A Quick Tip by QualityBilt

So what is a responsible warehouse manager to do with all their styrofoam? Torn between the cost of disposal and the environmental issues, most choose to just throw it into the trash to be hauled away and thrown into the land fill. But that isn't cheap either. Styrofoam fills roll of containers quickly and is expensive to haul away. Most give up and fatalistically think "it is what it is!"

Well, it isn't what it is! There are Styrofoam recyclers who will buy back the Styrofoam and recycle it into eye glass frames, picture frames, or even bicycle helmets if you can just find a way to ship it inexpensively. Fill a truck with 5,000 lbs of Styrofoam and the cost per pound is prohibitive. But fill a truck with 30,000 or 40,000 lbs of Styrofoam and the cost per pound is well worth the shipping cost. But how to reduce the volume is the trick. Styrofoam densifiers are the solution. New technology allows for the Styrofoam to be melted into "patties" which feel more like porcelain than Styrofoam. Densifiers reduce the volume up to 90 to 1 and make shipping affordable.