Three Ways To Recycle Foam Coolers And Keep Our Beaches Cleaner
The choice to recycle is a much better one than simply tossing a foam cooler in the trash because a recycled one can be put to other valuable uses.
Here, we'll tell you three ways to do your part for the environment by recycling any you wish to discard.
With a 'post-BP oil spill' record-setting Spring Break season along the Emerald Coast of Florida, Gulf Coast of Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, news media and social network media images of trash-strewn beaches are causing quite a disturbance.
Some of those pictures being distributed on the internet show the typical aluminum cans, drink cartons, and fast food containers, but also the unsightly appearance of foam coolers carelessly left behind.
Of course, the cooler is the most noticeable element of this kind of environmental neglect because it is bulkier in size, despite its light weight.
Because they are more noticeable, they receive the brunt of negative reactions when the public sees their beaches trashed by inconsiderate people.
The truth is they do not deserve a negative reputation in this way because people do have a choice to recycle rather than discard, just as they have a choice (and responsibility) to leave nothing behind on the beach except footprints.
Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) coolers are completely recyclable for reuse and repurposing.
That combined with the fact that modern methods and resources available for recycling store-bought ones are at an all-time high, we now have the best opportunity ever to keep our environment clean and free from otherwise recyclable EPS foam debris.
Consider using any of the three following approaches in order to recycle foam coolers you wish to discard...
Trash Service Pick-up or Drop-Off The company that takes care of your trash on a regular basis should already have an EPS Foam Recycling Program in place and you should ask them specifically.
If they do, provide them specific instructions regarding yours in that you wish to have it recycled for reuse or repurposing.
Some companies will treat it as other recyclables and handle it separately, while others allow customers to drop off several types of EPS foam products, but especially the coolers since they are so easily recycled.
If your service does not include an EPS foam recycling program, ask them to consider looking into it because there are many resources available to them to start one for very little investment and they can even see some profit for their effort.
EPS Foam Recycling Stations Drop-Off The EPS Industry Alliance reports that there are well over 200 collection sites supporting these recycling efforts, and there may well be a company near you who accepts drop-offs to recycle coolers.
Do an internet web search or yellow pages search or you may even ask your trash service provider for a resource if they do not do the recycling themselves.
HINT: Always coordinate before dropping by to ensure that the company will have someone available to receive your drop-off.
NEVER, EVER leave coolers or any other form of trash for these folks to have to clean up.
The last thing any of us need is for companies to discontinue their recycling efforts due to lack of consideration.
EPS Foam Recycling Stations - Mail In Many recycling sources accept mail-in as an option.
If your trash service provider does not offer cooler recycling, and if you are too far away from a drop-off station, then you are encouraged to simply search for a company that will take your recyclable through the mail.
Certainly, you'll want to use the cheapest possible postal rate, but the good feeling you get from doing your part for the environment will be well worth it.
Because foam coolers are recyclable, throwing them away in the trash is not the best available choice.
Further, none of us like to show up at the beach and have to weave our way around garbage carelessly left behind.
So, if you happen to purchase a foam cooler and find that you cannot take it with you to reuse, please take advantage of the three options mentioned in this article so that your foam cooler will be put to better use.
Here, we'll tell you three ways to do your part for the environment by recycling any you wish to discard.
With a 'post-BP oil spill' record-setting Spring Break season along the Emerald Coast of Florida, Gulf Coast of Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, news media and social network media images of trash-strewn beaches are causing quite a disturbance.
Some of those pictures being distributed on the internet show the typical aluminum cans, drink cartons, and fast food containers, but also the unsightly appearance of foam coolers carelessly left behind.
Of course, the cooler is the most noticeable element of this kind of environmental neglect because it is bulkier in size, despite its light weight.
Because they are more noticeable, they receive the brunt of negative reactions when the public sees their beaches trashed by inconsiderate people.
The truth is they do not deserve a negative reputation in this way because people do have a choice to recycle rather than discard, just as they have a choice (and responsibility) to leave nothing behind on the beach except footprints.
Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) coolers are completely recyclable for reuse and repurposing.
That combined with the fact that modern methods and resources available for recycling store-bought ones are at an all-time high, we now have the best opportunity ever to keep our environment clean and free from otherwise recyclable EPS foam debris.
Consider using any of the three following approaches in order to recycle foam coolers you wish to discard...
Trash Service Pick-up or Drop-Off The company that takes care of your trash on a regular basis should already have an EPS Foam Recycling Program in place and you should ask them specifically.
If they do, provide them specific instructions regarding yours in that you wish to have it recycled for reuse or repurposing.
Some companies will treat it as other recyclables and handle it separately, while others allow customers to drop off several types of EPS foam products, but especially the coolers since they are so easily recycled.
If your service does not include an EPS foam recycling program, ask them to consider looking into it because there are many resources available to them to start one for very little investment and they can even see some profit for their effort.
EPS Foam Recycling Stations Drop-Off The EPS Industry Alliance reports that there are well over 200 collection sites supporting these recycling efforts, and there may well be a company near you who accepts drop-offs to recycle coolers.
Do an internet web search or yellow pages search or you may even ask your trash service provider for a resource if they do not do the recycling themselves.
HINT: Always coordinate before dropping by to ensure that the company will have someone available to receive your drop-off.
NEVER, EVER leave coolers or any other form of trash for these folks to have to clean up.
The last thing any of us need is for companies to discontinue their recycling efforts due to lack of consideration.
EPS Foam Recycling Stations - Mail In Many recycling sources accept mail-in as an option.
If your trash service provider does not offer cooler recycling, and if you are too far away from a drop-off station, then you are encouraged to simply search for a company that will take your recyclable through the mail.
Certainly, you'll want to use the cheapest possible postal rate, but the good feeling you get from doing your part for the environment will be well worth it.
Because foam coolers are recyclable, throwing them away in the trash is not the best available choice.
Further, none of us like to show up at the beach and have to weave our way around garbage carelessly left behind.
So, if you happen to purchase a foam cooler and find that you cannot take it with you to reuse, please take advantage of the three options mentioned in this article so that your foam cooler will be put to better use.
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