In recent years, the government’s EPS use ban and EPS recycling project have been steadily carried out until the corona virus pandemic.
This viral crisis has suspended people’s daily lives and created huge waves in various aspects such as economy, politics, and society. Withdrawal of environmental policies, plummeting prices of petroleum raw materials, and closure of recycling centers, the debate on solving EPS pollution has almost stalled.
The recycling industry has been hit hard. The price of crude oil plummeted, and the raw materials used to make EPS became cheaper. In the material market, when the price of new EPS materials is lower than that of recycled EPS, the new EPS materials are mass produced and sold. Waste also increased, and recyclers were unable to sell recycled EPS to make profits, ending the EPS recycling project, and finally leading to a new round of EPS pollution.
INTCO Recycling, headquartered in California, is a recycling expert specializing in the development of EPS recycling equipment. It has long shared EPS recycling methods on social media. The foam exhibition originally scheduled to take part in March brought EPS hot melting machine M-C200 to show the public the hot melting technology of EPS waste, which was planned to be postponed because of COVID-19.
The hot melting technology of EPS waste is not complicated, but only requires professional recycling equipment. The main function is to reduce the cost of EPS recycling and improve the profitability of the recycler. An EPS hot melting machine M-C50 can squeeze all the air content in EPS with a compression ratio of 90: 1. INTCO also provides material purchasing services, which is why more and more recyclers are cooperating with them.
When the environmental policy and EPS recycling project restart, we hope that more recyclers will introduce the EPS recycling project to face the threat of EPS pollution, and the recycling industry will also develop.