The Polystyrene Recycling Alliance (PSRA), a North American coalition advancing scalable solutions to recycle polystyrene (PS) and expanded polystyrene (EPS), announced a new partnership with Brave Industries (Brave), a national consortium of independent recyclers with operations across the U.S. This partnership aims to expand the collection and recycling of all types of polystyrene, including rigid non-foam applications (HIPS/GPPS) and foam formats (EPS/XPS) for processing and delivery to responsible end markets for use in new products.
The initiative will launch in Denver, Colorado, and Baltimore, Maryland鈥攖wo key regions at the forefront of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) implementation. PSRA will support the project with grants for collection infrastructure that allow Brave to expand their reach and capacity for collecting and recycling all types of polystyrene. With Brave鈥檚 national infrastructure of plastics processing facilities in eight states, both organizations expect this partnership to eventually scale nationally.
鈥淎s we continue evolving toward a robust circular economy, it鈥檚 essential that all types of polystyrene can be collected and transformed into new products at responsible end markets, said Richard Shaw, Chair of the Polystyrene Recycling Alliance. 鈥淭his partnership with Brave Industries is a big step in that direction. Our ultimate goal is to make polystyrene widely recyclable, and we embrace every viable collection channel and recycling technology to accomplish that vision.鈥�
鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to partner with the Polystyrene Recycling Alliance to advance a forward-thinking, innovative approach to recycling all forms of polystyrene,鈥� said Adam Hill, Co-Founder of Brave Industries. 鈥淭he model we鈥檝e developed with PSRA demonstrates that scalable solutions already exist鈥攐nes that allow us to recycle more types of polystyrene and deliver recycled resins to responsible end markets across the states where we operate. This partnership marks the beginning of a broader vision for Brave Industries: to become one of the nation鈥檚 leading recyclers of polystyrene through coordinating underutilized recycling infrastructure that already exists.聽 We really just want to be the link that helps both sides succeed in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible, that鈥檚 what fixes these systems and it鈥檚 best achieved building these programs together.鈥