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Title: Re: [GreenYes] City business recycles Styrofoam
Hi David
~
Of course, it is
reuse (a higher and better use than recycling). The article was written by
someone who is not directly involved in the field.
Best wishes for a
wonderful 2008 !
John
Can I just ask: is this recycling
or reuse? This is great, and certainly others could follow suit, especially
maybe the computer industry. But I’m just wondering about the media’s improper
use of terminology...or maybe I’ve just missed too many NRC
conferences.
In this case, with polystyrenes, I’m sure many
GreenListers recall the old days of polystyrene recycling (NPRC??) and how the
industry invested all this money in processing and end-markets and as soon as
they’d turned it into a non-issue, they packed up and went off into the
sunset. I actually thought this article might be the re-emergence of that old
technology.
Db
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David Biddle, Executive Director
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Greater
Philadelphia Commercial Recycling Council
P.O. Box 4037
Philadelphia, PA
19118
215-247-3090 (desk)
215-432-8225 (cell)
<http://www.gpcrc.com>
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on
1/2/08 11:54 AM, Reindl, John at Reindl@no.address
wrote:
I
thought that you might like to see this excerpt from a local newspaper
article about recycling polystyrene foam, as well as have the web page for
the machine that this company uses to form shipping bits from foam
blocks.
Best wishes,
John
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City business recycles
Styrofoam
By Ron
Seely
If you 're frustrated trying to get rid of all the
Styrofoam packing that now resides in your garage or basement after all the
Christmas gifts were unwrapped, imagine having an entire store full of the
pesky stuff.
Just about everything sold at Home Concept off the
Beltline comes cushioned in blocks of the hard foam packing. Three months
ago, Home Concept founder and president Steve Brielmaier realized that about
80 percent of the space in the trash bins behind the store was taken up by
Styrofoam.
.
.
.
The secret to Brielmaier 's recycling effort is a
surprisingly simple machine that he purchased from a company called Demand
Products in Alpharetta, Ga. The device is a small square frame with
interlaced wires that are heated with an electrical current. Broken-up
blocks of Styrofoam are fed through the hot-wire grid of 1-inch squares,
cutting into the foam. The foam bits are then used as packing for the lamps
that are shipped through LampsUSA, Brielmaier 's Internet lamp
business.
(full story is at http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/265008)
The cutting
machine can be seen on the Internet at http://www.demandproducts.com/recyk.html
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