British media said experts warned that due to China's ban on the import of recycled waste, the British local city council may refuse to recover plastic and increase tax revenue.
According to a report by the "Daily Telegraph" website in the United Kingdom on December 7, two-thirds of the current waste plastics in the UK are being shipped to China, but as an effort to strengthen independence that is being promoted as an anti-foreign garbage movement, The plastic will not be accepted for recycling starting in March, and the Chinese government has announced higher quality requirements for other imported scrap, such as cardboard, which could put chaos in scrap recycling operations in local councils in the UK.
Local government representatives have said the move will have a "significant effect" on the finances and, as a result, the likely impact on municipal fees and refuse collection services, which are now offset by some revenue from municipal recycling by municipalities. Is to sell the trash by sorting out the reusable material from the trash or - if the trash is not sorted - to pay the trash contractor a fee lower than that of a traditional landfill or incinerator After the contractor removed the trash.
Reports that China's ban on the import of plastic waste mean that about 540,000 tons of plastic garbage may not be available anywhere now.Although other manufacturing countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam also accept recycled plastics, their capacity and the loss of the Chinese market can not The same day.
Lee Marshall, chief executive of the local government's Waste Recycling Advisory Board, said: "The budgets are so tight that it is for this reason that municipal councils that have not considered tax increases are now likely to consider doing so. Some parts of England are already operating for three weeks There is a possibility that more places will do the same, and it will also shorten the operating hours of dumping sites, which will be unpopular. "
Greenpeace's analysis of customs data shows that Britain shipped over 2.7 million tons of plastic garbage to China from 2012. Marshall said that while smaller countries like Malaysia have the capacity to accept waste recovered by the United Kingdom, they may not A price that would be worth sorting out and transporting the trash would have been told.He told The Guardian: 'If you have done a good job of approaching a UK factory that manufactures plastic products, then you have to recycle waste in the UK, and at the same time establish It is a real opportunity for infrastructure to be used for waste recycling, which is a real opportunity. "He and other charity representatives challenged the government's preparations to respond to the change.
A spokesman for the UK's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: 'We are continuing to work with the waste disposal industry and the Environment Bureau to understand the impact of the Chinese government's proposed restrictions on the import of waste to the industry as a whole. We will also look at domestic More ways to dispose of garbage as part of our resource and waste management strategy. '
According to the EU's target, at least half of all domestic waste must be recycled by the United Kingdom by 2020, the report said, with the current ratio being 43%.