Currently, the majority of polystyrene products are not recycled because of a lack of consumer awareness regarding suitable recycling facilities and collection methods. Expanded polystyrene scrap can be easily added to products such as EPS insulation sheets and other EPS materials for construction applications. Commonly, manufacturers cannot obtain sufficient scrap because of the aforementioned collection issues. When it is not used to make more EPS, foam scrap can be turned into clothes hangers, park benches, flower pots, toys, rulers, stapler bodies, seedling containers, picture frames, and architectural molding from recycled PS.

All of which tells us that while admittedly not a health-food, our Cup Noodles are a low-cost, nutricious and small-footprint portable lunch! Or it would be and that begs the question: Polystyrene is one of our most widely used kinds of plastic, and one of the plastics most readily recycled into thousands if in-demand uses. If Bruce County is really so adamant about reducing landfill and patrolling curbside waste, I'm just curious: why then is Recycle-6 skipped in the list of acceptable collection materials?