In France, Sydom’s household waste management department is expanding its scope of operations in early November. After sorting waste materials, such as cans, polystyrene trays, food packaging boxes, metals, etc., can be recycled, so they can be thrown into the yellow trash can which contains recyclable waste. However, prior to the community's garbage sorting, as early as 2019, France made the fast-food chain industry sign a commitment to abide by the sorting system, which can carry special bins for cardboard, polystyrene, metals, and other wastes. But the fact shows that most of them didn’t obey their promise, especially on the polystyrene waste sorting and recycling. Based on this situation, waste offenders were named and criticized by the French government when the final policy on polystyrene packaging came into force.



The main application of polystyrene boxes is for takeaway kebabs in France. Every year, 350 million bunch of kebabs are consumed. So the corresponding number of polystyrene takeaways and packaging boxes is also huge. Polystyrene takes thousands of years to fully biodegrade in nature, whereas plastic bags take 450 years. This became a reason for banning polystyrene in France. However, this is also an excuse for the fast-food industry to refuse to conduct waste polystyrene sorting and recycling. They have no confidence in polystyrene recycling. Whereas polystyrene densifier can change their view.



The traditional thought that polystyrene waste can’t be recycled has been out of fashion. Actually, even the EU began to attach importance to the recycling of polystyrene and other plastics, and even issued a proposal requiring at the content of recycled plastics in plastic products should not be less than 20%. Sirap Group, a sustainable food packaging provider, plans to use the new mechanical recycling Ineos Styrolution PS ECO for its new food packaging solution. This material is from Ineo Styrolution that has indicated they will work to increase production to meet their commitment to using an average of 30% recycled ingredients in polystyrene packaged products in Europe by 2025. Ineos Styrolution adopts a sorting system and recycling machine to realize its target.



In the process of recycling polystyrene, recycling equipment is crucial. There are some companies that recycle polystyrene and acquired good results with the help of recycling equipment. In France, the most common polystyrene recycling machine is the polystyrene compactor. Moreover, a polystyrene densifier is also a fine choice. For example, GREENMAX polystyrene densifeir could save large space offering you convenience by compacting waste polystyrene. Different from polystyrene compactor, GREENMAX polystyrene densifier adopts hot-melting technology to compress waste polystyrene at a high compressing ratio. Having researched polystyrene recycling for many years, INTCO Recycling is reliable to provide credible GREENMAX polystyrene densifiers or compactors. So that polystyrene densifier can give French fast food enterprises confidence to recycle polystyrene boxes and cups. In the field of green technology, waste polystyrene is a veritable gold mine -- it can be recycled and reused to make new products. Moreover, waste polystyrene should be seen more as a resource than a nuisance.