In Seattle, King County recycling manager Jeff Gaisford had expressed that about 5,000 tons of EPS foam ended up in the Cedar Hills Regional Landfill during the whole year 2019. For a city's waste EPS foam production, 5,000 tons is such a huge number. In terms of weight, that's the equivalent of about 40 entire mountain bikes. Once in landfills, EPS foam degrades extremely slowly and can pollute groundwater.



Knowing the harm of EPS foam landfill, why do they choose to do so? The problem is that Seattle can't deal with that much EPS foam. After communicating with local organizations, enterprises, and recyclers, a reporter learned the difficulties for them to recycle EPS foam. First, although the government will recycle EPS foam, the service is in short supply. If people choose to send it to Styro Recycle, it will take up a lot of space and money in storage and transportation.



In the past, Seattle did not obtain the information properly related to EPS foam recycling, so it will be considered that EPS foam has no stable long-term recycling demand. In fact, EPS Foam recycling has been globalized. To sum up, now the best way for the government and manufacturers is to purchase the appropriate EPS densifier to recycle EPS foam. With a EPS densifier, like GREENMAX EPS MARS series, adopt hot melting technology, The small Styrofoam pieces cut by the crusher will be turned into a soft pliable material that can be densified into a denser form at a ratio of 90:1. This directly solves the problem of EPS foam occupying too much space. Besides, the ingots can be sold to recyclers like INTCO Recycling, which solves the problem of spending a lot of money to landfill EPS foam, and on the contrary, it will turn waste into funds. Except for EPS foam densifier, INTCO Recycling also provides EPS Foam Recycling whole-industry chain solutions such as purchasing EPS foam and ingots or selling EPS foam densifiers and compactors.



Seattle has always been troubled by too many tons of EPS foam end up in the landfill instead of recycling by EPS densifier every year. However, with GREENMAX EPS foam Densifier, Seattle can solve the problem of EPS foam recycling and it's also in line with Seattle’s goal of sustainable development.