In Canada, Ontario’s New EPS Recycling Plan Is Controversial

Canada has always been a big country in plastic recycling, and it has previous experience in EPS recycling. But on January 1 this year, Ontario, Canada launched a new recycling program. The scheme requires private sector producers such as those using plastic packaging and EPS packaging to pay for recycling waste. What's more worrying for environmentalists is the province's decision to turn plastics such as EPS into fuels, calling it "advanced recycling."



According to reports, the Doug Ford government is currently working on advanced EPS recycling: the decomposition of plastic waste and EPS waste into other fuels and products through chemical catalysis and heating. You must know that the EPS waste problem is actually a quick solution to the reputation. Usually, EPS waste is sent to landfill, and it may be possible to decompose itself into plastic fragments after hundreds of years, and it will still pollute the environment in the end. Although the government calls this chemical reaction "advanced recycling," the process is actually experimental and may produce harmful gases or substances that pollute the environment and human health.



Environmentalists don't have enough confidence in this EPS recycling method. In addition, the manager of the environmental protection project also said that this EPS recycling method is unproven, expensive (requires a lot of chemicals), and also causes pollution, so we should not place our hopes on it. Indeed, there are mature EPS recycling technologies available now, so why not choose?



Now, if you want to recycle EPS waste, you only need an EPS densifier. EPS has always been considered difficult to recycle because EPS is usually bulky and difficult to transport efficiently. However, EPS densifier can reduce the volume of EPS to one-fifth or even one-ninth of the original volume through compression technology. Compressed EPS ingots, as a renewable material, will be purchased by recyclers for the processing of new plastic products.



INTCO Recycling is professional in EPS recycling. You can trust that INTCO can provide a total and comprehensive EPS recycling solution. It’s also important that recycling EPS through an EPS densifier will lead to no pollution anymore. So the GREENMAX EPS densifier is the safest and most effective recycling equipment now.


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