for lightweight, heat-retaining containers, but environmentalists complain it takes years to break down in trash.
First Sergeant DOBOS: The EFP's, with the Hezbollah, have really perfected, that's about what they look like when they camouflage them, because they use Styrofoam and then they'll paint 'em and everything else.
At the Johnson City, Tenn. distribution center, manager Kathleen Gage has switched from solid Styrofoam boxes for delivery of refrigerated vaccines (90 cents each) to cardboard lined with Styrofoam (30 cents).
The fourth-floor offices of technology incubator Ecompanies in Santa Monica, Calif. were decked out for Halloween with fake cobwebs, faux human limbs and a mini-graveyard of Styrofoam tombstones bearing executives' names.
The mayor who has taken on smoking, sugary drinks and salt is also expected to talk about working with the City Council to ban Styrofoam food packaging from stores and restaurants.
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