United States’ largest dessert coffee chain Dunkin coffee cup is testing a polystyrene to replace using of polystyrene foam cups over the year because polystyrene cups can greatly increase the recycling rate.
The producer is United States Berry Plastic Group Inc.
Dunkin expressed the hope that in the next 2-3 years launches new polystyrene cups, but it takes up specific plans based on test results.
The company is also testing a two-layer paper cups. And the company each year in the United States consume 1 billion coffee cups. For each kind of material, and cost are factors that need to be considered. Polystyrene cups cost more than foam cups. Franchisee can decide the Cup price.
The other view of the reason of the company’s change: foam is lightweight and have the function of insulation. Also, it has the function of buffer and anti-corrosion. In addition, the price is low. The advantages are that it can be used in commodity, packaging, industrial, agricultural, traffic transport and military industrial. Especially, it has a wide use in space industrial.
China in the 1990 of the 20th century the development of polystyrene foam is quick and the main varieties have polyurethane soft mass and hard mass foam, polystyrene foam and so on.
Polystyrene resin is light which is raw material resources and favorable price-performance ratio and excellent heat resistance, chemical resistance and easy to recycle, and has other characteristics. What’s more it is the world’s fastest output growth in General thermoplastic resins, including research and development of polystyrene foam has become a hotspot in recent years because polystyrene foam products have good performance and very broad prospects.