Comments on: Top Ten Styrofoam Recycling Tips

By: San Diego movers

San Diego movers — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:35:30 +0000

My city recently began a recycling program, and so far it is going quite well. I do my best to recycle as frequently as possible. Thanks for these tips.

By: Golden Beach homes

Golden Beach homes — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:58:06 +0000

Excellent share, burning is not a solution and yes it’s only harmful for the environment and for the health of near-by residents as well. Re-using is one solution but if you’ve decided to recycle it, make sure the facilities have proper equipment to deal with it.

By: nilpagol

nilpagol — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:22:23 +0000

pls give a perfect solusion for recycling wastage styropor in our country bangladesh.

By: 4o lcd hdtv

4o lcd hdtv — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:06:35 +0000

Great tips. thanks

By: getplaning

getplaning — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:46:48 +0000

Put some acetone in a spray bottle and spray it onto the styrofoam. The acetone will dissolve the styrofoam down to about 3% of its original volume. It can then be recycled with other plastics.

By: David White

David White — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:24:24 +0000

It’s amazing how even after all this environmental consciousness, we still don’t have even the least useful common ability to recycle (for our own, personal use) stuff like expanded polystyrene. And NO, taking it all to a recycling center isn’t the solution since I don’t get ANY personal gain out of it. Why doesn’t the recycling center have a place to drop off EPS, and a place to pick up EPS blocks at the same facility? So I can just pay a small fee for effectively re-forming my submitted materials?

Now, I have to figure out how to re-use styrofoam BY MYSELF, since none of these so-called capitalists and hobbyists have worked on a common solution. Apparently, capitalists and hobbyists in the West have preferred spending their time daytrading and doing other worthless stuff with information technology, instead of using their vast educations to arrive at physical solutions for our materials streams. What a WASTE!

By: lavina arni

lavina arni — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:47:57 +0000

hi im a civil engineering student and where having a research about recycling the used styrofoam. we decided to used it as an isulator for the room in our school because we cant feel the cold of our aircon in our room if were using it..but our problem is we dont have a machine to recycle the styrofoam..do u have an alternative for it? pls help us we really need your advise…

By: Eviroguy

Eviroguy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:18:23 +0000

Any ideas to promote removal of water from waterlogged styrofoam?

By: GreenGuy

GreenGuy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:08:36 +0000

I ordered a gallon of d-Limonene “Orange Terpene” from GreenTerpene.com. It is amazing how citrus peel extract breaks down polystyrene. I am so glad i found a way to breakdown all of the packaging we otherwise would send to a landfill.

Also, the stuff cleans like a dream. You should definitely try it out!

By: care-n

care-n — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:06:09 +0000

I thought I didn’t have much styrofoam waste until I began collecting a week’s worth to be sure. It is amazing how much styrofoam is used in fast-food chains.

If enough of us were to write to restaurants such as Sonic (who is a famous user of styrofoam to hold their wonderful ice!) and implore them to institute a recycling program within their locations, this would keep some of this toxic material out of landfills.

blessings.