Target Recycling collects post-industrial polystyrene from businesses across the GTA and Ontario: rigid PS, injection-moulded parts and rejects, sprue and runners, HIPS sheet and thermoformed offcuts, protective packaging and inserts, and clean purge, plus expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam. Densified or baled PS moves efficiently, and clean material earns a rebate instead of a tipping fee. Everything runs under an ISO 14001 certified program, with documented weights and a documented destination on every load.
Injection Moulders & Thermoformers
Appliance & Electronics Packagers
Food & Consumer Goods Producers
Yes. Rigid polystyrene from an industrial setting is recyclable, and we take it along with expanded foam from businesses. Its reputation comes from the household stream, where it arrives contaminated, mixed and too bulky to move economically. Clean post-industrial PS, sorted by the process that made it, recovers well, and densified or baled PS moves efficiently.
Every program starts with a free on-site visit and recycling audit, followed by a documented plan built around your facility, your materials and your compliance targets. Because PS is light and bulky, the plan looks at densifying or baling first, then at rolling it into the same pickups as your other resins. Rigid PS is processed at our Ajax, Ontario facility, where material is ground to specification, with pelletizing at our Simcoe facility, and every load carries documented weights, diversion figures and destination. If you would rather keep ownership of the material and have it returned as regrind or pellets, our toll grinding and pelletizing service runs the same steps for a fee.
Rigid polystyrene, injection-moulded parts and rejects, sprue and runners, HIPS sheet and thermoformed offcuts, protective packaging and inserts, and clean purge. In gaylords, super sacks, bales, or loose on skids. Single plants and multi-plant networks run on the same program, with the same specs and the same reporting at every location.
| PS form | Where it comes from | Grading and handling |
|---|---|---|
| Rigid PS, moulded parts and rejects | Injection moulding and off-spec runs | Clean, sorted loads earn a rebate. |
| Sprue, runners and clean purge | Generated at the press | Kept clean and out of floor sweepings. |
| HIPS sheet and thermoformed offcuts | Sheet extrusion and thermoforming | Baled, in gaylords or super sacks, or loose on skids. |
| Protective packaging and inserts | Inbound parts and product packaging | Light and bulky; densified or baled loads move best. |
| EPS foam (styrofoam) | Protective packaging from receiving | Mostly air; compacted or densified loads move best. |
We take expanded polystyrene (EPS), the foam most people call styrofoam, from businesses across Ontario, including foam protective packaging and inserts. Foam is mostly air, so compacted or densified loads move best, and the site walk shows which of your locations generate enough to route. It rides the same pickups as your other PS and resin streams, with documented weights, diversion figures and destination on every load.
Injection moulders and thermoformers, appliance and electronics packagers, and food and consumer goods producers generate the most polystyrene scrap. The manufacturers we work with across Ontario run it through the same program as their other resins: HDPE, PP, PET, LDPE and film and PVC, with one point of contact and one audit trail across all of them.
PS is light and bulky, so transport rather than material value drives the economics. Densified or baled PS moves efficiently and earns a rebate on clean material. What most of our clients care about more is that it stops being an untracked line in general waste: every load carries documented weights and a documented destination, so PS tonnage counts toward ESG disclosure and corporate landfill-free reporting rather than quietly working against it.
Few operations generate enough PS to justify a standalone route, but almost every one of them generates it alongside PET, HDPE, LDPE, and PP. Rolled into a single program it rides the same schedule as your other streams, arrives under the same specs, and reports in the same format, so you are not paying a separate vendor and separate paperwork for the smallest line on the list.
PS is the clearest case for consolidating across locations. A single plant often does not produce enough to justify a dedicated route, but nine plants do, and the same volume that looks marginal site by site becomes a real diverted tonnage once it is aggregated. We run one PS program across your Ontario locations, with a single point of contact and consistent specs and reporting, so material that would otherwise be landfilled at each site individually gets recovered and documented.
