Ukrainian State News Agency reported on April 26 that the European Bureau of Statistics released the 2016 Global Plastic Production Report that the annual production of global plastics will increase by 4% and increase by 20% (56 million tons) in the past five years. Total production of plastics is 335 million tons. , Of which 60 million tons in Europe. China is one of the largest plastic producers. The country's output accounts for about 25% of the global plastic production.
The surplus of plastic garbage has become a problem in many countries in the world. Ukraine is no exception. Each year it accumulates approximately 12-15 million tons of solid waste, 40% of which are plastic containers. Experts point out that the problem is that Ukrainians do not have the power to civilize waste, especially plastics. Bottles. The packaging material storage system helps most European countries fight plastics.
The principle of operation is that, when the bottle is placed in a specialized automatic machine, it will return a portion of the money paid by the consumer to buy the drink. The more bottles the automatic machine collects, the more packaging material that can be recycled or processed. And the amount of garbage deposited on landfills. For example, Norway used this system to recycle almost all plastic bottles in the country. In 2016, 598 million bottles were processed, which accounted for 97% of the total.
As long as the people’s parliament approves the draft law registered in the parliament, this system in Ukraine can also be implemented.