Styrofoam Recycling Machines : DigInfo
diginfo – movie.diginfo.tv Pana-Chemical exhibited two styrofoam recycling machines at the 2008 New Environmental Expo. The Clean Heat Packer is a machine suited for use in supermarkets, department stores, factories, and waste treatment facilities. When the machine detects that styrofoam has been thrown into the hopper, it reduces the volume of the waste to 1 the original size. From there, Pana-Chemical will purchase and reuse the styrofoam waste that has been reduced in volume. The Clean Heat Packer is now being used in over 1000 locations throughout Japan. The large Ecolobo-Ace styrofoam recycling machine that is now being introduced in the reclaimed land market uses frictional heat instead. Because of this, degradation of raw materials is extremely low so it is very easy to recycle the materials in the next process. The nationwide recycling network cultivated for styrofoam plastic and other plastic waste over the past 30 years now includes the use of Pana-Chemical equipment by 2000 companies throughout Japan, and Pana-Chemical now handles 7000 tons of plastic waste per month.
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Great technology !
so old
Damn, Japan is the only country with enough brains to invent and use their eco friendly technology.Unlike the others we know.
In Japan, residents separate their trash into burnable and non-burnable (Tokyo). In places like Okinawa, Japan it is separated into burnable, non-burnable, metalic, pet bottle (plastic bottle), and batteries. With the plastic pet bottles, they even remove the labels and compress the bottles so it is easier to pick up from the curb and process.
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