Affected by China's ban on 'foreign waste', the EU has accelerated the pace of plastic waste remediation. In recent days, the EU has proposed three 'R' concepts: reduction (reducir), reuse (reutilizar), and re-producir (re-producir). In addition, the EU has also set a goal to realize that all plastic products in the homes of EU residents can be reused by 2030. This means that disposable plastic products will be difficult to enter in Europe. If this policy is implemented, then Chinese-operated food delivery The costs of packaging and packaging will increase, and the turnover of related products will also be affected.
Although this goal seems impossible to achieve today, the destruction of plastic waste to the environment can be visually predicted: By 2030, Europe will spend 230 billion euros to rectify plastic waste, and 3.4 million tons of plastic waste will increase carbon dioxide in the air Concentration. At present, Europe is the second largest plastic producer in the world (after China). Throughout Europe, the livelihoods of nearly 50,000 companies and 1.6 million Europeans depend on the plastics industry chain. In 2016, The industry even created a turnover of 350 billion euros.
After the plastic limit, 80,000 employees will face unemployment?
Throughout Spain, plastic products are the industries in which 4,000 companies and more than 80,000 employees depend on for their survival. The volume of business is as high as 26 billion yuan. According to the data released by the European Commission in January this year, among the EU member states, a total of Of the 255 tons of plastic waste, 40% of it is incinerated, 30% of waste is landfilled, and only 30% is recycled. That is, 70% of plastic waste threatens the environment.
Worryingly, 84% of the garbage on the beach is plastic waste in developed countries such as Spain's tourism economy. According to Greenpeace, a non-governmental organization for the protection of the environment, trash at the bottom of the Mediterranean Ninety-six percent of the components are plastic waste. Another alarming data given by EU experts: In the North Sea in the North Atlantic, 94% of birds have plastic waste in their stomachs.
How long does it take for these plastic wastes to decompose naturally? According to Greenpeace's charts, natural dissolving time is as high as 50 years or more for disposable tableware, which we usually use for delivery. Experts predict that by 2020, plastics The remaining amount of waste will be 900% more than 40 years ago, and it will exceed 500 million tons annually. To this end, how can the EU properly solve plastic waste?
China says 'no' to 'foreign rubbish'!
Exporting plastic waste to China, which is a long-term remedy for plastic waste that the European Union has taken. In the past 30 years, China imported large amounts of discarded paper from Europe, plastic and metal wastes were used for reproduction, but this historical period was this year Completed on March 1.
According to statistics, Spain exported 35 million Euros worth of plastic waste to China in 2017, and Customs said it weighed 115,000 tons. Jordi Simón, Technical Director of the Biodegradable and Composting Plastics Association of Spain, emphasized that although biodegradable materials are beneficial to the environment, But not a solution for plastic waste, not everything can be produced with biodegradable materials instead of ordinary plastic materials.
How will plastic waste rectify the impact on West China?
Not only is the European Union taking action to reduce the harm caused by plastic waste, Spain also began to crack down on disposable plastic products. Podemos Party recommended that by 2020, a total ban on the sale and import and export of disposable plastic products, including disposable cutlery, paper cups, straws And so on. At the same time, at least 50% of the plastic products used for biodegradable materials will be increased to 60% by 2025.
Once the Podemos Party’s proposal is passed, the Chinese restaurant and the Chinese warehouse, the hundred dollar store business will be affected. First in Spain, where the take-out industry has just emerged, one-off boxes will be banned and the food boxes provided by the restaurant must be recyclable. With the use of products, this will inevitably increase the restaurant's operating costs, which will lead to an increase in the price of take-out; on the other hand, the scope of operations of Chinese warehouses and hundred-dollar shops will also be reduced.
The more intuitive effect is that the convenience of living, which is now very common, will disappear.