Since 2020, Australia has successively promulgated a ban on the use of EPS disposable foam packaging and lunch boxes. For example, the Queensland Government will fine businesses more than $6000 if they are caught serving food and drink in foam cups and containers under proposed laws set to be debated in the new year of 2021. However, these prohibitions and restrictions have not completely eliminated the white foam pollution of EPS waste in Australia. In this case, a professional EPS recycling machine has become an effective solution.
EPS foam has excellent thermal insulation and shock resistance, and is widely used in express packaging, lunch boxes, cups, building insulation boards, etc., and is usually discarded after one-time use. The service life of EPS foam is relatively short. About 50% of the EPS foam products have a service life of only 2 years, and 97% of the EPS foam products have a service life of fewer than 10 years, resulting in an increase in the amount of EPS foam waste.
In Australia, EPS packaging and food and beverage containers are particularly problematic because it is not currently recoverable through kerbside recycling, since it is bulky in volume and will quickly fill up the recycling bins and cause high transportation costs. In response to the difficulty in recycling EPS waste due to its large volume and lightweight, GREENMAX has launched the GREENMAX Apolo Series EPS Compactor after years of technological innovation.
Equipped with the screw and automatic hydraulic system, GREENMAX EPS Compactor can compress the loose EPS waste into dense and uniform blocks with a volume reduction ratio of 50:1, greatly reducing the volume of waste foam, therefore saving storage and transportation costs. In Australia, over 100 businesses and organizations in EPS recycling-related fields across Australia and New Zealand have made GREENMAX EPS Compactor their first choice, especially the councils and non-profit organizations. If you’re looking for an EPS recycling solution, GREENMAX will be your right-hand man just a phone call away.