The lunch bell rang and more than 130,000 Duval County students in Florida entered the cafeteria. Staff will provide each hungry child with lunch in a disposable EPS tray. It's these EPS trays that make sure every lunch is steaming hot, giving kids plenty of nutrition. According to the DCPS foodservice website, schools in Jacksonville serve 225,000 breakfast meals and 335,000 lunch meals each week in more than 200 public schools across Duval County. The weekly 555,000 meals translate to approximately 23 million meals over the instructional academic year.

According to the DCPS report, 23 million EPS pallets end up in landfills or worse, dumped directly into the ocean year after year. EPS is not degradable. Once discarded, waste EPS will remain permanently in soil and water sources, coexisting with humans, and it is serious white pollution. In addition to the problem of environmental pollution, there is another issue worth thinking about, that is, the waste of resources. The refusal to recycle EPS also has a certain negative impact on the education of students.

It is very important to pass on the correct concept of EPS recycling to the students. Now that EPS recycling has become a global issue, recycling also requires the active participation of the younger generation. If schools allow waste EPS to be discarded at will, then there is no way to establish an environmental protection concept for students. Schools can organize students to carry out public welfare recycling activities and cooperate with local recyclers for EPS recycling.

Why use an EPS densifier can efficiently recycle EPS？

EPS densifier is an indispensable step in the whole recycling process. Additional costs (excluding payment to recyclers) incurred when recycling EPS, such as transportation costs. Waste EPS can be compressed by GREENMAX EPS densifier. The compression ratio of this machine is 90:1, which is extremely efficient. Compressing the EPS into dense ingots also effectively avoids the EPS from being broken into small particles and scattered into the natural environment by the wind.

What can we do after recycling EPS?

At present, waste EPS is a raw material that many manufacturers are rushing to buy. These recycled materials can be mixed with new EPS materials to make new plastic products. The tighter waste EPS is compressed, the more popular it is with buyers, so the high compression ratio of the GREENMAX EPS densifier has attracted many customers in the United States and around the world. In addition to providing EPS densifiers, GREENMAX also has a complete EPS recycling system, mainly to avoid the phenomenon that EPS recycling cannot form a closed loop. GREENMAX purchases waste EPS that meets the requirements from all over the world to manufacture environmentally-friendly photo frames. At the same time, to promote the concept of environmental protection, GREENMAX will regularly receive students to the factory to visit the production process of the EPS recycling system and photo frames and make a contribution to the cause of environmental protection.