The invention relates to the technical field of waste
polystyrene treatment, in particular to a biodegradable modified waste
polystyrene film and a preparation method thereof. The problem existing in the prior art is that waste
styrene is modified into a biodegradable
polystyrene material through conventional chemical
grafting, an initiator or a catalyst needs to be additionally added, and the recycling cost is high. In order to solve the problems, the invention provides the biodegradable modified waste polystyrene film, through ester exchange reaction of
methyl lactate and a PS molecular chain under specific conditions, a lactate group is directly grafted to a PS main chain, and the problem of non-degradability of PS is solved from the
chemical structure. The whole modification process is carried out under heating and sealing conditions, the
transesterification reaction is driven by utilizing the properties of reactants, an initiator or a
metal catalyst commonly used in traditional
grafting modification is omitted, the post-treatment step is simplified, and the production cost is reduced.