Two weeks ago, the Australian federal government announced it would bring forward a planned phase-out of expanded polystyrene for products bought by consumers from 2025 to 2022. This ban shows the Australian government’s determination to eliminate EPS white pollution, but will pollution be reduced if Australia bans the use of EPS? This is a question worthy of in-depth discussion.
EPS has appeared in the public eye as a widely used packaging material. From disposable EPS lunch boxes, express packaging materials, and insulation boards for construction, it can be said that people’s daily life cannot be separated from EPS. However, most EPS materials cannot escape the fate of being discarded after one-time use, resulting in the accumulation of a large amount of EPS waste, which is then drifted everywhere in the wind and become white pollution that everyone spurns.
Can the banning of EPS products fundamentally solve the pollution problem? Things are not as simple as imagined. For example, for many catering industry owners in Australia, a one-size-fits-all ban on eps products will greatly increase their operating costs, and there is no economically applicable material that can replace EPS food containers in a short period of time. During the COVID-19, it is the low-price EPS material that helps restaurant owners develop fast food delivery services and survive. Assuming that the ban is issued, it is doubtless a worry for them. From the perspective of economic development, EPS recycling is a better way to help reduce pollution.
Just equipped with a professional EPS Compactor, the waste EPS food trays and cups or other foam products could immediately become dense ingots that can be sold to make a profit. EPS Compactor is an EPS recycling machine specialized in compressing waste EPS lunch box, XPS insulation board, EPP, etc. into blocks by rotating screw pressure, which can compress bulky waste EPS into dense and uniform blocks with a volume reduction ratio of 50:1, greatly reducing the volume of waste foam, therefore saving storage and transportation costs.
Besides, the EPS blocks compressed by the EPS Compactor can be further processed into photo frames and other products to be sold on markets, gaining their new life without any pollution. EPS Compactor can turn discarded EPS into treasure, which is more in line with the needs of today’s environmental protection and the development of circular economy than the prohibition of eps products. If you want to start your EPS recycling business, just start by choosing a professional EPS recycling machine.