Foam and plastic waste will take several centuries to decompose. This speed is far away from that of people's produce and use. According to Science Advances, 8300 million metric tonnes of plastic and foam have been produced. Among them, 12% burnt, 79% remained in the landfills, only 7% recycled. Now People have taken foam recycling seriously and invented technical recycling machines to deal with waste foam. And foam compactor is the optimal choice that can provide high-efficiency recovery and wide-range adaptability for foam recycling.



The awareness of foam recycling has been embedded in people’s brains so that more and more enterprises and organizations have initiated foam recycling, even some universities. It’s time for students to return to college around the US, some schools like Michigan State University have provided services for students to drop off their foam and plastic for recycling. Based on the official website of MSU, the college call upon students to throw their foam packaging, plastic bottles into the recycling stations called Pack Up or the traditional recycling bins set up inside buildings. And then the Items stored in the recycling bins of the MSU and public recycling centers will be purchased to the on-site material recycling facility (MRF) of the Surplus Storage and Recycling Center (SSRC) for sorting, packaging, and shipping.



So, how do they deal with recycling? When those collected materials, including waste foam, are transformed to MRF, the employees classify and feed the sorted foam into foam compactors. The compacted blocks will be sold as commodities to those recyclers for reprocessing as new foam products. The whole process realizes a circulation of waste foam. As you can imagine that, without a foam compactor, it’s hard to transform waste foam to other places due to its lightweight but big volume. So, foam compactor is definitely crucial to foam recycling.



The reasons why foam compactor is widely used are obvious. Take GREENMAX foam compactor as an example: After long-term research in technology and constant improvement, GREENMAX has found a way to solve the foam recycling problem of most of the materials in the market. While ensuring the density, the anti-melting device has been developed, it is currently at the leading level in the world. And different from the foam densifier, the foam compactor can conserve energy and reserve the material properties and structure. In the future, foam compactors will be used more widely in the foam recycling industry.