Nowadays, polystyrene has won its popularity as we can see Polystyrene products in our daily life everywhere for the feature of lightweight, impact resistant, heat and noise insulation. However, polystyrene is non-degradable and can only stay in landfill forever if people do not take actions to recycle it.
Polystyrene, which is most often seen in the form of disposable food containers, insulating materials and packing materials, is a petroleum-based plastic, of which 98% is air, so most of the polystyrene products seem very bulky, which well explain that the polystyrene foam is good shockproof material.
Polystyrene can be in landfills for an unlimited period of time, taking at least 500 years and even much longer to decompose, causing great pollution to the environment. On the contrary, Polystyrene recycling is clearly a much better solution. Not only can it improve the utilization of the polystyrene, but also reduce the destruction of the environment.
Polystyrene recycling is to use professional machines to reduce the foam volume for the first step as the smaller polystyrene is more convenient for recycling and reusing and then it can help save much storage space and transport costs.
Polystyrene disposal machines like compactors and densifiers can both reduce the foam volume with a high ratio. The compressed or densified blocks or ingots can be easily stocked on the pallets and sold to be recycled to make other plastic products.
For those who have large quantities of loose polystyrene foams, a few tons of blocks or ingots a month can possibly cover their costs, and these materials are facing a good market in the world’s raw material market. Hence, recycling is really a good polystyrene disposal method than landfill.