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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the benefits of recycling plastic foam?

    • Lower your costs and improve recycling habits.
    • Help reduce your landfill-bound waste.
    • Save up to 80% annually in disposal and waste hauling fees!
    • Turn your Foam Waste into a Vaiuable Resource with RecycleTech's Foam Densifiers.
    • Generate an income from your EPS foam waste!
    • Earn your company certifications and awards for excellent environmental and waste reduction practices.
    • Save valuable landfill space, since EPS foam doesn not compress well and takes over 500 years to decompose.
    • Recycled plastic foam is re-used to create new products made of plastic like: shoe soles, garden pots, photo frames, automobile parts, etc.
    • Equipment does not produce contaminants to the environment or human health and is UL & CSA Compliant

  • Why Recycle STYROFOAM®?

    • Save up to 80% annually in disposal and waste hauling fees!
    • Lower your costs & improve recycling habits by reducing your landfill-bound waste
    • Turn your Foam Waste into a Valuable Resource with RecycleTech’s Foam Densifiers.
    • Generate an income from your EPS foam waste!
    • Earn your company certifications and awards for excellent environmental and
      waste reduction practices.
    • Save valuable landfill space, since EPS foam does not compress well and takes
      over 500 years to decompose.
    • Recycled plastic foam is re-used to create new products made of plastic like:
      shoe soles, garden pots, photo frames, automobile parts, etc.
    • Equipment does not produce contaminants to the environment or human
      health and is UL & CSA Compliant.

  • What is EPS/STYROFOAM®?

    • Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) is a plastic polymer with classification #6.
    • Made of 95-98% air
    • 2-5% Plastic PS
    • Does not contain CFC's
    • Pure Hidrocarbon
    • Light weight and resistant to humidity

  • How is foam discarded?

    Methods

    1. Landfill: impossible to decompose
    2. WTE: generates heat
    3. Compacting and pelleting
    4. Melting or densifying
    5. Crushing and mixing with concrete
    6. Shredding into small pieces and mixing with soil for planting purposes

  • 6 Reasons to Recycle Foam #6

    1. Industries, commerce and government can generate an income
    2. Reduces the amount of solid waste discarded
    3. Reduces our dependency of crude oil
    4. Save on operational costs
    5. Creates jobs
    6. Shows environmental responsability

  • What is the Buy Back Program?

    We buy back all the material processed thru the use of RecycleTech technology. The payment for processed material includes pickup and transportation*. 

    *Minimum quantities apply.

    COST OF DISPOSAL & WASTE HAULING TOTAL WEIGHT GENERATED IN LBS % OF EPS IN TOTAL WASTE VOLUME % OF EPS CORRESPONDING TO TOTTAL WEIGHT TOTAL WEIGHT OF EPS IN LBS
    		 SAVINGS PER YEAR
    		 ANNUAL INCOME OF PROCESSED EPS
    $80,879.51 1,014,720 40% 8% 81,177 $32,351.80 $10,553.01

    • Styrofoam Recycling Program started in JUNE 2009
    • Equipment used: XT-500
    • Total processed material in 1 year: 81,177 lbs
    • Total savings & incomes: $42,904.81