Every year, about 1 million pounds of items left in curbside recycling bins and at city drop-off sites end up in the landfill.
That includes things that shouldn’t be placed in curbside recycling bins, such as plastic bags, glass dishes and cups, Styrofoam, metal pots and pans. It also includes any unwashed items with too much food residue — cans, bottles, plastic food containers — that shouldn’t go into any recycling container.
Polystyrene foam is one of the most wastes that can be seen around you. The polystyrene is applied in many industries like home appliance packaging or fish processing industry or food service industry. However, the food containers which are dirty can not be recycled to make other products, except that people wash them.
Polystyrene recycling may be difficult for many people who don’t have a warehouse to store the bulky loose polystyrene foam. But if you find a professional machine to help you reduce the foam volume, it will be easy for you to store the foam materials.
Polystyrene recycling machine like compactors or densifiers can both reduce the foam volume with high ratio. The recycled foam materials with small volume can be stacked on the pallets and then sold to be recycled to make new products. So as you know, not all the waste should be landfill. If people know more about the recyclable materials, the world resources would be full used.