The current state of China's recycling industry

This is a private inspection of a waste plastic packing site in Hebei, China.

The waste plastic packaging park is located at the junction of Beijing and Hebei, covering a large area. There are many stalls engaged in cleaning, crushing and packing of waste plastics in the park. Its role is to deal with the plastics in Beijing's garbage sorting recyclables, including: disposable lunch boxes, daily chemical bottles, paint buckets, toys, simple home appliances, car bumpers, etc. The treated waste plastic fragments are supplied to the downstream manufacturers of recycled particles and modification companies in Hebei, Shandong and other places. It is an important node in the recycling of waste plastics in North China.

However, as an important role in the regional circular economy, the park has always been in a "gray" area for the following reasons:

#1 . Supplement Beijing's waste plastic treatment

As the national capital, Beijing is a super city with a population of 20 million. The amount of waste generated every day is huge. Despite the implementation of waste classification, the recyclables include metal, paper, plastic and other waste. The utilization system is equivalent to no classification. Some garbage disposal stations and scavengers separate metals, paper, and plastics, but they lack further classification and there is no plastic volume reduction process.

The cost of reprocessing and transportation of such waste plastics is very high. The park finely sorts, cleans, and crushes waste plastics recycled in Beijing, which greatly reduces transportation and recycling costs. The huge amount of waste plastics in Beijing has the opportunity to be reused.

#2. small workshop for warmth

The park is not an integrated operation, but rented out to rough-processing family workshops in the form of stalls. The "scattered pollution" characteristic of the recycling industry still exists. The sewage flows in the park and there is no waste treatment equipment.

Perhaps elsewhere, the living space of small workshops is getting smaller and smaller, but gathered in a park, they can disregard the rules and regulations to efficiently dispose of waste plastics. Although this is not friendly to the long-term development of the industry, it is already under the current policy state. The optimal solution.

#3. The needs of the industry chain

In the absence of national policy guidance and industry standards, the industry market is free to compete, and the cost of waste plastic disposal of formal enterprises with complete procedures and up to standards must be higher than similar small workshops, lack of market competitiveness, and ultimately lead to the expulsion of bad currencies Good money.

But if one size fits all small workshop-style enterprises, and now there is no recycling system to replace it, then the plastic recycling industry chain will be disconnected, no waste plastics will be collected, and recycling companies will have no goods, which will eventually lead to waste of resources and more serious problems. Plastic pollution. Therefore, the government can only acquiesce in such a park.

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