According to a recent survey, although EPS is 100% recyclable, most of the EPS waste in Australia still goes directly to landfills. 70% of the EPS waste in Australia comes from the construction industry. This situation is different from the source of EPS waste in Europe. Most of the EPS waste in Europe comes from fishing. So what is the reason for the low recycling rate of EPS waste in the Australian construction industry?
After a survey by GREENMAX, the main reason why people refuse to recycle EPS in the construction industry is that the cost of recycling EPS is too expensive. The profit from selling EPS is very low and even not enough to pay for expensive transportation and labor costs and landfill costs are relatively lower and less troublesome, so these related industries would rather take the risk of violating environmental regulations and policies and choose to use landfill to dispose of EPS construction waste.
GREENMAX is very concerned about this phenomenon. Landfilling EPS not only means harm to the natural environment but also interrupts the closed-loop of resource recycling. For this reason, GREENMAX manufactures professional EPS recycling machines to recycle EPS and call on people to abandon landfills and incineration, which are not green recycling methods. One of the most popular types is the EPS compactor. Through GREENMAX’s typical customer case, we can understand what GREENMAX’s entire EPS recycling solution is like.
CASES
One of GREENMAX’s northern Italian customers is a recycler who has his recycling site. Among the waste he recycles, there are many EPS packaging, building materials, fish boxes, etc. He is very distressed about this. Like Australia, the landfill fee in Italy is also very high, even higher than it in Australia. The price of a ton is 200 euros (Australia is 126 US dollars per ton). Facing the same high landfill fee as the transportation cost during the recycling process, he doesn’t know how to choose.
Then, he asked GREENMAX for help. After many discussions, the recycling company chose GREENMAX’s Apolo series polystyrene compactor. This EPS recycling machine can compress EPS to one-fiftieth of its original volume. Significantly lower shipping costs due to reduced volume and with a polystyrene compactor, and the customer no longer has to pay high landfill fees. EPS compressed with EPS compactors is favored by many downstream recyclers, so our customer sells the compressed polystyrene to a local recycler in need for additional profit.
In addition to providing EPS compactors, if your compressed EPS waste meets GREENMAX’s acquisition requirements, we will also buy back your compressed material to make environmentally friendly frames to help you achieve an economic closed loop. This is GREENMAX’s EPS recycling idea. If you are also interested in our recycling method, please feel free to contact us!