Lyndonville, a small village in the town of Lyndon, in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States has installed a polystyrene densifier for recycling. This means that waste polystyrene foam is allowed to be recycled since last Saturday. The Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District (NKWMD) aims to provide environmentally-sound waste sound waste management services to 49 member towns. And they have made a 6-month pilot project at Lyndonville. So NKWMD helped Lyndonville purchase a polystyrene recycling machine.



As plastic that is one of the most plentiful, yet least recycled, polystyrene needs to be paid more attention to. Plastic recycling is an important part of waste management. However, polystyrene has not been attached enough importance. Whether as food containers or packaging, polystyrene is practical. Even in the construction industry, polystyrene also has played a necessary role. However, the amount of recycled polystyrene is not so satisfying.



According to statistics, in 2018, Americans threw away roughly 292 million tons of trash. Of this number, only around 69 million tons were recycled. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of trash, plastic, and marine debris. That’s twice the size of Texas and three times the size of France! Most of the plastic debris found in ocean patches like this are microplastics, and microfoams, which are small pieces of plastic broken down from polystyrene boxes, and packaging… These shocking figures have arisen some people’s attention to polystyrene.



After decades of development, polystyrene recycling has moved away from the previous complex forms and immature machine systems. As a pioneer in the polystyrene recycling industry, INTCO can assure our customers that our GREENMAX polystyrene recycling machine is fully capable of reassuring customers about polystyrene recycling. In addition, we provide after-sales service throughout the whole process, and ingots compressed by customers can also be bought back as raw materials for our reproduction. The whole process of polystyrene regeneration is also why INTCO is trusted by so many customers.



In the US or Canada, to combat this polystyrene waste problem from getting bigger and affecting their local communities or factories’ environment, more and more governments or companies start polystyrene recycling through polystyrene recycling machines. Time will prove it’s true and meaningful.