As COVID-19 continues its rapid spread in Australia, we have been advised to practice safe social distancing, to stay indoors as much as possible and minimise human contact. In March 2020, the Federal Government implemented a ban on operators offering dine-in services. This has encouraged operators to focus solely on delivery services, and increased the use of disposable polystyrene food containers for take-out food delivery.

Not only that, new laws designed to reduce the amount of plastic waste generated by the foodservice industry have been put on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic – including New York City’s ban on styrofoam containers for takeout food, and the UK’s planned ban on plastic straws, stirrers and bags.

In this way, massive pile-up of single-use plastics, through restaurant takeout polystyrene food containers has been caused during the COVID-19 pandemic around the whole world, and how to recycle the polystyrene waste has been a headache that urgently needs to be solved for many restaurant owners or local councils.

If you are the person who wants to reduce the disposable polystyrene food containers waste or recycle it better, you can find out the collection facility in your state for help. There are many drops off facilities for polystyrene recycling in Australia, and they are capable of accepting all types of polystyrene from both packaging and building applications.

For those who have quantities of disposable polystyrene takeout packaging to be processed, such as chain restaurant owners offering delivery services during the epidemic, a suitable polystyrene recycling equipment is indispensable to ensure the smooth progress of polystyrene recycling.

In the past few months, the most consulted for GREENMAX was the Polystyrene Compactor, which is a professional polystyrene recycling machine specialized in compressing waste polystyrene into dense blocks at a compression ratio of 50:1, thereby helping to reduce the storage space and transportation costs, accompanied by an extra profit by selling the compressed polystyrene blocks to GREENMAX for further processing at a reasonable price.

The GREENMAX Polystyrene Compactor can be designed according to your waste plastic materials (like EPS & EPE), quantity & plant size, budget, and policy environment, and a customized polystyrene recycling solution will also be provided free of charge. Please visit http://www.greenmaxmachine.com.au/ for more information.