Something Introduction on Expanded Polystyrene Recycling

In order to produce expanded polystyrene (EPS), the engineer wrapped the tiny bubbles with polystyrene to produce this foamed material. EPS becomes popular because it is cheap and easy to manufacture, it has insulation properties, and is lightweight and waterproof. However, the material is not biodegraded and takes decades or even generations to completely degrade. Because it is a synthetic plastic, it decomposes slowly in the environment. So expanded polystyrene recycling is important to protect the environment.

Because EPS products are commonly used in food containers, these materials are often contaminated by waste, forcing people to abandon the bubble rather than recover it. People do not discard items in designated trash cans, but dump waste on the side of the road as garbage, where they can be dispersed into the environment.

Although EPS is fully recyclable, there are several factors that make it difficult to break down and reuse materials.

One of the most expensive aspects of recycling is the movement of materials from use or disposal to the recycling location. For lightweight products such as EPS, the cost is higher. It is the strength of it coming back to bother it, because it is mainly by the air, if you want to transport it to a place for recycling, you will use most of the air to fill a truck.

Compared with EPS cups and food containers, packaging EPS can be easier to recycle, because it's bulky enough to make expensive shipping worth it, he said. Recycling companies can break down these larger EPS materials and use it to break small beads to make new materials.

However, we can use the compactor machines to solve these kinds of problems, the waste EPS can be compact first, and then transport to the recycling place.