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Old 08-04-11, 11:23 AM   #1
menaus2
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Lightbulb Recycled Expanded Polystyrene foam board experiment

Hi everyone,

I've recently been toying with the idea of utilizing waste foam packaging and reprocessing it as an inexpensive, high performance insulation material. There is an abundance of the stuff everywhere, especially furniture stores and such and it would make a lot of sense for the energy retrofit plans i have for my apartment units.

Technically speaking, I'm thinking of breaking down the foam forms into smaller pieces (maybe 1in diameter chunks) or beads and laying them down in a panel form made out of scrap wood. I'd then use cans of spray foam to bind it all together.

I'm gonna be doing some small batch experiments, and put the results up soon. Hopefully I can come up with an economical process that scales up nicely. Thats about the extent of it so far, but any suggestions or advice when working with the materials would be greatly appreciated!

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