Starting May 13, the City of Calgary will collect Styrofoam plastic packaging as part of a six-month pilot project. Residents can drop off packages at a collection center at no additional cost. Municipal project manager Elias Tomaras recalled that the styrofoam material was not included in the municipal recycling program. This means tons of these materials are buried in landfills every year. About 1% of the material that ends up in landfill is styrofoam packaging, he said. A local company, Styro-Go Canada, won the bid to transport the materials after they were collected. According to Elias Tomaras, the company will melt the packaging and pour it into molds to produce small hand-sized styrofoam bricks, which will then be sold to other companies.

Due to its special form, Styrofoam is the preferred packaging for long-distance transportation of almost all items, but precisely because of this, expanded styrofoam is difficult to recycle. How can styrofoam be compressed into small hand-sized bricks? The styrofoam densifier designed and manufactured by GREENMAX can specifically solve this problem. The styrofoam densifier uses hot melt technology to specifically help solve the transportation and storage problems of large-volume styrofoam.The compression ratio of GREENMAX styrofoam densifier can currently reach 90:1. This equipment is very popular in North America and Canada, and its usage is higher than that of equipment supported by cold pressing technology. The important reason is that the styrofoam densifier is not only extremely simple to operate, It also ensures that the compression ratio of the produced compressed material is very high, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

Elias Tomaras said that during this recycling event, there should be no tape or labels on styrofoam. This is somewhat similar to GREENMAX’s requirements. During the recycling process, GREENMAX also specially emphasized that guests need to clear the tape on the styrofoam packaging first. , only then can subsequent compression activities be carried out. Mr Tomaras said people wishing to take part in the pilot project could return polystyrene to one of the city's three collection centers and then proceed to a sorting area. There, the materials will be placed into bags in shipping containers. These manufacturers turn them into new products, such as padding for bicycle helmets and child car seats. GREENMAX has the same idea. While we provide styrofoam densifier, we also recycle waste for manufacturing. We are mainly engaged in the manufacturing and sales of frames such as photo frames. Do you now know more about the compression process of styrofoam? If you have any questions, please feel free to contact GREENMAX.