EPS recycling News
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EPS Recycling is Big Business
Most people never give waste EPS a thought beyond the time it takes them carry large quantities of waste EPS to landfill. But for many businesses and plastic machinery factories, EPS recycling is serious business. In a nutshell, EPS recycling is the industry which revolves around the collection, compaction, crushing and pelletizing, ranging from food container to insulation sheet. Developing ...
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Styrofoam Recycling Process
The process of recycling Styrofoam involves feeding the collected expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam through conveyor belts into a machine that first shreds the material. Foam Densifiers transfer the material to a plastic extruder where the foam is exposed to heat and pressure to be melted into a paste. This densified foam is extruded through a small outlet of the machine, and when cooled, ...
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Helping You to Save Cost—New Type of EPS Compactors
As a leading plastic recycling equipment supplier in China, Harden never stops developing a series of solid waste recycling products. Recently, Harden successfully develops and manufactures new type of EPS compactors for you to effectively recycle waste EPS, EPP, and XPS. Harden realizes that governments at home and abroad pay more and more attention to environmental protection when doing market ...
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Our Styrofoam Recycling Machines
Polystyrene, more commonly known as Styrofoam, is universally used as packing material for protecting fragile items in transit. The world produces nearly ten million metric tons of polystyrene to meet the demands of the shipping, food, and other industries. However, up to 98% of polystyrene scrap material or waste ends up in our waste stream, taking up 25 to 30 percent of landfills. Expanded ...
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Oregon Metro Collaborates with Agilyx to Launch Polystyrene Foam Collection
Agilyx Corporation ("Agilyx"), the leader in chemical recycling of post-use plastics back into polymers, chemicals and low carbon fuels, today announced a collaboration with Oregon Metro ("Metro"), a regional government group, to pilot a polystyrene foam collection program. The Polystyrene foam will be aggregated at the Metro South Transfer Station and recycled back to new material using Agilyx's ...
By Agilyx
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Strautmann Umwelttechnik compacts Styrofoam® up to 700kg/m³
Make money out of your waste with balers from Strautmann Umwelttechnik. Week by week, there are many thousand of tons of waste which arise from packaging material and insulation material, which comes from expanded polystyrene, short EPS, like Styrofoam®. In the 90s the disposal of this very voluminous material was very expensive for many companies. Nowadays many progressive enterprises earn ...
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Appliance Recycling Centers of America Reports Record 2011 Operating Results
Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARCI) today reported record operating results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. Revenues for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 ("2011") increased by 17% to $126.7 million compared to $108.2 million for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2011 ("2010"). Operating income for 2011 increased by 136% to $7.2 million compared to $3.1 ...
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A new tech of making nanofiber filter media
Recently our company do a research about making nanofiber filter media. Here I will introduce to you as followings: In this work polystyrene (PS) nanofibers are electrospun from recycled expanded polystyrene (EPS). These fibers are mixed with micro glass fibers to modify the glass fiber filter media. The filter media are tested in the separation of water droplets from an emulsion of water ...
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Less waste and cleaner water in Europe by 2020?
Legislation on waste recycling and water quality is up for debate amoung MEPs in Strasbourg. If Members back a compromise agreement with EU environment ministers tougher recycling and water quality standards will be in place by 2020 and 2018 respectively. Re-using 50% of all glass, paper and metal is one target contained in the draft legislation. By chance this week is also 'Green week' in the EP ...
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Recognition for our recycling
Our contribution to the environment is and always will remain an important topic, not just at an individual level but also at a business and government level as each country is scrutinised for their commitment and efforts toward a greener future. Some of the major factors that get juggled in this topic include pollution, global warming, climate change, water pollution, ozone depletion and ...
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EPS Densifier Cuts Labor and Disposal Costs for Best Buy
Country’s largest consumer electronics retailer finds solution from JWR, Inc. and Bright Technologies. Best Buy has been a household name in consumer electronics for the past 35 years, since the typical television set had a 19‐inch screen. Over the decades, “big screen” TVs have become commonplace, with the average size now approaching 50 inches. At the same time, Best ...
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The 2012 LIFE+ projects
Austria 4 projects (14.5 million) LIFE+ Environment Policy and Governance (1 project – 3.6 million) LIFE-URBANLAKE (Stadt Wien – Magistratsabteilung 45 – Wiener Gewässer): This project intends to define strategies to reduce the vulnerability of the “Alte Donau” from effects of climate change and other anthropogenic pressures with the goal of securing the oxbow ...
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