In summer, many people like to go to the beach, enjoy the sunshine, have some coffee or delicious meal, swim in the sea, these are very nice. However, there are a lot of trash on the beach thrown away when people finishing their meal. Such as plastic bags, coffee cups, especially the disposable polystyrene foam food containers. Seabirds and marine life mistake it for food when it blows into the sea which to the detriment of the ocean.
Reportedly, Hollywood approved a ban on polystyrene packaging in public places on Wednesday, including city parks and beaches. In Hollywood, the idea is to get restaurants downtown and at the beach to stop using it, Mayor Josh Levy said.
Polystyrene usually takes hundreds of years to decompose and has been banned by Miami Beach, New York and San Francisco. Its am to protect marine life and environment. But it is not the ultimate solution to ban the use of polystyrene packaging.
As we known it is expensive to clean up polystyrene litter, send it to transport plants are not economical because the transport fee is not cheap. Recycling polystyrene is an important step to help solve the problem of littering and pollution.
Considering polystyrene foam being lightweight and bulky, it has to be compressed by a recycling compactor. GREENMAX Apolo series compactor is such kind of compactor which can crush the loss polystyrene foam into pieces and use its compact system to compress the foam into EPS blocks. And the blocks just need a little space. Because the compactor works at a ratio of 50:1. This pressed EPS blocks can be reused make other products.
From beach trash to recyclable materials, the rate of polystyrene recycling is rising. Let’s protect our ocean and environment hand by hand.