At an event organized by the Department of Public Works, residents of Watertown will have the opportunity to shred paper and recycle mattresses, linens, and Styrofoam. On Saturday, November 16, 2024, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, the Jewish Community Day School, located at 57 Stanley Ave., will have a general recycling event. Regarding the recycling of styrofoam, there are relatively strict standards in this event. Only rigid styrofoam foam will be recycled in this event, and peanuts or take out containers are not allowed to be mixed in.

The announcement of this event did not mention how to further process the collected styrofoam waste. Simply collecting waste styrofoam would be meaningless. People are very curious about the subsequent treatment of styrofoam waste. What method should be used to recycle styrofoam?

At present, styrofoam recycling activities organized by communities have become commonplace, and subsequent processing methods are mainly divided into two types. One way is to place a recycling equipment at the recycling site, and the other way is to help with recycling in some factories, which will be equipped with recycling equipment that compresses styrofoam waste. A common cold pressing equipment in factories is the styrofoam compactor. GREENMAX styrofoam compactor mainly uses screw extrusion technology (cold pressing technology) to compress styrofoam. Currently, styrofoam compactor is mainly divided into two series: Apolo styrofoam compactor and Heracles hydraulic styrofoam compactor (supported by hydraulic technology). You can choose according to your own needs. The compression ratios of the two are 50:1 and 70:1 respectively.

Usually factories provide free recycling services. They transport the waste styrofoam collected by the community to their factories for free, and then use the styrofoam compactor in the factory to compress it. These compressed wastes can be reused, and some will be used by the factory. For utilization, the premise is that these factories have reuse systems. Some of these wastes will be mechanically compressed and sold to downstream buyers. In short, the current styrofoam recycling process is becoming more and more complete, and more and more residents are participating in recycling activities. The recycling rate of styrofoam waste in domestic waste will also increase year by year.