UNCW Recycling wins 2024 Carolina Recycling Association (CRA) Award for expanding foam recycling program.The recycling coordinator, Amelia Woodruff, said, "We are thrilled to have received a 2024 CRA Award and proud to continue to diligently search to expand the items we accept for recycling." We are thrilled that the extended polyethylene (EPE) foam, which was formerly a pollutant, can now be recycled.It is a good phenomenon that the types of foam recycling are gradually becoming diversified. We cannot stick to recycling only one type of foam, such as EPS foam. This does not achieve true foam recycling. Real foam recycling needs to include all types of foam as much as possible. foam and achieve complete reuse.

Because there was a lot of contamination in the foam collections, UNCW Recycling started recycling expanded polyethylene (EPE) in the beginning of 2023. In fact, the recycling of EPE foam seems to have started earlier, and there was an upsurge in recycling EPE foam even as early as ten years ago. Because EPE foam is a softer foam than EPS foam, this material is even more popular for the packaging of some items. There are many ways to recycle EPE foam. Currently, GREENMAX foam compactor, foam densifier and foam granulator can help recycle EPE foam, and recycling technology has also become diversified.

The Foam compator Zeus series is a piece of equipment that is very suitable for recycling EPE foam. This equipment fully combines the advantages of cold pressing technology and hot melt technology to make recycling simple. First, the EPE foam is broken and then compressed to 1/50 of the original volume. All processes before this use cold pressing technology. Only in the subsequent discharging process will the surface of the blocs be heated by heat melting to make them compressed. Tighter. While ensuring the compression effect, it retains the energy-saving advantages of cold pressing technology. This is the advantage of the GREENMAX foam compactor Zeus series. This equipment can recycle both EPE foam and EPS foam. Both recycling needs of UNCW Recycling Company are well met. This equipment is not limited to recycling one kind of material, which effectively improves the efficiency of the equipment and saves cost of investment.