You can recycle Styrofoam in some places.
However not every place will accept Styrofoam for recycling.
You can recycle Styrofoam yourself into packing material such as by cutting up the Styrofoam and use it for packing around breakable and fragile items to ship or move with.
I did this myself when I was moving.
I cut up Styrofoam cups and Styrofoam containers that were clean enough and then placed the cut up Styrofoam into boxes of plates and other breakable items I was moving with.
This saved me money on having to by Styrofoam packing peanuts.
Expanded polystyrene (EPS), commonly known as styrofoam, doesn't degrade or break down over time. Styrofoam is recyclable, but it is only accepted by a very small number of recycling facilities. T
he best solution for recycling styrofoam is to reduce usage.
Go to Earth911.com, type in "polystyrene" and your zip code, and it will tell you where your closest drop-off site is.
The Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers (AFPR) has a list of centers that will accept your excess EPS via mail.
Styrofoam is a trademark named for a chemical compound called polystyrene.
Polystyrene is a petroleum-based plastic made from styrene monomers.
It is a light-weight material, about 95% air with very good insulation properties.