Recently, the Thai government issued an order prohibiting waste plastic and Electronic waste Imports, and factories that process and recycle waste plastics must be qualified to continue operations.
After the closure of plastic waste to China, foreign media said that experts warned that the Thai government's promotion of local waste-to-energy policies has led to a surge in local plastic waste imports, Thailand is likely to become Global 'land of rubbish' .
Southeast Asian countries have also begun to ban foreign garbage imports.
Since the implementation of the 'prohibition of waste' in China, a large amount of waste was forced to transfer to Southeast Asia, and now, some Southeast Asian countries have also banned the import of foreign garbage.
Vietnam The container to be processed was overstocked and stopped accepting four months of waste plastic in late June.
Malaysia Also reviewing the country's plastic waste import policy.
Thailand Import of waste plastics and electronic waste is strictly prohibited on July 2.
In the past 20 years, about half of the world's recyclables have been shipped to China. With such a large number, many countries are so difficult to cope with the phenomenon of rejecting waste plastics.
Huang Chuyu, President of China Waste Plastics Association Said, 'The latest changes have had a devastating effect on recyclers, especially those who have transferred their business from China due to China’s ban. Some of them will have to withdraw their business again, maybe even The factory suffered huge losses before it started operations. '
Huang Chuyu estimated that after the Chinese government cracked down on the import of waste plastics, about 20% of China's plastic recycling companies have transferred their operations to other countries, mainly in Southeast Asia.
In China, the 'forbidden waste' is further upgraded. It is banned from import at the end of 2017. Source of waste plastic Rear, Industrial source waste plastic Imports are also banned soon!
Industrial waste plastics were completely banned on December 31, 2018!
Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Commerce, the Development and Reform Commission, and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued <进口废物管理目录>Announcement, Adjusting the Catalogue of Imported Waste Management in Batches:
16 kinds of solid wastes such as scrap metal, waste ship, scrap car scrap, smelting slag, industrial waste plastics, etc. are adjusted to prohibit import, December 31, 2018From the date carried out;
调整 Adjusted to the list of prohibited solid wastes at the end of 2018
Remarks: Customs commodity number column is for reference only.
16 kinds of solid wastes such as stainless steel waste materials, titanium waste materials and wood waste materials are adjusted to prohibit import. From December 31, 2019 carried out.
调整 Adjusted to the list of prohibited solid wastes at the end of 2019
Remarks: Customs commodity number column is for reference only.
Insufficient domestic supply of recycled plastics
In 2018, 'import', 'environmental protection' is still the two mountains that are pressed against the waste plastics recycling industry.
As the number of plastic products continues to increase, waste plastics are also increasing, so recycling and recycling of waste plastics becomes more and more important.
Waste plastic recycling granulation Is one of the main recycling methods in China, however because The recycling system is not perfect, Leading a large number of domestic recycled plastics enterprises to rely on imported waste plastics to produce.
After the implementation of China 'Forbidden Waste Order', a large number of recycling enterprises that use imported waste plastics as raw materials for production have lost the source of raw materials for production. The stability of raw materials has become a major problem for recycled plastics enterprises.
In 2017, the total imports of waste plastics decreased by 20.7% year-on-year.
On June 19, the Ministry of Commerce issued the "China Renewable Resources Recycling Industry Development Report (2018)".
Import of waste plastics
According to the report, in 2017, China's total imports of waste plastics fell the most, down 20.7% year-on-year.
进口 Imports of major renewable resources in China from 2016 to 2017
Since 2015, China's major renewable resource imports have shown a downward trend. The decline in waste plastics is obvious.
In 2014, the import volume of waste plastics was 8.254 million tons, and the import volume in 2017 was 5.829 million tons, a decrease of 29.4%.
↑↑↑ 2013-2017 China's renewable resources import trend chart
Waste plastic recycling
In 2017, the domestic waste plastic recycling volume was 16.93 million tons, which was 1.85 million tons lower than the 18.78 million tons in 2016, a decrease of 9.9%.
However, due to the current shortage of waste plastics market, the price of waste plastics continued to rise. The total value of domestic waste plastics recycling was 108.1 billion yuan, a 12.9% increase from 2016. At the same time, the overall profit level of the waste plastics industry was higher than that of 2016. Part of the product surplus Increase by 50%-60%.
↑↑↑ 2013-2017 China's waste plastic recycling
Waste plastic recycling trend forecast
Due to the normalization of environmental protection inspectors, adjustment of import policies, strong domestic demand, and international crude oil prices, 2018, large-scale waste plastic recycling enterprises that regulate operations will accelerate development.
Industry competition has gradually penetrated into the middle and high-end areas, and the development potential of the industry has become more apparent. In turn, the domestic waste plastics recycling system is constantly improving. The amount of recycling will increase slightly from the previous year. Park development will be the main direction for the future development of waste plastics recycling industry.
At the same time, the company will also pass Introduce foreign advanced waste plastic recycling and sorting technology equipment Improve the efficiency of sorting processing and improve the quality of recycled plastics.
Conditional enterprises choose to build factories abroad, will waste plastic Processed into recycled pellets imported to China To respond to policy changes.
Importing recycled pellets or welcoming opportunities?
In the process of completing the policy, although there is a ban on waste plastics, Regenerated particles In this respect, there is no obvious limit, which will be a significant positive for imported pellets.
Future for Imported recycled granules In terms of origin, the source is more turned to Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries.
As for the traders of imported granules, as many imported wool traders began to inquire about the import of granules, the foreign granulated suppliers began to sit on the ground, the domestic environmental inspections were prosperous, the supply was tight, and some recycled plastics were also rising.