In recent years, the ecological and environmental problems faced by China have become increasingly prominent, and pollution prevention cannot be delayed. The State Council issued the “Three-Year Action Plan for Winning the Blue Sky Defence War” at the beginning of July, clearly setting out the overall thinking, basic objectives, main tasks and Safeguard measures, and through a series of special action measures to actively implement, to ensure that China's air pollution control will achieve greater results by 2020. Recently, the first batch of central environmental protection inspectors 'review' has been stationed. And the recycled plastics industry As the focus of environmental supervision in recent years, it has once again become the focus of market attention.
Undoubtedly, 'green' has become the main theme of China's current and future development. To this end, the state has successively issued a series of environmental protection policies and regulations prohibiting solid waste import, central environmental supervision, tax inspection, etc., and has intensified supervision and inspection. It has brought great challenges to the plastics industry, especially the reinvented plastics industry.
For the recycled plastics industry, the environmental protection situation in 2018 is still very serious. The promotion of national environmental protection and rectification, the manufacturers of recycled plastics have been affected to varying degrees. Since 2011, under the environmental supervision activities in China, a large number of enterprises Being shut down, the overall operating rate of the recycled plastics industry continued to remain low, and some enterprises were worried about survival and faced transformation.
Since the formal implementation of the 'forbidden waste order', the situation of imported recycled materials has become more and more serious. The state clearly states that only thermoplastic waste materials, scraps and defective products can be imported in the "Environmental Control Standards for Importing Solid Wastes as Raw Materials". According to statistics, in 2017, the import volume of China's waste plastics was 5.83 million tons, down 20.7% year-on-year, and the import value was 3,260,283 thousand US dollars, down 11.8% year-on-year. Under the background of national environmental protection production, the implementation level of later policies may continue to increase. .
If environmental protection and rectification shut down small factories and family workshops, the 'forbidden waste program' directly affects the supply of large-scale recycled pellet factories. The entire imported waste plastics recycling granulation industry may be the way forward. Life-source waste plastics have already It will be banned at the end of 2017, and the industrial source category will be completely banned by the end of 2018. This means that the history of long-term import of waste materials will be ended, and the shortage of millions of tons of raw materials needs to find a new direction.
The country's restrictions on the import of waste plastics are unstoppable, and the collapse of the recycled plastics industry has made the price increase of raw materials a trend. The shortage of goods has become the norm. This year, the comprehensive operating rate of recycled plastics in China is only about 30%, and the corresponding supply side has been in a tight state for a long time. As a result, under the pressure of new material prices continue to fall, the price of recycled materials is still deadlocked. At the same time, domestic demand for recycled materials is not good, market conditions are weak, and production demand may continue to decrease. For example, PE, PP, PVC, ABS, PS, PET and other recycled plastics raw materials market has been flat recently. Most recycled plastics manufacturers have to be cautious and have to withdraw from the market.
Looking at the background of the industry, the recycled plastics industry is currently experiencing an unprecedented development dilemma. On the one hand, under the influence of the national ban on waste, the price of recycled plastics has risen, and the supply of manufacturers has been tight; on the other hand, the consumption of recycled materials has decreased, and the demand has owed 1. The entire recycling industry is in urgent need of breaking the market deadlock.
At present, companies that have been engaged in the import of recycled materials have turned their attention to the Southeast Asian market, and some manufacturers specializing in imported wool have all shipped and transformed into other industries. Industry sources said that in the future, domestic materials will occupy most of the market. Market, park production will be a major trend of development, and the price of recycled plastic products will also rise all the way, the price gap between new and old materials will continue to shrink, some manufacturers may turn to new material demand.
However, at present, the quality of domestically produced materials is relatively poor, the output is low and the supply is insufficient. It still cannot completely replace imported materials to meet the needs of domestic recycling. The domestic recycling system is still not perfect, and various short plates still exist. Industry insiders expect that After the strictest environmental protection year in 2017, it is difficult to make a major breakthrough in the import of waste plastics in 2018.
It is true that although China's recycled plastics industry has achieved certain breakthroughs in recent years, it still faces many challenges in the road of environmental protection. As part of the recycling industry, the national level naturally supports and advocates, but environmentally friendly production, It is the primary premise not to harm the environment. In view of this, enterprises engaged in the recycling industry, whether in domestic production or imported recycled plastics, need to operate in accordance with the regulations, while improving various ring guarantees, accelerating the innovation and upgrading of technology and equipment. The production of recycled plastics will be scaled up and standardized, thus promoting the establishment and improvement of the new industry order, making the recycled plastics industry truly green and sustainable.