Background Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is an excellent insulator and packaging material, which is why it is still applied in Europe extensively and in huge volumes. However, EPS is environmentally damaging for several reasons. • Large storage space is necessary for the material, due to its great volume compared to its small mass. • It causes a rapid saturation of landfills, resulting in a demand for new landfills, with significant financial impacts. In traditional landfills, the dissolution procedure is quite slow, and produces hazardous by-products – mainly several types of poisonous gases. • During the procedure, recycling organic solvents were (and still are) applied, which cause serious damage to the environment. 2000 tons of EPS waste in produced in Hungary every year and since there is currently no economic or environmentally friendly technology for collecting and recycling ESP, the valuable material is either burned, which causes poisonous gas-emissions, or taken to landfills, causing their rapid saturation. Objectives The objective of the “EPS-Recycling” project is to introduce an innovative and environmentally friendly technology for collecting, shrinking and recycling EPS waste. A new solvent will make the shrinking of EPS possible without destroying its structure. The collection and transport costs will be more economical, and recovering the solvent will result in a high quality, recyclable base-material. Results The LIFE project did not start.