The annual Halloween has come to an end, and despite the usual novelty and fun, this year in Aliso Viejo, California, there was a special design. A moon rises over the pirate ship on the front lawn of local residents Mike and Dawn Stanley on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. This pirate ship is perfect for Halloween, but it has one of its most distinctive features -- it's mainly made from recycled EPS foam.



This pirate ship is made by the local Stanley family who is big fans of Halloween and every year they come up with a different Halloween theme in front of their lawn. Last year they had made the Haunted Mansion. This year, adopting the suggestion of their neighbors, they decided to build a pirate ship. Different from the past years, the Stanley used to use wood as a building material until they discovered EPS foam this year. It is a material that suited them perfectly: lightweight, lacquerable, waterproof, and flexible. After consultation and communication, Mike Stanley and Oceanside Recycling Center reached an agreement, and Oceanside expressed its willingness to provide as much material as possible for this project, especially waste EPS foam.



The resulting pirate ship turned out so well that it won praise from the entire community and the photos went viral on the Internet. But who would have thought that EPS foam, which is used as express packaging and anti-collision in daily life, would have such magical use after recycling? As a plastic material with a variety of excellent properties, one of the most widely used EPS foam is as a packaging material, which can protect articles from breaking and reduce the weight of goods in transportation. Especially in today's fast-paced society, EPS foam is widely used in the express delivery industry, food packaging industry, and so on. At the same time, a large number of EPS foam are discarded in trash cans or even roadside after being used once. This is an extreme waste of resources. In fact, EPS foam can be 100% recycled. For example, the pirate ship mentioned above is the reuse of waste EPS foam. But the most usual one is to recycle by professional recycling company of center.



Wanting to recycle EPS foam, the first step is to compress it into high-density blocks or ingots. And the quality of compacted EPS foam relies on the recycling machine. For example, the GREENMAX EPS foam compactor can compress waste EPS foam into blocks at the ratio of 50:1. This step reduces the volume of EPS, which is convenient for transportation and granulation in the subsequent recovery process. This means the compacted blocks then can be sold back to the producer of GREENMAX—INTCO Recycling, which is an EPS recycling specialist. Or the companies who have bought GREENMAX EPS compactor can pellet by themselves. INTCO Recycling provides first-class machines and first-class after-sales service, which can solve the problems you meet in EPS foam to the greatest extent. As you can know that the application of waste EPS foam is not limitable but wide. This path of recycling is what people have always been determined to go on, and it must be the right path.