Currently, the plastic recycling rate in Canada is less than 10%, and the national plastic packaging production is approximately 1.89 million tons in 2019. However, the reality of plastic recycling in Canada is about to change.

The plastic recycler Polystyvert has invested CA$ 40 million (EUR 27.6 million) in building a full-scale polystyrene recycling plant near Montreal, Canada. When the facility is put into operation, about 9000 tons post-consumer and post-industrial polystyrene scraps will be recycled every year, which can boost the plastic recycling in Canada.

Polystyrene is one of the most advanced plastics suitable for recycling. Foam is popular in many markets due to its low cost, shock-absorbing, moisture-proof and other properties, but most people mistakenly use it as a disposable material. After recycling, discarded polystyrene can be given a second life and returned to people's daily lives, such as environmentally friendly frames, furniture and other recycled products. polystyrene also has extremely high value in the recycling market. The recycling of polystyrene not only has environmental benefits, but also brings economic benefits. Polystyvert will now process the equivalent of 15 per cent of the total polystyrene landfilled in Quebec each year, boosting the business of polystyrene recycling in Canada.

So, how should polystyrene recycling be achieved? INTCO Recycling can provide customers with a customized total set of foam recycling solutions and GREENMAX recycling machines, which can keep up with almost all types of polystyrene. GREENMAX foam compactor adopts a double-knife crushing spiral knife structure to ensure that when the foam enters the feeding bin, it can be crushed evenly for subsequent compression. When the fragments fall into the silo at the bottom, they will be continuously rotated and compressed by the screw, so that the foam will eventually form a tight foam ingot. Under normal circumstances, the compressed density can reach 200-400kg/m3. At the same time, the machine has developed an anti-melting device and auxiliary functions such as transmission and cutting to improve the automation of production and help customers save costs.

In addition, INTCO Recycling also provides customers with foam repurchase and after-sales support services. For compressed foam ingots, we will provide customers with preferential prices to purchase them for manufacturing various environmentally friendly frames, such as picture frames, mirror frames, etc. From waste foam materials to polystyrene recycled products, INTCO has realized a circular economy model for polystyrene recycling.