Recycling polystyrene

Polystyrene is the protective packaging material that encases many parts of our consumer lives. Packed safely and soundly within it, everything from TVs, ovens, computers and even meat arrive safely at our doors protected for our use. But it's a problematic byproduct of modern life: in many places around New Zealand you can't recycle it, so it has to be dumped at the tip, or broken into smaller pieces and smuggled into rubbish bags destined for landfill. Well perhaps no longer! We meet a man who's hacked together a bunch of old farm machinery, scavenged parts, and even some old rollerblades, to develop a simple solution for recycling polystyrene so that it can be resold for road-building and house construction. We visit Richard Moore of Poly Palace in Porirua to see his groundbreaking polystyrene recycling system in action.