The only public Styrofoam recycling drop-off in the Portland area, the Agilyx chemical recycling facility in Tigard, abruptly closed in March. However, Northwest Portland's Green Century Recycling filled the void the following month. For a fee, the business has provided a customer drop-off location where customers can leave off polystyrene foam, also known by the brand name Styrofoam.

There are many recycling companies like this. GREENMAX is a company that can provide various styrofoam recycling machines. It is affiliated to INTCO Recycling. The parent company is a professional recycling company that recycles waste foam from all over the world, and the subsidiary is a machinery manufacturing company that provides various styrofoam recycling machines, including a variety of recycling equipment, including crushing equipment, compression equipment, cleaning equipment and granulation equipment. If you want to recycle styrofoam waste, you must choose a suitable recycling equipment. The cold densification method used by Green Century is distinct. The business compresses polystyrene foam at a 90:1 ratio using a hydraulic press. According to Regis, "what goes in a big, light piece of Styrofoam comes out as a very compressed, heavy brick."

The compression ratio of the styrofoam melting machine launched by GREENMAX can also reach 90:1. However, unlike the equipment technology of Green Century, the styrofoam melting machine does not use hydraulic technology, but uses the hot melt technology we are familiar with, mainly for the purpose of simplicity and convenience. From the name of the equipment, we can also see that this equipment uses the heating and melting method to compress.Packaging shipped into Oregon may contain polystyrene foam, and food containers are a small percentage of what Green Century recycles. The biggest culprit is medical coolers, Regis said, which make up about 20% of the polystyrene foam they receive.

Regardless of the source of styrofoam waste, we should use appropriate equipment to recycle it. If you have any needs, please contact GREENMAX.