Polystyrene is a common packaging material in our daily life, mainly used to protect goods from damage during transportation. You can see polystyrene in take-out food trays, egg cartons, fish boxes and so on. Unfortunately, polystyrene not only brings great convenience to our life, but also poses challenges to the environment, while polystyrene recycling has been a hot topic around the world in recent years.

Reasons for Recycling Polystyrene in Australia

As bans on single-use plastic bags and straws gain momentum across the globe, attention is now focused on another mighty environmental opponent: Polystyrene. Polystyrene poses serious health concerns for aquatic life and the general health of the planet, which is no surprise, given that it’s made of thousands of pieces of non-biodegradable plastic. It can neither decay and transform nor degrade and disappear on its own, resulting in serious environmental pollution and wasting valuable non-renewable resources.

More than 30 organisations have signed up to the Sydney Single-use Pledge

According to the data from 2014 National Plastics Recycling Survey, SRU, about 45,000 tonnes of polystyrene is created and consumed each year in Australia, most of which is for long-term use, such as the insulation board used in house construction and engineering. However, about 40% (or 18000 tons per year) are recyclable after being in disposable containers or short-term packaging. How to efficiently recycle waste polystyrene has become an essential concern in Australia, here comes the different polystyrene recycling machines form GREENMAX.

Different Polystyrene Recycling Machines

GREENMAX is a polystyrene recycling specialist who has served over 100 businesses and organizations across Australia and New Zealand in the past 10 years. GREENMAX has launched 3 series of polystyrene recycling machines: cold compactor, hot melter and foam crusher. Applicable materials include EPS, EPE, EPP, beverage packaging.

Mars Series - Polystyrene Melting Machine

GREENMAX Mars Series Hot Melter is a polystyrene melting machine equipped with the screw melting technology, specialized in reducing the volume of waste expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) by crushing, hot melting and extrusion molding. The volume ratio of the polystyrene compressed material that has been hot-melted by Mars Polystyrene Melting Machine to the original foam waste can reach 90:1, greatly reducing the storage space and transportation costs.

Polystyrene Cold Compactor

GREENMAX Apolo Series Cold Compactor is a polystyrene recycling machine specialized in compressing waste EPS lunch box, XPS insulation board, EPP, etc. into blocks by rotating screw pressure without heating. The volume ratio of Apolo polystyrene compactor is 50:1. Specially, Apolo Series Polystyrene Compactor is able to efficiently compact waste foam in any humidity environment, such as the fish boxes that contain water.

Foam Crusher/EPS Beads Crusher

GREENMAX Foam Crusher is a foam recycling machine specializing in smashing the waste foam material into chunks or granules/beads. GREENMAX provides two types of foam crushing machines：Foam Crusher and EPS Beads Crusher.