Covington’s annual drop-off event for recycling e-waste, old files, and polystyrene will be held as scheduled on June 25th, at this event, your accumulated polystyrene waste can be recycled for free! This kind of polystyrene recycling activity has recently become very popular in various regions of the United States, proving that people are becoming more and more aware of environmental protection and recycling polystyrene waste. Hosted by Keep Covington Beautiful, The Centre for Great Neighborhoods in partnership with the City of Covington, the event is in its seventh year. Recycling in Covington is clearly on the rise.

“Since 2016, we have diverted and maximized recycling of more than 67,000 pounds of waste. This waste was meant to go to a landfill, but through everyone’s efforts, the recyclable waste is recovered, and we have very proud," said Stephanie Bacher, the city's director of solid waste and recycling. Residents learned that there will be recycling activities in June every year, and they usually take out the waste that they have accumulated for a year to participate in the recycling activities, many of which are polystyrene waste. Waste electronic equipment will be recycled by Cobalt and the paper recycling partner is Shred-It. But we don't know for sure whether polystyrene waste was similarly disposed of.

The recycling of polystyrene waste is nothing new. Mechanical recycling is very popular in various regions of the United States. Whether it is polystyrene produced by residents or industrial polystyrene waste produced by factories, it can be recycled. The polystyrene compactor is the main equipment in the recycling process. The main function of the polystyrene compactor is to pretreat the polystyrene waste to facilitate subsequent recycling.

First, the machine crushes waste polystyrene. The sharp crushing knife in the crushing device can crush the polystyrene into pieces of suitable size, and then these polystyrene fragments enter the compression device, and the high-strength extrusion of the screw produces dense polystyrene blocks. The main function of the polystyrene compactor is to help reduce the volume of the huge polystyrene, squeeze out 98% of the air, and save recycling costs.

The polystyrene waste compressed by the polystyrene compactor is usually transported to the factory to be produced into new plastic products. GREENMAX provides a complete recycling solution: we also repurchase polystyrene blocks to make plastic photo frames, truly realizing polystyrene waste recycling. Recently GREENMAX has launched a new pelletizing machine that can make plastic pellets. GREENMAX continues to innovate and cultivate in the field of recycling equipment manufacturing, bringing customers excellent recycling machines like polystyrene compactors.

If you have recycling needs and have no clue about the recycling of polystyrene waste, do not hesitate to contact GREENMAX at any time, we will design a suitable polystyrene recycling solution for you free of charge according to your actual situation!