Lott Industries in Ohio provides community residents with convenient expanded polystyrene recycling options by installing a GREENMAX polystyrene densifier.

The nonprofit’s foam recycling efforts are supported by the community and keep a large amount of polystyrene waste out of the Toledo landfill. Additionally, Lott Industries serves people with barriers to employment through its polystyrene recycling program. The organization has been collecting and recycling used polystyrene foam since 2022.

Community residents can send their accumulated foam packaging to the processing center. There, clean foam packaging waste will be crushed and melted, and quickly cooled in the air. GREENMAX polystyrene densifier solves the problem of expanded polystyrene waste volume reduction through crushing, hot melting and extrusion molding, effectively improving transportation and storage efficiency.

As the most popular foam recycling machine, the polystyrene melting machine uses high-performance heaters and high-precision thermocouples to accurately control the heating temperature, making the entire foam recycling process stable and efficient.

When the GREENMAX polystyrene densifier is working, the cutting blades in the crushing bin will break large pieces of foam waste materials into uniform pieces. The polystyrene fragments will be pushed into the heating bin by the high-speed rotating screw to make it reach a hot melt state. The screw in the machine is mainly used to transport and heat the material, so that the foam ingots are evenly melted and extruded into the discharge bin.

The value of the hot melting ingots produced by the polystyrene melting machine is much higher than that of polystyrene waste. Foam ingots can be recycled into PS particles and a variety of environmentally friendly products, forming a closed loop of foam recycling. Major plastic particle manufacturers will compete to buy polystyrene ingots with good quality and high density. The high market popularity is also one of the reasons for the promotion of foam recycling. The high return rate has attracted more companies to join the polystyrene recycling industry.

Many companies have been working hard to obtain professional polystyrene densifiers to promote recycling. GREENMAX has been engaged in the polystyrene recycling industry for more than ten years and has established in-depth cooperative relations with more than 1,000 companies around the world. GREENMAX's various types of foam recycling equipment support EPS compression ratios up to 1/50 or 1/90 to achieve the best volume reduction effect.