Should polystyrene packaging be disabled or recycled?

The rapid development of the plastics industry, while helping to improve people’s living standards, has led to an increase in environmental problems, prompting more and more governments to ban the use of plastic bags and polystyrene (abbreviation: PS) food packaging materials. Other packaging products. Today, "plastic limit orders" have been implemented or proposed in many parts of the Asian continent, including India, Malaysia and the Philippines.

PS foam is known to be a lightweight petroleum-based plastic material that is commonly used in foaming products such as transportation services, disposable containers, disposable foam containers, and the like. Polystyrene is considered by many environmental groups as a major cause of beach and marine pollution.

However, Tang Saichen, a senior engineer at the China Light Industry Information Center, believes that PS foam plastic tableware is not the culprit of “white pollution” based on years of practical experience and research at home and abroad. It is non-toxic and harmless, safe and safe, and can be take such action as Styrofoam recycling. From the comprehensive analysis and evaluation of resources, energy, application, health performance, recycling and degradation performance and price, except that the raw materials are not from renewable resources, they are all harder to degrade after they are used, and all other items are better than all kinds of disposable snack utensils. Its cost performance is the best among all kinds of disposable tableware. From the life cycle evaluation of disposable snacks, PS foam plastic tableware is a green product that meets the principles of 3R (reduction, recycling, reuse). Therefore, under the current situation that the substitute technology and economic problems have not yet been completely solved, there are still many problems in application and sanitary performance, and the market has greater demand, PS foam plastic food packaging is undoubtedly the first choice for disposable food packaging. 

Although the prohibition of the use of PS packaging can stimulate potential employment opportunities, the value of foam cups recycling itself is inestimable. The broad application and lightweight properties of polystyrene itself show the inherent value and good economic benefits of polystyrene packaging.