Earth Festival is nearly to come. To celebrate this day, many cities or counties plan to organize some recycling activities. Because the target of recycling, reducing, and reusing is one of the key parts of Earth Festival. And now more and more people are conscious of the importance of recycling. The motivation behind why recycling is so significant is that it forestalls contamination, lessens the need to gather new resources, saves energy, diminish ozone harming substance discharges, sets aside cash, decreases how much waste that winds up in landfills, and permits items to be utilized to their fullest degree.



In response to the call of Earth Festival, a series of recycling activities have been launched in many cities in the United States, including Otsego County. The Drop-Off recycling event will take place this Saturday afternoon. Why organize such a recycling event with such fanfare? In fact, due to different local policies, many wastes that should be recycled do not enter the recycling system, such as cork stoppers, empty toothpaste tubes, and polystyrene waste, especially polystyrene. Polystyrene is actually a popular recycling material, but many places still don't recycle it. Why?



Some people have an inherent prejudice against polystyrene that it is disposable and cannot be recycled. Most polystyrene products end up in one place: a landfill. But polystyrene contains 98% air, which makes it light and cushioning. When it comes to recycling, the advantages become disadvantages. The expanding volume makes collection and transportation difficult. Even though people know that polystyrene can be recycled, there are a lot of obstacles to recycling polystyrene. But some companies and recycling centers have taken the lead in recycling polystyrene. How do they do it?



In order to recycle polystyrene, the most important thing to solve is the volume problem of polystyrene. Polystyrene compactor is arguably the best polystyrene recycling machine. Only one polystyrene compactor is needed, and the polystyrene waste will be cut into uniform small pieces, and then compressed into blocks by the extrusion device. The volume of compressed blocks is a few tenths of the original size. The density of blocks is higher than before, so they are not as easily blown away by the wind as polystyrene. Whether transporting to recycling centers or processing plants, it saves cost and space. Compressed blocks are usually sold to recyclers to make various plastic products such as photo frames.



Although Otsego County only holds a polystyrene recycling event this time, local officials send the collected polystyrene to a special polystyrene recycling center. That's a big step up from earlier refusal to recycle polystyrene. As Earth Festival calls for, each of us is responsible for the earth's environment, so we should all make efforts to recycle polystyrene, which not only reduces carbon emissions, but also saves resources and promotes a circular economy. INTCO Recycling is a polystyrene recycling specialist. Every year, INTCO reuses 100,000 tons of waste polystyrene which diminishes 300,000 tons of carbon emission. INTCO Recycling is also looking forward to getting more people involved in polystyrene recycling.