Due to the lockdown policy in certain areas of the epidemic, many people sent gifts to their loved ones online in the past Christmas and New Year 2021, and a large amount of discarded EPS packing peanuts was left behind along with other holiday garbage. Actually, these packing peanuts that are discarded after one-time use can be 100% recycled.

What is Packing Peanuts?

Packing peanuts are loose-fill packing material that is used to prevent damage to fragile objects during a move or shipping process. It is called packing peanuts because this material is roughly the size and shape of a peanut, and usually made of polystyrene (EPS). As one of the EPS materials, EPS packaging peanuts are not biodegradable, and it takes hundreds of years to decompose in a landfill. While drop-off sites may accept them, those pesky packing peanuts may be hard to recycle if there is no professional EPS recycling machine equipped.

GREENMAX EPS Compactor

As mentioned above, packing peanuts is a loose-fill packing material made of EPS, which is easy to fill up the trash can and drift away with the wind to become white pollutants, so it needs to be processed by a special EPS recycling machine. GREENMAX EPS Compactor is specialized in compressing waste EPS lunch box, EPS packing peanuts, EPS packaging into blocks by rotating screw pressure.

Equipped with the screw and automatic hydraulic system, the waste packing peanuts can be pre-crushed in the storage bin of the EPS Compactor and then compacted into dense and uniform blocks with a volume reduction ratio of 50:1, greatly reducing the volume of waste EPS foam, therefore saving storage and transportation costs.

Recycling EPS packing peanuts is an environmentally friendly project that is easy to get started. You just collect the packing peanuts and send them to the special recycling center after receiving the goods purchased online，where an EPS Compactor is equipped.