expanded polystyrene

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The company's EcoCradle product is a direct replacement for the expanded polystyrene used in the multibillion-dollar protective packaging market.
該公司的EcoGradle産品可以直接替代目前使用的有數(shù)十億美元市場的聚苯乙烯防護(hù)包裝材料。
EcoCradle provides the same physical and thermal protection as expanded polystyrene but is 100 percent compostable and requires only one-eighth of the energy to create.
EcoCradle具有聚苯乙烯一樣的物理和隔熱功能，但是它卻能100%分解堆肥，生産的能耗也僅是聚苯乙烯的1/8。
To meet that goal they had to replace their current packaging method that used 50 different components (including 32 carton sizes and a mountain of expanded polystyrene).
爲(wèi)了達(dá)到這個目標(biāo)，這家公司改變了現(xiàn)有需要50多種包裝材料的包裝方法（32種紙箱和一系列發(fā)泡聚苯乙烯。

EPS—expanded polystyrene—is a newer material that involves a more benign manufacturing process.
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The researchers report in Biomacromolecules that their new material matches the stiffness, strength and compressibility of expanded polystyrene, a common packaging material that is the bane of many a rubbish dump.
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a light plastic that contains gas and is used for wrapping things in before putting them in boxes