Styrofoam known as Expanded polystyrene foam (Styrofoam) is a lightweight cellular plastic material.Styrofoam is 98% air, which makes the item bulky and hard to dispose directly. Styrofoam is hard to be recycled directly from the recycling bin. When thrown in the garbage bin it ends up taking up precious space. When going to landfill it is very harmful to the environment and costs much land resources.

EPS Industry Alliance reported that in 2022, about 168.6 million pounds of EPS packaging were diverted from disposal in North America, up from 136.8 million pounds in 2019. This includes 61 million pounds from post-consumer sources, suggesting a 31% recycling rate for this segment. 

Styrofoam like home appliance packaging or fish boxes or clean food containers are all valuable for recycling. One important first step of Styrofoam recycling is to reduce the foam volume. INTCO Recycling provides a solution to Styrofoam recycling and buys back waste Styrofoam ingots.

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Styrofoam Recycling Steps:

1. Clean up the non-recyclable plastic items in the Styrofoam packaging.

2. Throw the loose Styrofoam into the hopper of Styrofoam recycling machine.

3. Foam recycling machine will smash the loose Styrofoam into small pieces and store the pieces temporarily.

4. Compressing or melting system will compress or melt the pieces into small volume blocks or ingots at the ratio of 50:1 and 90:1.

Styrofoam Packaging, Styrofoam containers, and Styrofoam boxes are all recyclable. The Styrofoam solutions mentioned above both have low energy assumptions. And the compressed or melted Styrofoam materials are convenient for storage and transportation, which also help save many unnecessary costs.

Styrofoam blocks and ingots are valuable materials for granulating polystyrene pellets. INTCO Recycling not only supply solutions to Styrofoam recycling, but also purchase back all the recycled Styrofoam with good price to reuse and to make their own plastic frame products. And the pellets can also be used to make XPS insulation boards.

Styrofoam recycling solutions deserve to be promoted because it’s necessary for people to take actions to protect the environment and save the world’s resources and at the same time make their own profits.

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