Last month, a girl named Ingraham of Belding, Michigan conducted a Styrofoam recycling event at New Hope Church of God for local area individuals to drop off undesirable Styrofoam items. Due to the good propaganda by her and her friends, most community inhabitants came to participate in the event, and even those of other communities came to the public.

 

When it comes to Styrofoam recycling, Ingraham clearly remembers her first interaction with Styrofoam. "I'm very angry because my parents want to throw away a Styrofoam breadstick," says Ingraham, from Belding. “They say they can't recycle it because there's nowhere to go.” 
In this young girl's mind, the seeds of foam recycling were buried. In the six years when she became a member of the Girl Scouts Troop 4304 in Belding, she has been trying to figure out how to solve this problem. 
Fortunately, last year the Girl Scouts Troop gave her a chance. A silver award was set up, requiring members to put in 50 hours of work to complete a community action project and submit a report. Ingraham did not hesitate, chose to host the Styrofoam recycling project. From last year to May this year, she has been preparing for the work. She devoted herself and research to learn more about Styrofoam recycling and its benefits to the community. 

 

"The reusing cost of Styrofoam is high, so there is practically no reusing focus in our space," Ingraham clarified. “The vast majority of them must be discarded. Styrofoam takes 500 to 1 million years to disintegrate, so when individuals discard it, it will just remain in a landfill for quite a while.”

On May 15th of this year, her Styrofoam recycling activities were first held. Ingraham gave the residents who came to the activity a recycling manual for each of the instructions, and collected the Styrofoam into a transparent bag and transported it to a recycling center in Sherlock where there is a Styrofoam densifier that transfers the waste into compressed ingots at a ratio of 1:90. The event was held successfully, and she won the Silver Award.

 

Her project is still in progress, and the next Styrofoam recycling date is July 10th. Ingraham hopes that more people will understand the impact of Styrofoam waste on the environment and help them turn to other alternatives. Thank the girl for her efforts in Styrofoam recycling!