Polystyrene Recycling News
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Foam Balers By Harmony
Types of Recyclable Foam Can different types of foam or foam packaging be recycled? The answer is YES! With the right type of heavy duty foam baler, you can make consistently dense bales of even the most difficult recyclable foam that end users will pay good money for. There are three main types of foams that are recyclable, including polyethylene foam, polystyrene foam, and polyurethane ...
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Impact Boom - Troy Swope On Environmentally Friendly And Innovative Plastic Manufacturing
Troy’s work as a self-titled ‘accidental environmentalist’ has already led to invention and production of plant-based fibre solutions designed to be sustainable, biodegradable and compostable and are being implemented by its customers in nearly every U.S. grocery store – with performance and price comparable with plastic. Troy’s expertise spans over 20 years, first ...
By Footprint
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Expanded Polystyrene Manufacturers Use Ship & Shore Environmental to Meet Clean Air Regulations
Anyone who has encountered foam clamshells for restaurant take-out food, white or green “peanut” packing to cushion shipments, or those thick foam blocks for protecting boxed furniture is familiar with expanded polystyrene (EPS). In use since the 1930s, EPS continues to gain popularity and is used around the world in applications from surfboard cores to roadways to building and construction ...
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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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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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3 model cities without waste, “Japan, South Korea, Taiwan”
To become a smart city or smart city which is the common goal of members in the ASEAN region In the middle of February The Cabinet therefore approved the management of plastic waste. by setting up two flags for 2022 The first goal is to "ban" 4 types of plastic that will be completely phased out next year, namely styrofoam boxes for food packaging. Plastic bags with handles less than 36 microns ...
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Efficient volume reduction of cardboard boxes with our EKZ1800
Currently 70% of all materials such as cardboard, paper and cardboard are recycled. According to the German Packaging Act (VerpackG), even 90% of it should be recycled by 2022 (source: VerpackG §16, paragraph 2). This makes the carton an environmentally friendly packaging solution. Paper and cardboard are valuable raw materials that play a major role in recycling and waste management. ...
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Environmental Leaders Cheer Gov. Murphy’s Signature on the Strongest Single-Use Waste Ban Bill in the Nation
A coalition of environmental groups applauded Gov. Murphy’s signature today of A1978/S864, now the strongest law in the country to reduce single-use waste to clean up our communities and the environment. The legislation passed the NJ Assembly 48-24-7 and the Senate 26-12 in late September. The legislation, which will go into effect in Spring 2022, bans single-use plastic carryout bags and ...
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Styrofoam Recycling Business New Distributor in UK
With installations in 21 countries, SIEDON Technologies is recognized as a global manufacturer in the custom design and manufacturing of industrial shredders and compaction systems. By adding a distributor in UK, SIEDON will be able to take advantage of their new proximity in Europe to increase efficiencies in communication response times and methods. Finding the right candidate to successfully ...
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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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The Gilman Brothers Company Announces New Recycling Program
The Gilman Brothers Company is excited to announce that their INFINITY® styrene faced foamboard and their InSite Reveal paper faced foamboard products with or without UV or Latex Inks have been tested and determined to be of acceptable composition to be recycled through Agilyx’s proprietary polystyrene advanced recycling solution. The two companies have pioneered a first-in-kind, ...
By Agilyx
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Agilyx agrees to an exclusive collaboration with TechnipFMC to enable new pathways for post-use polystyrene to enhance the circular economy
Agilyx Corporation ("Agilyx"), the leader in chemical recycling of post-use plastics back into polymers, chemicals and low carbon fuels, today announced the exclusive collaboration with TechnipFMC to jointly develop a process to purify Agilyx Styrene Oil to high purity styrene. This collaboration has been the result of over a year of evaluation, and their desire to expand their energy transition ...
By Agilyx
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Agilyx Collaborates with Tekni-Plex to increase post-consumer Polystyrene Collection in the State of Washington
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 Dolco Packaging ("Dolco"), a leading manufacturer of polystyrene foam egg cartons and a Tekni-Plex business, to pilot a polystyrene plastic collection program. Polystyrene foam will be aggregated at Dolco's Wenatchee, ...
By Agilyx
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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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What to do with all the Styrofoam in your holiday packages
There’s a lot of junk that comes into the PPRE-Forevergreen plant in Charlotte, N.C. But once inside the building, the bales of comingled cardboard, paper, plastic, aluminum and other materials get started on a new life. In many ways, the non-profit ministry runs a standard recycling operation. Workers break down the bales and sort the contents, then re-bale the materials and ship them ...
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US Business Review Article: Crushing Competitors
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as the old saying goes. Such is the case for Hopkins, Mich.- based Sebright Products Inc., which designs, manufactures, installs and services waste compaction equipment for commercial and heavy industrial applications. The company was founded in 1976 as a waste compactor installation business, but started manufacturing equipment ...
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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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Axion Polymers: ‘Success - we’d do Interplas every year!’
Plastics recycler Axion Polymers has declared its attendance at Interplas 2017 a ‘great success’, having collected more than 100 leads, including two firm invitations to quote from potential plastic clients, over the show’s three days. “Interplas is a key show for us, so having put a lot of planning effort into our stand, we were very pleased to be rewarded with a ...
By Axion Group
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Kids taking center stage in science awards
Leave it to Google to shine a light on our next generation of young scientists! As we start getting ready for the 2017 academic year, Sterlitech decided to look back at last year’s Google Science Fair awards. One group of clever kids caught our attention by winning the 2016 Scientific American Innovator Award with a subject near and dear to our hearts: filtration. They made filters from a ...
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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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