As more and more residents shop online and with it a lot of polystyrene packaging, Montclair has decided to host its first polystyrene recycling in June and July 2021. Residents can drop off clean, white Styrofoam at the recycling center at 219 N. Fullerton Ave. Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. This recycling only accepts waste packaging with the number 6, and members of the Environmental Committee will strictly inspect the waste before placing it in the recycling point to precisely combat polystyrene pollution.

“People are getting a lot of polystyrene with their packaged deliveries, which winds up getting incinerated with our regular trash. That’s bad for the environment,” Lyle Landon of the Montclair Environmental Commission said. Burning polystyrene will release unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide and black carbon into the air. This is very detrimental to human health, so polystyrene must be properly recycled. Currently, the use of polystyrene densifier is one of the solutions to solve polystyrene pollution.

Regarding the recycling of polystyrene, most people agree that residents, the government, and the industry should work together to help recycle white pollution. It is not enough to rely on the efforts of one party. Montclair and GREENMAX agree on this point. 

Except for the delivery of materials to an Industry in Union County to solve, the program is at no cost to the township. Landon said. Although community volunteers organize recycling activities and some factories help to recycle polystyrene for free, transportation costs are always unavoidable. GREENMAX polystyrene densifier uses hot-melt technology to achieve a very high compression ratio, compressing polystyrene to one-ninetieth of the original volume, so that the amount of polystyrene contained in a unit area is greatly increased, saving a lot of transportation cost.

The economic benefits that GREENMAX brings to you are far more than these, the Montclair area wants to use this pilot to observe the effect of recycling and plan for the recycling business in the next few years, with a polystyrene densifier, you can use the money saved to continue expanding polystyrene recycling business in the surrounding areas, while GREENMAX repurchases compressed polystyrene, helping to achieve a complete economic closed loop.