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Foam Recycling

If you’re looking to recycle some of your foam scraps or utilize recycled foam in your next project, this page lists many available resources and is always being updated with more.

If you want to use scraps or discarded pieces of foam in your project, Check out this page for inspiration.

Enstyro Styrofoam Recycling converts scrap foam into lightweight aggregate with innovative new uses.

MarBorg and the nonprofit Heal the Ocean started a foam recycling program in Santa Barbara County. If you’d like to learn more about giving your foam scraps to them, click here.

For information about polystyrene recycling collection in the US and Canada, please click here. Check out their Youtube channel for videos with more information here.

The Association of Plastic Recyclers has a section on their website with information and resources for recycling Polystyrene foam.

Blue Goblin offers innovative, environmentally-sound solutions for recycling and disposal of hard-to-recycle and currently-unrecycled waste products, specializing in many types of Styrofoam and plastic foams.

INTCO Manufactures and Sells GREENMAX EPS(Styrofoam) Compactors/Densifiers and EPS Recycling Machines/Equipment, Buys Back Compressed EPS Blocks/Ingots all over the world, and turns them into frame products.

The Perfect Block is an Arizona company that recycles EPS foam to create insulated composite concrete forms (or ICCFs) which can be used as building materials that are weather, fire, and pest resistant.

EPS Industry Alliance is an EPS foam manufacturer which emphasizes EPS recycling and sustainability. They use recycled EPS foam in many of their products, such as packaging inserts, insulation, medical supply boxes, and more. Check out their website to find an EPS recycling center near you!

Styro-Go is a Canada-based company that uses custom trucks with self-contained units for cost-efficient mobile recycling. They process the foam into bricks which can then be shipped to a recycler.

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