According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, shopping packaging accounts for more than a quarter of all U.S. municipal solid waste and consumes significant resources, including fossil fuels. What we can do is to carefully check whether we have discarded packaging materials that could have been recycled in the wrong location before discarding household waste, causing these renewable materials to miss an opportunity to be recycled. Open packaging that contains multiple materials (for example, taking out the foam shell from a cardboard box). Even if they are plastic packaging, they are renewable resources that can be recycled. Most of the foam packaging is what we often refer to as EPS foam waste. , the bottom of the package will usually be marked with the number 6.

If you really want to correctly deal with the EPS waste generated in your life, what should you do? In fact, this is not a simple question. Each region has different recycling methods and recycling policies.

First of all, you need to collect the waste EPS produced in your life separately, take off the labels and tapes on them, otherwise it will affect the subsequent recycling, and put these waste EPS in bags. In some areas, there are specialized public welfare organizations that provide door-to-door recycling, which will bring you great convenience. However, some areas do not yet provide door-to-door collection services, so you can pay attention to when nearby recycling activities will be held, so that you can transport the waste to the designated location for recycling. Another situation is that some brands will recycle the packaging produced by their own brands, so that you can take waste EPS with you when you go shopping next time and discard it in the garbage basket in front of the store. In summary, you need to understand the collection policies in your area.

After the collection is completed, some communities have specialized compression equipment, such as EPS compactor, while some communities are not equipped with corresponding recycling facilities. If such communities want to recycle EPS, they usually cooperate with relevant factories and use The factory's EPS compactor realizes waste compression. These compressed waste EPS will be donated to the factory for free for remanufacturing and used as valuable recycled materials.

EPS compactor usually squeezes out the air in waste through screw extrusion, which is a relatively energy-saving compression method. The compression ratio can generally reach 50:1, which is also a necessary step for recycling waste EPS.