Can the protective foam packaging of the fruit be recycled ?

Many people when they buy fruit in the supermarket may often see the packaging made of Polyethylene PE foam, and most people will choose to remove the packaging and then put the fruit into their own bags. Some people will be willing to buy a whole box of fruit directly with the PE foam packaging. Have you ever thought of this protective PE foam packaging of fruit is a recyclable material?

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The answer may be negative. Most people may never considered about this problem. In fact, this PE foam packaging materials are also used for other areas of packaging, such as home appliances packaging, which are shockproof materials.

Why can this PE foam material be used for shockproof materials ? Because most of this foam material is air and the foam itself is bulky, which can effectively alleviate the impact of the outside world. It is recyclable because the PE foam raw material is a recyclable material, so the sahped PE foam can be used to granulate and then be used to make other products.

You may be curious about how to recycle PE foam materials. Actually, it’s very simple. Only a special machine used to deal with PE foam recycling can easily realize the recycling. According to the number of your PE foam material and the size of the material , you can choose the right machine. Such protective PE foam for fruit has small size, so you can use a small hot melt machine to deal with.

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This hot melt machine can be supplied by GREENMAX from INTCO. The working principle of the hot melt machine is simple, you only need to put the PE foam material into the machine, it will crush the PE foam material and then use its hot melting system to heat the PE foam material into ingots. These ingots are easy to store and easy to transport. But also can be used to granulate and produce other products.

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