In North America, EPS recycling, let alone reuse, is not an easy task. Because the plastic identification number of EPS is No. 6, some people call it "Public Enemy No. 6", because EPS takeaway containers, electronic product packaging, refrigerators, and other products that we discard every year are more likely to pollute waterways or be buried in landfills more likely to be landfilled. According to a report on recycling, less than 4% of EPS plastic containers and packaging in the United States were recycled in 2012. In recent years, however, recycling rates have increased significantly. EPS post-consumer and post-commercial recycling account for 47% of all post-consumer polystyrene recycled in the U.S., one of the highest in the plastic family.



Of course, many cities still refuse to carry out EPS recycling events or do not accept EPS as a recyclable material in recycling centers. Actually, it is not that Americans or companies have little environmental awareness and are unwilling to protect the environment, but that EPS recycling is really a very difficult activity. According to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association, only 35% of recycling programs include EPS, forcing people to put it in landfills. However, the appearance of the GREENMAX EPS compactor from INTCO Recycling will cause some changes in this situation.



As the second largest EPS manufacturer in the Canadian construction industry, AMVIC INC took the initiative to carry out its own EPS recycling reform. In the production of products, AMVIC INC will produce a lot of leftover foam and make them feel a headache. After knowing that many co-workers used recycling machines to deal with EPS waste, AMVIC INC also decided to cooperate with INTCO Recycling, which is on behalf of the recycling industry and purchased an A-C100 EPS compactor. After the good working with this machine, they bought a GREENMAX A-C300 EPS compactor with higher production capacity, which perfectly solved the problem of recycling EPS.



According to the latest EPS recycling report, 136.8 million EPS pools were recycled in the United States in 2019, while the figure for Canada was 3.5 billion kilograms. This is inseparable from the polystyrene recycling machine that the EPS compactor represents. Compared with the considerable cost and environmental pollution caused by landfills, the use of EPS recycling machines to recycle EPS, which is both ecological protection and the scientific method, has been more and more recognized in the world.