Polystyrene, can be seen everywhere in our life. It is a product made from petroleum, making it difficult to thoroughly degrade.
Polystyrene owes its versatility to the fact that it is very light, malleable and is a great insulator, which is why it has always been used for things like coolers, coffee cups, foam food containers, and packing materials used to ship electronics, furniture and other fragile items.
Although you know that polystyrene has a wide variety of application, you might not even realize that waste polystyrene foam is harmful to our environment.
Because it is very light, which can cause it to blow away and break down into smaller pieces. It is detrimental to marine life after entering the ocean, accidentally ingested by fish and other marine animals.
Furthermore, polystyrene is also bulky, which makes polystyrene disposal difficult. Many of us thought that polystyrene has to be taken to the centralized plant to be recycled, but it will add more cost to the process, the expensive transportation makes polystyrene recycling not easy.
To recycle polystyrene with advanced technology is the most high-efficiency recycling way. A polystyrene compactor from GREENMAX can easily reduce the volume of waste foam up to 50:1, the machine shred the bulk foam into dense blocks for the convenience of transportation, and moreover, this recycling way can save the cost of transportation.
Polystyrene recycling should be taken seriously by people, which can reducing the waste, and it is good to the environment and marine life.