January 11 reported that the British media said China banned the import of 24 kinds of foreign rubbish, including plastic, however, many Western countries, including Britain, have long been accustomed to packaging rubbish for shipping to China for years.
According to the BBC website reported on January 8, the British industry organization said that after China imposed the ban, the United Kingdom did not have enough capacity to deal with excess plastic garbage, the media exclaimed that Britain is facing the dilemma of rubbish. So Britain exported to China each year plastic What is the amount of rubbish? It is hard to give a precise answer to this question, because many different agencies and organizations provide many different data, but we can start with how much plastic Britain uses each year.
In 2014, the industry group Europe Plastics estimated that Britain used a total of 3.7 million tons of plastic per year, leaving no statistics on how much plastic waste each year produces.However, charities that call for rubbish reduction are 'packaged' with 'European plastics' According to the figures, the United Kingdom claims 3.7 million tons of plastic waste each year.
Reported that this is only a guess of the total, did not take into account how much of it was recycled, but there is no recycling figures, there is the United Kingdom used packaging garbage statistics.This figure exists because of the so-called 'Polluter pays' regulation, which requires companies that manufacture and sell packaging products to bear some recycling costs, during which the British agency 'Environmental Affairs Department' collects the data. According to the Environmental Affairs Agency, a total of 2.2 million Tonne of plastic packaging trash and the Environmental Affairs Department publishes such figures in the National Packaging Garbage Database, which includes plastic bottles, packaging films for fresh food, etc. but does not include garbage bumpers such as car bumpers, to compare this figure Equivalent to 60% of the estimated total amount of plastic waste in the year of charity packaging.
It is reported that in the United Kingdom, 38%, or 832,000 tons, of plastic waste was recycled in the United Kingdom and the number of non-packaging plastic wastes is still unknown. Most of the plastic waste collected comes from households, and this figure comes from the United Kingdom 'Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' figures show that in 2014, the total amount of plastic recycled in the home was 428,000 tons in 2014 and rose to 475,000 tons in 2016.
According to the British Customs and Revenue Department's Trade Information website, Britain exports 800,000 tons of plastic garbage annually in 2014, 2015 and 2016, of which 500,000 tons in 2014 and 2015 Plastic waste exports to the Mainland of China and Hong Kong in 2016 are 400,000 tons.
Reportedly, it can be seen that the difference between plastic waste exported to China and plastic waste collected from every household in the United Kingdom is not too great, but since China implemented the new policy of not saying 'foreign garbage' China's plastic waste exports will gradually decline.