Recently in Tucson, Arizona, a shocking piece of bad news came out. At the end of October 2022, the Alvernon-Tucson recycling center closed. Originally, the city of Tucson had thirteen recycling centers, but the bins were overdamped, with a mix of recyclable and non-recyclable waste. So soon the trash cans are full. Also, sometimes people leave their rubbish at the recycling point, which also damages the image of the city. The problem of illegal dumping has been exacerbated by chronic illegal dumping and the inability of many people to distinguish between "seemingly unrecyclable household waste that is actually recyclable". As a result, there are only four recycling centers left in Arizona and Tucson.



People living in the area say they are worried and disturbed by the situation. First, they have been used to throwing their household garbage in fixed places. Secondly, some people said they had been following the recycling regulations since they started using the recycling center. Because some people's uncivilized illegal dumping affects their legal rights and interests, which is not very fair. In fact, if you carefully understand the content of people's domestic waste, it is easy to find that polystyrene accounts for a high proportion. Because polystyrene is often used in a variety of packaging and containers, whether people buy food or drinks, fruit, and some online shopping products. And polystyrene has also become the "added value" of commodities. Most people choose to throw it away with the rest of their household waste, but polystyrene is actually recyclable.



According to research, polystyrene can even take up 40 to 60 percent of a city's landfills. Polystyrene squeezes out space for other household waste, that's for sure. But polystyrene is known to be a lightweight foam, so if you reduce it and recycle it properly, there is plenty of room in landfills for other household waste to rot and ferment. ″It’s an unfortunate thing, we need to be able to recycle so that we’re not filling up the landfills with all this stuff.” This is what the resident had said.



If residents in TUCSON, Ariz. recycle some waste such as polystyrene, there will leave more recycling room for other waste. And it’s necessary to know that polystyrene is recyclable, however, still some residents don’t know about this. Once polystyrene is separated and recycled from the waste stream, there will be less pollution to the environment. And recycled polystyrene will be processed into other plastic products. INTCO Recycling is able to provide the most comprehensive polystyrene recycling solution. Contact us right now.