Foam has played too many roles in our lives. However, in recent decades, controversy over foam is on the rise. Should we ban foam products? If the ban is not a good solution, then how do we treat foam waste in the most reasonable way? Let’s have a detailed analysis.



Firstly, there are the two hottest disputes about foam waste.
Producing foam needs too much petroleum resource, which is non-renewable and is also rapidly being depleted. There is a shortage of global petroleum resources, and the application range of foam products is becoming wider and wider, and people's demand for foam products is also increasing. Used foam products are usually discarded as disposable products, and then people continue to produce foam products. This is undoubtedly a great waste of resources.
What’s more, everyone knows that waste foam has a bad impact on the environment. Although foam waste accounts for a possible 1% of the landfill, considering its volume, actually foam takes up much space of landfill. Foam is also easy to be blown away to pollute water because of its lightweight. Incineration will also produce poisonous gas, pollute the air.



In general, these previous methods not only cannot solve the existing problems but will continue to bring more environmental problems. But if adopted the way of recycling and process waste foam, these will be settled easily. This is I will introduce the following.



Recycling data in recent years prove that recycling and processing foam can solve the above problems. In the United States, foam recycling recovered more than 113 million pounds in 2018. Canada recovered approximately 14.8 million pounds of foam, which is the highest recovery volume in Canada to date. In 2021, the recycling rate has kept raising!
Foam recycling has also brought obvious benefits to us. For example, in the United Kingdom, there are some good examples of recycling, which promote a circular economy by transferring waste foam from incineration. The process can also preserve the valuable resource. After being used, waste foam can be cleaned and reprocessed into totally new products. And many enterprises agree with this way of dealing with waste foam. INTCO Recycling is one of the biggest foam recyclers in the world. INTCO can provides GREENMAX foam recycling machines to those customers who want to settle their waste foam. By the way, INTCO also purchases compressed ingots and pellets to process and produce regenerated products. The professional equipment and comprehensive service are the reasons why so many enterprises choose INTCO Recycling as a cooperative partner.



Besides, conducting foam recycling also creates more job opportunities because the whole foam recycling and processing industry chain is huge. In addition, public opinion surveys consistently show that many people are working hard to protect the climate and the environment. Households have sorted and recycled 45% of waste, including foam waste.
It can be speculated that foam recycling is cost-effective, profitable, and environmental. To reduce negative environmental impact and preserve our valuable resources, foam recycling and processing must be the best manner.