Recently an Australian company Start-up invented a way to up recycle expanded polystyrene into food-safe bowls. This is a new stage for Australian polystyrene recycling. Just as Brad Scott said:” In Australia, we tend not to recycle expanded polystyrene at all, we bury it.” According to the latest Australian Plastic Recycling Survey, nearly 58,000 tons of polystyrene were consumed in Australia in 2018-19. However, there are only 6.600 tons of expanded polystyrene recycled. This equals about an 11.4 percent recovery rate. This means that nearly 90 percent of all polystyrene used in Australia ends up in landfills.



Because of polystyrene's light weight and large size, it takes up a lot of space and takes more than a hundred years to be broken down. The low recovery rate of polystyrene is one of the central issues. Besides, polystyrene also cannot be recycled through most curbside recycling, so people in Australia need more professional recycling companies and machines to do this.



To solve this problem, the federal government held the first National Plastics Summit and released the National Plastics Plan, which aims to boost Australia’s recycling capacity in March this year. Whatever things need to change now.



Some companies have tried to look for another way to increase the recycling ratio of polystyrene. Entrepreneur Brad Scott is one of them. He collects polystyrene and then takes it to Mount Gambier and puts it through their machine. At last, he takes the material into his custom-built machinery. In fact, the step of taking polystyrene to Mount Gambier can be easier. The process of it means taking the air out of polystyrene.

Now there are many polystyrene compactors, in which the GREENMAX polystyrene compactor provided by INTCO Recycling is extremely convenient it. If he purchases this machine, his efficiency of transmitting polystyrene into bowls will be uplifted. And the whole market for recycling polystyrene in Australia will increase. INTCO Recycling provides the service of recycling polystyrene and polystyrene compactors.