Polystyrene packaging recycling

A company contracted by a major high street department store to manage the collection and recycling of its customers' unwanted white goods and the polystyrene packaging from new items, is reported to be saving hundreds of pounds a week after installing a Greenbank compactor.

Wastecare was asked if, as well as collecting all unwanted white goods, it could find a better way of dealing with the polystyrene packaging than sending it to landfill as the stores had been doing.

Greenbank was chosen as its preferred supplier after it actively drew up a solution by custombuilding a conveyor fed compactor especially for the application. It compacts 370kg of polystyrene into a pallet, as opposed to the 250kg pallets of its predecessor, which is then sold on to a processor for recycling.