Global PS usage is down and U.S. EPS recovery is improved
Global PS usage is down and U.S. EPS recovery is improved
The performance of EPS is superior and the quality is portable, its emergence has provided many conveniences for the people's life and production, but its use of post-processing problems has given people a difficult problem. The answer is yes to the question of whether foaming polystyrene (EPS) can be recycled. However, the process of recycling EPS to secondary processing is much more complex than other materials. Like the ubiquitous plastic bags, EPS is used in a variety of forms to meet the growing market demand. With the expansion of EPS application scope, the contradiction between production and treatment is increasingly acute. Compared with paper and other plastic materials, waste EPS is more difficult to handle. Environmentalists appeal, however, to give full play to the role of the EPS, avoid using a regarded as waste landfill, directly after the related department should spend more time and energy on it. America's EPS industry alliance (EPS - IA) according to the latest figures, although treatment is difficult, the United States in 2012 EPS waste recycling utilization rate still increased, the number increased to 93.7 million tons from 71.3 million tons, accounting for 50% of the total U.S. PS waste recycling. In addition to the improvement of recycling utilization, the decrease of EPS plastic waste is also a factor which cannot be ignored. The global demand for PS fell 6 percent between 2003 and 2013, said Priya Ravindranath, chief analyst at IHS, in a presentation at the global plastics summit. Priya Ravindranath says the demand for the PS market has been reduced largely because other materials such as PET and PP have replaced their applications in packaging. With the price of pure benzene soaring, PS has lost its cost competitive advantage. In addition, the improvement of environmental awareness is another important reason for people to abandon PS materials. Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, submitted a draft of the PS ban to the city council in June, to ban the packaging of PS in restaurants and retailers in the city. As soon as the draft is approved, New York will ban the use of photoshop for food packaging. Currently, more than 70 cities in the United States have enacted a ban on the PS.
