Recycling Styrofoam

How Styrofoam Can Be Recycled

November 3, 2012
Recycling Styrofoam can work.  Here's the styrofoam made into 16" x 4' blocks of insulation.

After moving out of the mountains to the city, because I saw Styrofoam waste almost everywhere I looked, I decided to try to collect and do something with it. This is a story of how I recycled Styrofoam for the purpose of building insulation.  (I want to make a passive solar shed.) This topic...
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How Styrofoam is Used in Building

October 27, 2012
This polystyrene SIP shows the chase for the electricity within the insulation.

I wanted to understand how expanded polystyrene (EPS) products are being currently used in building structures to make them more efficient.  This post is part of How Styrofoam Can Be Recycled for Building.   This post looks at insulated concrete forms (ICFs), structured insulated panel systems (SIPS), and sheets of EPS insulation that are...
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What is Styrofoam?

October 20, 2012
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This is the start of “Why I did a Styrofoam Recycling – Building Project“. - After moving out of the mountains to the Front Range (Denver-Boulder area), I was amazed at the amount of waste generated in cities. I was starting to get a little depressed, then instead decided to do something about it....
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