PS runs under the same ISO:14001-certified system as every other stream we handle, with documented weights, diversion reporting, and destination on every load. Your sustainability team gets numbers backed by paper for ESG and corporate disclosure. Your EHS team gets what it needs for O. Reg. 102/94 waste audits. Branded or recalled PS routes through certified secured destruction with a certificate of destruction on every job.
We are used to being onboarded properly rather than informally. We operate under an ISO:14001-certified system, are registered under the Government of Canada Controlled Goods Program, and work to a signed service agreement, with the documentation behind our diversion reporting available to your compliance team. Tell us what your supplier qualification process requires, from insurance certificates to safety documentation, and we will work through it early rather than holding up your sourcing calendar.
Gaylords, super sacks, compactors, or bins, placed where your lines actually produce scrap, with scheduled pickups that match your production cadence. One vendor, one point of contact, one audit trail. Explore plastic recycling in Toronto, Mississauga, or Hamilton.
Polystyrene is one stream in our industrial plastic recycling solutions for Ontario manufacturers, run alongside HDPE, PP, PET and LDPE under one contract. If PS is only part of what leaves your plant, our industrial recycling program covers the rest of the site: waste audits, diversion planning and secured destruction alongside the plastic rebates.
Tell us what you have and roughly how much, and we reply within 48 hours.
Why Choose Target Recycling?
Polystyrene is the stream most operations assume is unrecyclable, so it is written off and landfilled without anyone checking. Rigid PS and post-industrial PS scrap are recoverable and we take them. The real constraint is density rather than material: PS is light and bulky, which is exactly why it works best consolidated across sites instead of assessed plant by plant. We have run post-industrial programs for 27 years for operations including Nestlé Canada, Ford, and Apotex.
Rebates that turn plastic scrap into revenue, trusted by 500+ Canadian businesses.
ISO:14001 certified for compliance and environmental responsibility.
Certificates of destruction and O. Reg. 102/94 audit support for full compliance.
Yes, and PS is the stream where consolidating helps most. Volume that looks marginal at one plant becomes a workable route once it is aggregated across your network, under one program with one point of contact and consistent reporting.
Rigid polystyrene, moulded parts and rejects, sprue and runners, HIPS sheet and thermoformed offcuts, protective packaging and inserts, and clean purge. In gaylords, super sacks, bales, or loose on skids.
Documented weights, diversion figures, and destination on every load, with consistent reporting across your sites. It is built to support ESG and corporate sustainability disclosure and an O. Reg. 102/94 waste audit without reconstruction work at year end.
Yes. We take expanded polystyrene (EPS), the foam most people call styrofoam, from businesses across Ontario, including foam protective packaging and inserts. Foam is mostly air, so compacted or densified loads move best, and we look at how each site handles it during the site walk.
Rigid polystyrene from an industrial setting is recyclable and we take it. Its reputation comes from expanded foam and the household stream, where it arrives contaminated, mixed, and too bulky to move economically. Clean post-industrial PS is a different material in practice.
Minimum load is 8,000 lbs. Below that, trucking fees apply.
Yes. Clean PS earns a rebate rather than a tipping fee. PS is light and bulky, so transport drives the economics, and densified or baled material moves most efficiently.
Yes. Toll grinding means we grind your material to your specification for a fee and return it, so you keep ownership throughout and avoid buying grinding equipment. PS is ground at our Ajax facility and pelletized in Simcoe, and the material comes back as regrind or pellets with clear documentation.
Rigid PS goes to our processing facility in Ajax, Ontario, with pelletizing at our Simcoe facility. Every load, foam included, carries documented weights and a documented destination, so the tonnage stands up in an ESG disclosure, a corporate landfill-free audit or an O. Reg. 102/94 waste audit.
Head Office:
109 McMaster Avenue, Ajax, Ontario
L1S 2E6
Processing Facility:
106 McMaster Avenue, Ajax, Ontario
L1S 2E7
Pelletizing Facility:
147 First Avenue West, Simcoe, Ontario
N3Y 2P6
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