Talking about Packaging Circular Economy

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"Packaging recycling economy" is what we used to call "green packaging economy" or "recycling economy of packaging." Of course, the statement must be in line with international standards, so there will be a "packaged recycling economy".

In recent years, the significant increase in packaging waste has become a problem that cannot be ignored. Often, exquisitely sturdy packaging will become a waste that is left unused. Therefore, it is particularly urgent for the packaging industry to implement a circular economy.

In China, there are not many examples of packaging materials being reborn through recycling. However, the case of Shanghai's “three-point project” turning waste into treasure indicates that China’s “package recycling economy” has started.

As early as 2001, the Shanghai municipal government issued the Interim Measures for the Control of Pollution according to the principle of “who is responsible for pollution and who is responsible” that is used internationally, that is, the administrative department collects 3 points for each disposable plastic lunch box from the manufacturer. Money pollution treatment fees, as a recycling fund. Of these 3 cents, 1/3 of each is used for recycling, transportation, disposal and management. As a result, the value of the disposable plastic lunch box given by the “3 cents project” has given birth to a complete recycling industry chain of disposable plastic lunch boxes from production, recycling to disposal, and this has led to a series of economic effects. As a result, about 95% of the recovered lunch boxes in Shanghai were processed into plastic particles in Kunshan Baolv Plastic Resources Recycling Co., Ltd. These particles were further made into a variety of building materials, air conditioner filters, TV housings, raincoat buttons, shoe soles, heels, office stationery, etc., which not only made recycled plastics made from disposable plastic lunch boxes that have been recycled for over 5 years. The number of particles reached 3,687 tons, and each year, Shanghai's profits from the use of recycled waste plastics reached more than 1 million yuan.

However, just as China’s “packaged recycling economy” has just begun, the “packaged recycling economy” and plans for the development of “green packaging” implemented by many countries in the world are already in full swing.

Germany officially implemented the "Regulations on Packaging Regulations" on June 12, 1991. The packaging regulations stipulate that trade and industry are responsible for the recycling of transport packaging, conversion packaging and sales packaging. At the same time, this regulation also provides producers and sellers with the possibility of entrusting third parties to help fulfill this obligation. The implementation of the regulations has promoted the collection, recycling, and reduction of packaging waste on the one hand, and has also opened up important sources of funds for urban waste disposal. Germany's dual-track system company, "Green Point" - German Recycling System Co., Ltd. (DSD) was born in 1990.

It is reported that in the two years from 2004 to 2005, Germany’s DSD company’s packaging and recycling revenue reached nearly 5 billion euros. It collected and used about 12 million tons of packaging waste.

Mexico’s efforts to make full use of metal scrap production boxes began eight years ago, but the export of reusable products to countries such as the United States began two and a half years ago. It was mainly the responsibility of two distributors in Florida, Cohens and Ecoist. Their main approach is to turn waste metal packaging for cosmetics and beverages into valuable raw materials for making handicrafts, and sell 80% of these products to the United States, and the remaining 20% ​​to domestic consumption. For this reason, Ecoist alone sells these reusable products in 250 specialty stores in major cities throughout the United States, and its annual profit is approximately 300 million in comparison (1 US dollar equivalent to 11 benchmarks).

In the past ten years, Brazil has already implemented 237 cities to implement recycling of packaging waste, and has 500,000 recyclers. In order to fully recycle waste packaging, the country has developed the most typical recycling technology, the most typical of which is the disposal of packaging waste consisting mainly of Tetra Pak.

It is reported that aluminum-plastic-paper composite packaging has the largest value content in packaging waste, but recycling technology is also the most difficult. The plasma-separated aluminum-plastic-paper composite packaging technology developed by TSL's joint research and development organization is developed to address this problem. This technology was completed and put into production in April 2006 in the Olympic City of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since the demonstration plant was built near the Karpen paper mill, the two sides connected to each other in the recycling process. The wastes represented by Tetra Pak were sent to the pulp machine at Karbin Plant to separate the paper fibers. The remaining aluminum-plastic mixture was sent to the demonstration plant and continuously fed into the thermal plasma treatment furnace at a temperature of 15,000°C to 50,000°C. Under high temperature, aluminum, plastic gasification, aluminum components sink, melt into aluminum ingots, and gasification of polymer materials rise, after condensation into a jelly, can be used as chemical raw materials. The demonstration plant is now capable of handling 8,000 tons per year. It can be predicted that with the full implementation of China's vigorous development of the circular economy plan, and with the guidance of the development experience of the “packaged recycling economy” in various countries around the world, China’s “packaged recycling economy” will soon be fully and deeply developed.

