Polystyrene foam is used in a variety of items. If you have ever ordered take-out food or drinks, the containers and cups holding them and keeping them either hot or cold are made from polystyrene.
In addition, many food items, such as meat, fish and other seafood, are stored on polystyrene trays in grocery store. Polystyrene foam is also a common packing material in the form of packing peanuts, an insulation material in homes and padding material in many helmets, such as bicycle and motorcycle helmets.
Because Polystyrene foam is a plastic product, manufacturing new Polystyrene foam products uses non-renewable fossil fuel resources. As a plastic, it also degrades slowly and is highly flammable.
Marine life, such as marine mammals, marine birds and turtles, also mistake Polystyrene foam as food and then die for either starvation or choke when they swallow pieces of it. Polystyrene foam is lightweight, it is only 0.01 percent of our solid household waste, but the volume of Polystyrene foam going to our landfills causes it to fill landfills with a product that lasts for centuries.
So polystyrene recycling is need to be conducted more widely. And the polystyrene recycling solutions can supplied by many plastic recyclers. They would use professional machines to compress or melt the foam into small volume materials which is good for reusing to make other plastic materials. So just turn to them for help if you want.