A recent survey found that 82% of American
adults support the national plastic recycling standard. We believe that
national plastic recycling standards need to be developed to support the
circular economy and help achieve the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
goal of raising the national recycling rate to 50% by 2030.
Today, the recycling rate in the United
States hovers around 35%, and plastic packaging lags behind. The biggest
reasons why plastic packaging lags behind other materials include the complexity
of plastic packaging and the lack of recycling systems.
Most of the recycling infrastructure in the
United States was built decades ago, mainly for collecting bottles, cans and
newspapers. Since then, many new types of packaging have been introduced, including
lightweight plastic packaging, such as wrappers, snack bags and resealable
pouches. This helps to reduce the weight and quantity of packaging needed to
transport food and beverages, resulting in some important environmental
benefits, such as reducing food waste, as well as saving energy use, greenhouse
gas emissions and resources
The birth of plastic is only more than 100
years now, and people’s lives have changed dramatically because of plastic. In
this short hundred years, countless industries have emerged because of
plastics, and countless industries have become dilapidated because of plastics.
However, now people have to start to feel headache because of a large amount of
plastic foam garbage. Greenmax Styrofoam densifier also came into being.
The Styrofoam densifier can greatly
reduce the volume of foam, and the whole equipment is simple to operate without
a lot of manual work. The high quality and compactness of the pressing material
are of great help for the subsequent storage and transportation. If you are
having trouble with foam recycling. If you are in trouble because of styrofoam
recycling, you are welcome to leave your information. GreenMax will
answer all kinds of foam recycling questions for you.