Building from Landfill ♻️ 

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• EPS is approximately 1/3 of landfill by volume; with 95% of the space it occupies being air it is the very definition of a waste of space. EPS is not what The Igloo is made of, we use XPS  . EPS cannot be recycled back into EPS but it can be recycled back into S (styrene) - and then into PS.  A lego brick is made from a type of styrene  - if you can imagine scaling one up; even the density - then you have imagined our igloo. 

• However the EU banned itself from doing this due to quite serious safety reasons; Nevertheless our partners in Harrogate collect EPS from local businesses and crush it to  50 times its original density - these are called "EPS briquettes". 

• S; is an organic compound - one of the plastics that is found naturally an an oil in food. If you have eat some peanuts with  and a coffee today. then you ate some styrene.  Like rubber; aspirin and cinnamon it's related to tree bark. 

• The use of alcohols to depolymerise EPS is not illegal in the UK anymore and our partners take in vast quantities of crushed EPS on a daily basis. This is one of the reasons we can keep the cost of igloos so affordable. 

• Our partners in Selby use our supply of Styrene and turn it into their popular product King Span Greenguard; an denser, closed cell version of your usual packaging foam; Its a waterproof foam; its used for wet-rooms and exterior insulation, people have even made kayaks and catamarans out of it.