Circular economy puts high demands on plastic recycling

Liao, the president of China Plastics Processing Industry Association, said in an interview with reporters recently that China's plastic recycling industry is ushering in a new stage of development. The Chinese government has taken the construction of a circular economy and a conservation-minded society as its basic national policy. Saving resources and protecting the environment have become the common responsibility of the entire society. While encouraging the recycling of resources, the government has also strengthened the environmental monitoring of the recycling and recycling industries. This raises higher goals and requirements for China's plastic recycling industry. It is expected that the industry will develop toward low energy consumption, low pollution, high quality, variety, and high technology.

2006 was a major turning point in China's plastic recycling industry. Liao said: “The Chinese government has raised the building of a conservation-minded society to a new height, strengthened the environmental monitoring of the resource recovery and recycling industry, and is also stimulating the introduction of industry access mechanisms, adjustments of taxes and tariffs, and other policies. , Crude oil prices have been operating at high levels for a long time, and factors such as the shortage of supply of waste plastics and price fluctuations have also contributed to the development of the plastics recycling industry. The scientific and rational disposal of waste plastics and the recycling of recycled plastics have become China’s current efforts to build a harmonious society and develop a recycling economy. important content."

According to reports, most plastic materials are recyclable, are typical resource-saving and environment-friendly materials, and have great value in recycling. Since the beginning of the 21st century, China's recycling and recycling market for plastics has been prosperous and its investment has been active. It is now becoming an environmentally friendly industry that recycles and processes clusters and markets deals in an intensive manner. At present, there are as many as 10,000 plastics recycling enterprises in China, and the recycling outlets have spread all over the country, forming a number of large-scale recycled plastic recycling markets and processing centers, mainly distributed in the relatively developed provinces of the plastics processing industry. The scale of processing, processing, and operating markets is getting larger and larger. The annual transaction volume is mostly from a few hundred million yuan to several billion yuan, and more than 6 million tons of waste plastics are recycled every year.

However, the current development of this industry is mainly driven by market demand and prices, so environmental pollution and waste of resources are common. Liao Authentic pointed out that although recycling of plastics is an environmentally friendly industry, it is impossible to develop in a healthy and orderly manner without the necessary policies, regulations, technical standards, and market supervision. He reminded the company to strengthen environmental protection in production, pay attention to clean production and technological upgrading, and recycle plastic recycling as a veritable environmental protection industry.

Initial draft of the framework of the draft law on circular economy law

Recently, the National People's Congress Environmental and Resources Protection Work Conference was held in Shenzhen. The meeting discussed the draft circular economy law draft. Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Wendi Hot, and Chairman of the National People's Congress Funding Committee Mao Rubai attended the meeting. Huang Liman, director of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of Guangdong Province, addressed the meeting.

We warmly pointed out that at present, promoting the development of circular economy has become the strategic goal and important content of the national economic and social development plan, and has become the strategic direction and important approach for all regions and departments to promote sustainable economic and social development. In March of this year, the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" outline for national economic and social development adopted by the Fourth National People's Congress (the Fourth National People's Congress) formally incorporated the goals and measures for promoting the development of circular economy into the planning outline. With the joint efforts of people's congresses at all levels, the government, and all walks of life, we promote the concept of circular economy, promote the pilot demonstration of circular economy, formulate plans and plans for circular economy, specify circular economy laws and regulations, policies and technical specifications, and promote the work of recycling economy in China. A solid progress has been made. With the joint efforts of the National People's Congress Environment Protection Committee and relevant departments of the State Council and the active support of people's congresses, governments, and relevant units at all levels, a preliminary framework for a draft law on circular economy law has been preliminarily formed and opinions are being solicited.

Author: Di Fengcui Chaoyang declare any

Reprinted from: China Packaging News