Can polystyrene really be recycled? A Reddit user shared a photo of a recycling bin they found at Publix, a grocery chain with more than 1,300 stores in the US. Unlike most other recycling bins for recycling cardboard, cans, this one is dedicated to recycling polystyrene. Being able to help dispose of bubble wrap and containers would greatly reduce the load on landfills. Americans reportedly throw away 25 billion Styrofoam cups every year, not to mention other forms of non-biodegradable materials. As of 2018, the EPA claimed that American citizens generated more than 80,000 tons of Styrofoam waste in all its forms. However, with the development of polystyrene recycling technology in recent years, recycling polystyrene is no longer a difficult thing

We can usually notice that just a few pieces of expanded polystyrene can fill up a very large recycling bin, formally because the main component of this material is actually air, even accounting for 97% of it, so recycled expanded polystyrene The most critical step in ethylene is to squeeze out the air and compress it. In the compression process, polystyrene compactor is usually used, and the air in it is extruded by the principle of screw extrusion. Generally, the compression ratio of 50:1 can be achieved by cold pressing technology, although this compression method is not as good as the compression ratio of hot melt machine It is so high, but it is more energy-saving. The entire working process of the industrial polystyrene compactor only needs electric energy, and does not need the step of converting electric energy into heat energy, except for the heat generated by friction during the working process of the machine itself.

The polystyrene compactor is a key step in the entire polystyrene recycling system. The blocs compressed by the polystyrene compactor can be smoothly used in the subsequent polystyrene recycling system, playing the role of valuable recycled materials, and New materials are mixed and put into production. Intco GREENMAX supports this polystyrene recycling system. We purchase dense blocs to help related industries completely solve the problem of white garbage.