Polystyrene—common in packing peanuts and box inserts—is manufactured from fossil fuels. To develop a sustainable alternative, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials tested an unconventional starting material: sawdust. Their prototype foams incorporated cellulose binders and oth...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-sawdust-cellulose-binders-beeswax-combine.html)