Tag: Recycling Cases

Maroondah City Council in Victoria provides residents with dedicated routes for recycling clean EPS packaging that is not accepted in ordinary household recycling bins. The council includes polystyrene packaging in its periodic “E-waste + more” collection events. Accepted material includes clean protective foam from products such as televisions, dishwashers and ovens, with residents asked to

Japan’s expanded polystyrene association, JEPSA, has published its national figures for how used EPS was treated in 2025. The association reports that 49.2% was materially recycled, including 0.7 percentage points attributed to chemical recycling. A further 42.9% underwent energy recovery, while 7.9% was reported as other disposal or non-utilisation. Material recycling and energy recovery are

Residents in Sydney’s Northern Beaches have access to recurring collection of expanded polystyrene packaging through the Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre. Northern Beaches Council runs monthly collection days for rigid, clean, white and dry EPS used to protect appliances and electronics. Domestic quantities can be delivered free of charge, while contaminated EPS — including material containing

From 1 October 2026, Alberta expanded its residential recycling system to accept additional packaging materials, including foam packaging, across the province. The change is part of Alberta’s Extended Producer Responsibility system for packaging and paper products. Circular Materials, the Producer Responsibility Organization responsible for Alberta’s programme, says residents can now recycle the same expanded range

A new peer-reviewed study mapping expanded polystyrene flows in China shows that recycled EPS is becoming a significant source of material supply. Published in Cell Reports Sustainability in September 2026, the study reports that China produced 3.94 million tonnes of EPS in 2023. Recycled EPS accounted for 28% of total EPS supply, up from 25%

The U.S. Plastics Pact has removed expanded polystyrene transport packaging from its Problematic & Unnecessary Materials List after reviewing evidence of recycling at scale. It is the first packaging format to be removed from the list since its establishment. The decision applies specifically to moulded EPS transport packaging used to protect durable goods, temperature-sensitive products

Chile’s Aysén region is one of the centres of the country’s salmon-farming industry. It is also becoming home to more than one route for recovering expanded polystyrene used by the sector. One region, two recycling routes In July 2026, Puerto Aysén-based Ceresal completed a shipment of 30 tonnes of compacted recovered EPS to buyers in

Residents of Tacoma, Washington, can once again recycle clean EPS protective packaging at the city’s recycling centre after a new densifier restored a service that had been unavailable for several years. Tacoma announced the replacement equipment in May 2026. The previous densifier had been out of service since 2022, and the city decided that replacement