Polystyrene packaging should be disabled or recycling?

　　A few days ago, The Hermosa Beach California expanded polystyrene packaging and disable the extent to which, the execution time is on September 11 this year, valid for a period of 180 days. Is expected that will include restaurants, grocery stores, more than 30 enterprise performance is affected by the sea.
　　As well known, PS foam is a light petroleum-based plastic material, which is generally used for the transport service, disposable containers and disposable foam lunch boxes and so on foaming products.. Polystyrene by many environmental groups believe that the main reason of the beach and ocean pollution.
　　However, China National light industry information center senior engineer Tang saizhen believes that, based on many years of practice at home and abroad and research results show that PS foam plastic tableware is not "white" culprit, innocuous in itself, health security, can be recycled..From resources, energy, application, health performance, recycling and comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the degradation of performance and price, in addition to raw materials than from renewable resources, biodegradable after use outside, other are better than all kinds of one-time fast tableware, its price/performance is optimal in all types of disposable tableware. From disposable fast food of life cycle assessment, PS foam plastic tableware are consistent with the 3R (reduction, recycle, reuse) the principles of green environmental protection product. Therefore, in the alternative product technologies, economic issues have not been fully resolved, applications, there are many health and performance problems under the situation of market and demand, PS foam food packaging product of choice is undoubtedly the current disposable food packaging.
　　Studies have found that with some of the so-called environmental "green" packaging compared to PS in the energy consumption, water use and solid waste (weight and volume) emissions, as well as in its life cycle, from production to transport processing, than its "green packaging" rivals using less. And, noted in the research report, PS foam product very little energy and water consumption, energy consumption and only PLA products one-third.
Nevertheless, inland and coastal regions of California, more than more than 60 large and small such as the judiciary, still proposed statewide ban on PS used food packaging. While prohibiting the use of PS packaging can inspire the potential employment opportunities, but PS recycling of packaging of our value is immeasurable. And broad applicability, lightweight polystyrene itself, as feature shows the value of expanded polystyrene packaging and good value for money.