The saying that polystyrene foam food and beverage packaging is not recyclable is misunderstood by many people. Actually, foam materials like foam food trays are recyclable materials which need to be disposed by special machines.
Nowadays, there are economical, recyclable and easily attainable alternatives to polystyrene foam. If these products can be removed from the waste stream, it will be more convenient to dispose the foam food trays.
All the food service businesses are running well with the cheap foam food packaging materials. However, the more demand of it, the more waste it will produce. Many environmental associations call for foam ban due to the “white pollution”. And most of the people may only know the method to dispose foam materials is to landfill which is not good to the environment and animals.
In fact, the other more effective and economic method to dispose the foam food trays is recycling. Foam food trays recycling is a popular method which is well accepted by many people. The recycled foam materials can be reused to make other plastic products.
Recycling machines like compactors can help dispose the foam food materials for the first step : reduce the volume of the loose bulky foam. The GREENMAX compactors from INTCO recycling are professional machines for recycling foam materials like EPS, EPE, XPS and so on.
As you know now, the foam food trays are indeed can be recycled and reused to make other products. For us, to find solutions is more important than escape the difficulties to dispose the foam materials.