When recycling polystyrene, the first thing to do is to choose where it comes from. Some fishing and agricultural foam boxes require pre-treatment, i.e., dewatering and cleaning, which is a prerequisite to ensure that these foam wastes will not cause problems in the subsequent recycling process. Many people will wonder why these two types of foam need pretreatment.

Why do fish boxes need to be dewatered?

The principle of foam waste recycling is simple: by crushing and compacting, the air in the foam volume is reduced as much as possible, so that the volume of foam waste is reduced as much as possible, and the mass is greater.

Why Do Farm boxes need washing and pretreating?

The answer to this question is simple, because the specific use of agricultural boxes causes them to contain large amounts of sand and earth, and even in this case these impurities can cause problems in the subsequent processing of the compacted material.

Most intuitively, this reduces the purity of the compacted material and increases the likelihood of breakage. The presence of sand and mud greatly reduces adhesion and can cause problems for subsequent transport.

In addition, purity is also a decisive factor in the purchase price of compressed foam blocks, so if you want more compact foam blocks and higher selling prices, cleaning is required as a pre-treatment.

Do you need to purchase multiple foam recycling machines to handle the recycling of special materials?

We recommend a customized foam recycling line to you, you can provide us with your needs on the materials to be processed, and we can arrange a professional engineering team to design your foam recycling line according to your business scale.

Direct purchase of finished equipment can also be processed, but there may be some problems in the use of interfaces between different brands of different equipment, and subsequent adjustments are required, which is far inferior to customized foam recycling lines.

Finally, if you have any questions about foam recycling, please feel free to contact us, the foam recycling expert GREENMAX by your side.