According to the Global EPS Sustainability Alliance (GESA), 72 countries—including those taking part in next week's UN plastic pollution treaty negotiations—recycled expanded polystyrene (EPS) in 2023. Recycling rates in many of these nations exceeded 30%. The significance of polystyrene to global circularity initiatives is shown by the fact that it is one of only six materials acknowledged by UNEP as being effectively recycled in practice and at scale.

So how should polystyrene be recycled correctly? Currently, the most common way is to crush it first, then compress it, and finally granulate it. Some factories in related industries will adopt the method of crushing first and then compressing. This polystyrene recycling machine that combines crushing and compression is very popular. Does this mean that equipment that only has crushing functions, such as polystyrene crusher, has no meaning to exist? Of course not. If we want to know whether polystyrene crusher has value, we must first understand in which scenarios this equipment is mainly used.

The main function of the polystyrene crusher is to crush expanded polystyrene waste and other expanded foams, and it has no other functions. Its main application scenarios are small and medium-sized factories with recycling needs. Or customers with limited budgets and factory sites will think that polystyrene crusher is a good choice. In addition to these objective conditions, some customers only have crushing needs and no compression needs. For example, some customers want to use small pieces of expanded polystyrene or polystyrene beads to make shock-absorbing packaging used in express transportation. In this case, polystyrene crusher can be used to help recycle.

Therefore, although the types of polystyrene recycling machines have become more and more abundant, the polystyrene crusher, as a relatively basic model, still has its meaning and value. We cannot say that this equipment has been "abandoned" by the market, but the polystyrene crusher fills the gap in the recycling market, giving all factories that want to engage in recycling projects the opportunity to try it.