Traxpo - Expanded Polystyrene Waste Management Services
What should be done with the EPS waste? We buy expanded polyestyrene waste from our collaboratos around the world on a daily basis, being dedicated exclussively to recycle it. So if you regularly generate EPS waste, we can help you with the process of managing it.
- Color
- Origin: Post industrial or post consumer
- Quality: Electrical packaging, fish box, construction…
- Quantity: Weight per load/pallet and monthly production
- Pictures of the lotcamiones
- Expected contamination: PU, concrete, wood, metal, cardboard…
With this information, a Traxpo executive will contact you with a purchase offer taking into account the specifications of the material and the evolution of the polystyrene market in current times.
EPS is a challenging kind of waste to manage due to its low density. This can result on an increase of transport cost and in addition, there are many landfills that do not accept this material anymore.
In order to manage EPS waste properly, we need to compact it in densities greater than 200kg/m3 so that it can be suitable for transport. Therefore, once the density increases, the value becames a reality.
We recommend using one of these two kinds of densifiers
- EPS cold compactors: Reach densities up to 200-500kg/m3. This is the most common kind of compactor among Traxpo`s collaborators. .
- Melting Densifier: Available through processes of extrusion, electrical resistance and ifrared. They are usually slower and require more energy consumption. They have an ability to reduce better weight/volume ration, up to 90:1