Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups? Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative ...

It is bad enough that polystyrene is made up of the chemicals listed in the chart above, primarily from petrochemicals, but the HBCD is classified under the EU's REACH program as as a chemical of ...

A couple are saving more than £100,000 by constructing their own house - using polystyrene blocks instead of bricks. Hannah Bird and her husband, Charlie, a professional golfer, both 26, purchased the ...

A money-saving couple from Somerset are building their own house on a budget - using polystyrene blocks instead of bricks. Hannah Bird and husband Charlie, a professional golfer, bought the 0.25 acre ...

A couple are saving £100,000 by building their own house, but they’re using an unconventional material to do it. Hannah Bird and her husband Charlie, both 26, purchased a quarter-acre plot of land in ...