China's Plastics Recycling: Prospects Are Wide to Be Solved

About 14 million tons of waste plastics in China are not recycled every year, and the recycling rate is only 25%. The direct resources are wasted as high as 28 billion yuan/year. Since the beginning of this year, the price of plastic raw materials has risen sharply, causing the plastic recycling to flourish again. After the waste plastics are processed into granules, they merely change their appearance and shape, and do not change their chemical properties. They still have good comprehensive material properties and can meet the technical requirements of blow molding, wire drawing, pipe drawing, injection molding and extrusion profiles. In the production of plastic products. China is a big country for plastic consumption. Various used plastic packaging, shopping bags, plastic pots, plastic bottles and other plastic waste are everywhere. Recycling these for recycling can not only reduce environmental pollution, but also make relevant The company significantly reduced raw material costs and increased profits. A medium-sized agricultural film factory needs about 1000 tons of high-pressure polyethylene raw materials every year. The average price of this raw material in the previous period of the plastics market nationwide is 7,000 yuan/ton, and the average price of recycled particles after recycling is only 3,800 yuan/ton. The difference between the 3200 yuan. In other words, as long as half of the plastic film plant purchases recycled plastic pellets, raw material costs can be saved by 1.6 million yuan a year. Why not? What's more, the price of newly produced plastic raw materials is now so high that the plastics factory has turned its sights on recycled raw materials into recycled plastics. The recycled plastics industry has also set its sights on foreign countries in addition to buying waste plastics from domestic sources. At present, most imported plastics import declaration prices are only two or three hundred US dollars per ton. Even if import tariffs and transportation fees are added to domestic processing and sales, it is still profitable. Since the beginning of this year, China's import of waste plastics has grown significantly. In the first half of the year alone, Liaoning Province imported 23,600 tons, an increase of 78.8% over the same period last year, with a value of $6.094 million, an increase of 120% over the same period of last year. Due to the large domestic demand, the price of imported waste plastics also increased. In the first half of the year, the average price of imported waste plastics in Liaoning Province was US$259/ton, which was 22.7% higher than the same period of last year and was the highest level in recent years. Waste plastics are raw materials for the plastic recycling industry. Through the above data, people can feel the heat of the industry.

However, certain conditions in the recycling of plastics can not but cause people's concerns. While the import volume of waste plastics in China has increased substantially, news of the importation of waste plastics from unqualified imports has been received from multiple ports. At the beginning of August this year, Fujian Mawei Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau inspected a batch of waste plastics imported from Japan and discovered that it contained mud, mosquitoes and flies, and had a heavy smell. The Bureau issued a report on environmental protection failure according to law and ordered the consignee to return the shipment immediately. The AQSIQ has issued an announcement suspending the import of waste plastics from Japan. Should the domestic plastic recycling industry learn from it? Social responsibility is something that every enterprise must keep in mind. Any production and business activities should pay attention to protecting our environment and not to the environment. But needless to say, plastic recycling companies have problems in this regard. In the production process of this industry, the recycled plastic wastes need to be cleaned, and some of the washed waste water is directly discharged into the farmland or waste water pool, causing damage to crops and the like. The unprocessable wastes recovered are generally open-burned and exhausted during production, all of which adversely affect air quality. Environmental issues have become an important factor that restricts the survival and development of plastic recycling companies. To solve this problem, it is also necessary to solve the problem of enterprise scale. At present, China's plastic recycling industry is basically based on small workshops, equipment is relatively backward, technical content is not high, product quality is low, the overall profit is not much, most companies are able to make a little bit, can not make it closed, in the environmental protection Of course it is impossible to work hard.

Plastic recycling industry has broad prospects in China. The plastics industry is the pillar of the national economy, and recycling is the only way for the sustainable development of the plastics industry. Plastic regeneration can not only save resources, ease the contradiction between the supply and demand of plastic materials, but also make an important contribution to environmental protection. It is understood that the plastic waste generated in a medium-sized city in a year can meet the needs of raw materials for 20 small and medium-sized plastic products enterprises after recycling. This is obviously not enough in our country. According to statistics made by the former State Economic and Trade Commission, during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, about 14 million tons of waste plastics were not recycled every year, and the recycling rate was only 25%. Direct resource wasted as high as 28 billion yuan per year. It is a good thing for the country and the people to let the plastics recycling industry develop healthily and continuously. It should be said that this industry has made no small progress in recent years, and some places have formed a certain scale. The local government has taken advantage of the situation and cultivated a recycling plastics industrial park with an annual output value of several hundred million yuan. People expect that the government will better perform its functions and introduce relevant regulations and standards to correctly guide the recycling of waste plastics. The operators of this industry must improve production technology, integrate technology into production, improve product quality, create brand products, and pay attention to saving resources and preventing environmental pollution, both for their own benefit and for the benefit of society.