The Prohibition of Import of 4 types of 24 types of solid waste (household waste plastics, vanadium slag, unclassified waste paper and waste textile) stipulated in the "Implementation Plan for the Prohibition of the Entry of Foreign Rubbish into the Country for the Import Administration of Solid Waste" promulgates a countdown of one month.
For decades, China has been the world's major processing center for waste recycling, and the International Recycling Bureau estimates that China imported 7.3 million tons of waste plastics from Europe, Japan and the United States last year, worth 3.7 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 56% of the world's total imports of waste plastics.
A U.S. waste management company manager said the company is working with buyers in India, Vietnam and South Korea to take over China's unwillingness to do more, but China's demand for the past few years was extremely huge and halted its import This means that there will be a very big problem in the level of activity in this market.
Who will become China's Panjiaxia? There is a voice pointing to China's neighbor Japan - or will be a country that seizes this opportunity. Japan supports research and development, some of the new technologies used by large companies both at home and abroad, or will part of Replace the long-term use of low-cost, polluting recycling systems in China.
Earlier, director Liu Zhanshan of Japan's PEDIC Co., Ltd. paid a visit to the association: "Although China no longer imports plastic waste, China still has a huge market for plastic raw materials."
Peng Deke Co., Ltd. Overseas Division Liu Zhanshan
At the 18th China Plastics Recycling and Recycling Conference on ChinaReplas2017 (Autumn), Director Liu delivered a speech entitled "The Changing Japanese Recycled Plastics Industry", further sharing his point of view on the matter.
Peng Deke predicts that by China's "ban order" and Japan's domestic production capacity constraints, in 2018 Japan is likely to fall into the state of excess supply of recycled plastic raw materials, high-volume industrial waste plastics continue to export to China, living source of waste plastics Will be exported to Southeast Asia or granulated in Japan.
For Japan's future development direction of waste plastics, director Liu summarized four points:
the first , Some industrial production of non-performing products will continue to be exported to China, depending on the number of future approval, the new import standards and other factors, the number and type of imports corresponding changes.
second , Exports to the ASEAN region will increase sharply, but the ASEAN region has relatively small capacity. At present, each country's waste import policy is relatively stable, but after a sharp increase next year, it is not sure whether there will be policy changes.
third , Mixed, and composite materials related to industrial waste. These materials were previously available and are now required for industrial waste disposal in Japan. There is almost a saturation suspense for domestic use of fuels or incineration facilities in Japan.
fourth , Japan's export of recycled particles to China increased sharply.At present China's most in demand is the particle, the Japanese market surplus of some renewable particles from next year will exacerbate the export to China.