A survey released this year by Cleanaway on the recycling habits of Australians shows that people care about recycling - 89% of Australians say it's very important. But only 25% of us are doing it right. Cleanaway is one of Australia's well-established waste recycling and resource companies. In the last financial year, Cleanaway diverted 538 kg of plastic, steel and paper waste from landfill, which will soon be returned to the market as new products.

The reason why Cleanaway has done so well is because the company has a strong sense of recycling and recognizes the right way to recycle. For example, polystyrene, a type of plastic, was mainly disposed of in landfills and incinerated a few years ago. Nowadays, most advanced companies use polystyrene compactors to recycle them.

While recycling is something that has always been done, advanced recycling equipment can make recycling efforts much more efficient. Many companies are working on ways to make polystyrene recycling as easy as throwing it in the trash, such as polystyrene recycling specialist GREENMAX.

GREENMAX uses advanced physical technology to design the machine. Polystyrene is crushed by the machine and extruded into blocks by the screw in two stpolystyrene, and then becomes blocks of 1 in 50 of its original volume.At this point, the material produced by these machines can be sold to major polystyrene recyclers.

The reduced size of the material blocks makes them easy to transport and does not take up much storage space. However, this is the beginning of the life cycle of polystyrene after it has been disposed of, and it brings much more value than that.

The blocks produced by these machines are the raw material for plastic pellets. The major plastic particle manufacturers make them into particles and then remanufacture them into finished products such as picture frames and skirting that can be sold on the market. This is a complete life cycle of polystyrene, and such a cycle can theoretically reach seven times. Compared to previous landfill methods, the polystyrene compactor has made recycling polystyrene a simple and easy task thanks to science, innovation and perseverance. Such a cycle is a huge change.