Global plastic production exceeds 400 million tons per year, while plastic waste is increasing rapidly. In fact, most discussions about plastic waste are one-sided.
“Plastic is not the root of the problem when you think about it,” says British materials scientist Miodownik. Miodownik stressed that we need to be bolder and more ambitious in recycling content.
Almost all plastics can be recycled, the difference is the difficulty of recycling. Disposable plastic straws and plastic bags are also being banned by countries because of the difficulty in recycling. However, for plastics that can be easily recycled, such as fish boxes, egg trays, etc., put them in a recycling machine instead of the ocean.
California-based INTCO Recycling specializes in selling specialty polystyrene recycling machines, which are divided into hot melt machines and cold press machines. For polystyrene products, recycling technology has matured. A hot melt machine can compress polystyrene waste at a high compression ratio of 90:1, which is equivalent to compressing the expanded marshmallow into hard marble and producing recycled polystyrene ingot.
Recycled polystyrene ingot is the first step in recycling. It is important to know that recycling means giving polystyrene waste a second life. INTCO promises to machine customers that it will acquire polystyrene ingot for the production of photo frames for real recycling.
Polystyrene recycling is not the only way to solve plastics, but it is definitely the most cost-effective way.