Different companies have different solutions when talking about foam recycling. According to statistics, the foam recycling (including direct recycling, roadside classification, comprehensive utilization, etc.) accounts for 56%, direct landfill accounts for 26%, and incineration takes around 18% proportion of all waste disposal methods in developing countries. However, this efficiency is still low compared to consumption.
Some people propose to ban the use of foam boxes and replace them with plastic boxes because of the large amount of waste generated by the consumption of foam products. However, it is not The principle of foam box is to reduce the temperature change caused by heat conduction, because the specific heat capacity of the plastic itself is not high, the thermal conductivity is also very low, but the specific heat and thermal conductivity of the gas is much lower than the plastic.
Because there are a lot of holes filled with air in the foam, it not only hinder the heat conduction, but also makes the heat conduction distance between the inner layer and the outer layer through the plastic greatly improved. Therefore, the insulation capacity of the foam box is better than the plastic box. Instead of foam box banning, foam recycling in an efficient and eco-friendly way is the reasonable solution.
INTCO provides foam densifier which helps to save cost and space by compressing many kinds of foam, such as EPS, polyethylene foam. The foam densifier is simple and safe to operation with high equipment compression ratio of 90:1. As existing partner of INTCO, there is a salmon processing company in Poland, which they have a lot of used fish foam boxes to dispose and they have to spend a large cost for storage and recycling.
After they bought a GREENMAX foam densifier from INTCO, they started recycling fish boxes in low operation expense and sold waste to other for profit. Most importantly, they earn public relations points as a green business with GREENMAX foam densifier. If you have no sales channels for compressed foam, INTCO could purchase back them to support your business.