Polystyrene foam is widely used because it’s lightweight, easy to ship and works well with both hot and cold food and beverages.Made from plastic #6, EPS foam is comprised of 97 percent air. It is easily carried by wind and water currents to all reaches of our planet, and its unsinkable nature makes it a main component of marine debris,due to the great pressure to the environmental protection, we are responsible for recycling styrofoam wastes to do our bit to make the earth green and healthy.
Here are 4 small tips that you may realise that styrofoam waste is valuable and versatile in our daily life:
Usually, whether we buy electricity or receive express delivery, we will have a lot of bubbles. Are you throwing away such bubbles? Actually, the bubble is a good baby, but we don’t know its magical effect. Let’s take a look at it with me.
If you have flowers in your home, you can bury some foam blocks at the bottom of the pot to prevent the roots of flowers and plants. At the same time, it is more conducive to the development of flower roots.
The mattress at home is asleep, or the mat is too thin. You can put more foam on it, so that you can sleep more comfortably.
In addition, when we brush stainless steel tableware, such as stainless steel basins, rice cooker liners, the steel balls will wear the surface, but the rags will not be cleaned. In fact, you can use a foam to wipe, you will find that the wash is very clean.
Is it always necessary to wear an increase in shoes? We don’t have to buy a high insole today. The foam is good enough to be made at home. Padded in the shoes, increased by several centimeters at a time.
In order to transport the lightweight foam to the recycling facilities, some companies feed the EPS that collected from roadside programs into a machine called EPS densifier to turn the loose foam into dense ingots.