In recently years, many fast food shops and coffee shops has offered polystyrene beverages cups, such as Starbucks, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald’s and so on, as well as most of the milk-tea shops along the streets also has provided drink with polystyrene cups.
The aim of using polystyrene cups is to lock the temperature of coffee. However, the thin layer of polyethylene plastic film is difficult to separate, so some recyclers do not willing to recycle it. Even if the polystyrene cups can be broken and mixed with plastic to make low-grade cartons, which are used in shoeboxes, fruit boxes and other products.
So, when these cups are discarded, they are ultimately be incinerated, which not only cause pollution, but also waste these resources. Therefore, some businesses are trying to reduce the use of disposable polystyrene cups, or using other environmentally friendly polystyrene cups to replace them.
Therefore, the recycling of disposable polystyrene cups has become an important way to solve the pollution it produces. About the problems of polystyrene cups recycling which has mentioned above, a melting machine, can help you solve these problems.
The GREENMAX densifier is the machine that can crush these cups first, and then after heating and extruding, these cups will become the densified ingots, with the volume reduction ratio up to 90:1. Because of it, the melted cups are easy to transport and will have little pollution on the environment. Then, we can reuse the resources to make other products. It provides great convenience to the recyclers.