With the increasing awareness of environmental protection, many countries and enterprises have begun to pay attention to energy and environmental protection issues. Especially the packaging industry attaches great importance to such issues. More and more retail stores in the United States are beginning to pay attention to the concept of ESG and are committed to achieving the goal of zero waste. Retail and grocery stores across the US have taken some major steps to save energy in areas such as energy efficiency, packaging waste, leftover food, purchasing, and transportation. Among them, the recycling of polystyrene foam packaging is one of the important ways to reduce energy waste.

 

We should carry out polystyrene foam recycling in terms of resource utilization and environmental protection.

Environmental protection

To avoid the recycling of polystyrene foam, many related companies have adopted a "simple" method for recycling. That is to incinerate foam. This is not advocated. Because many carbon-containing gases are produced during the incineration process. This is also one of the reasons for the greenhouse effect. Not only has an impact on the environment, but these gases can also harm human health, and some gases have been proven to be one of the causes of lung cancer.

Resource-saving

In the United States, according to data, the packaging industry is the industry that generates the most foam waste. If the waste produced is recycled and applied to new plastic products, it will save a lot of crude oil resources. Natural resources are not inexhaustible, so the use of polystyrene foam recycled materials and new materials to produce products has become the mainstream. At the same time, the recycling of resources is realized.

In order to successfully implement the ESG concept and carry out foam recycling, GREENMAX foam compactor can be used for foam recycling in industries such as furniture packaging. Foam compactor first breaks the huge foam into small pieces, these small pieces are extruded to 1/50 of the original volume by the screw, and the foam compactor is well prepared for recycling.

Waste recycled by foam compactor can be made into new plastic products. For example, GREENMAX repurchases foam blocs to make frame bars for the convenience of customers’ recycling projects. GREENMAX does its best to practice the ESG concept!