Every Wednesday, Real Good Fish ships boxes of seafood from its headquarters in Monterey Bay, Calif., to customers nationwide. However, tuna, black cod, and other seafood are no longer shipped in Styrofoam boxes. Instead, the seafood is packaged in boxes made of chitin, which is created by Cruz Foam, aiming to divert seafood industry waste from landfills and provide a sustainable alternative to Styrofoam.

But actually, the GREENMAX machine provided by INTCO Recycling can prevent Styrofoam fish boxes from entering landfills and recycle non-degradable Styrofoam as a new recycled product.

The seafood industry consumes countless Styrofoam boxes every year, which are perfect insulators, durable, and cheap. But because they can't be reused, they often end up in landfills, which is wasteful and not environmentally friendly. But compacted Styrofoam blocks are actually an ideal material for home construction, framing, and more. They have a huge value in the recycling market, with recycled Styrofoam commanding higher prices than cardboard and other popular recycled commodities. However, seafood merchants often don't realize the value of this material. Hence, when they pay Waste Management to haul away these discarded foam fish boxes, they are effectively giving up their own profits. 

INTCO Recycling has helped many seafood companies in coastal countries recycle foam fish boxes, turning this waste into a source of income for these companies. By using its GREENMAX machines, the recycling process will be simple, efficient, and cost-saving.

Visco Visgroothandel is a company located on the Dutch island of URK that specializes in supplying fresh fish and processing it into ready-to-use products for the kitchen. INTCO helped the company solve their headache of foam recycling. For a long time, they have accumulated a large number of Styrofoam fish boxes, which not only cost high disposal fees, but VISCO also faced the situation where recyclers did not come to deal with the foam fish boxes in time. The large volume of discarded fish boxes had an impact on the 5S on-site and seriously affected the efficient operation of their business. After in-depth market research and discussion, Visco decided to cooperate with INTCO. The customer was very satisfied with our solution and signed the first GREENMAX Styrofoam APOLO series compactor, which is a machine specially designed for the recycling of water-containing foam fish boxes. This machine has no odor during operation and is very energy efficient. Because the material is cold pressed, the internal physical properties of Styrofoam will not be broken, and the material properties are well preserved.

As for the processed foam compression blocks, INTCO provides a buy-back service to purchase these foam ingots at a very favorable price, which can be used to make various frames, such as picture frames. The total solution provided by INTCO can, on the one hand, improve the operational efficiency of enterprises and help enterprises establish a good public image. On the other hand, INTCO provides a good Styrofoam recycling solution, turning foam waste into treasure through compaction, granulation, and reproduction.

As an expert in the field of Styrofoam recycling, INTCO hopes to work with more companies to promote the global foam recycling industry.