Polystone chemistry
Founded in 2007, Guangdong Jushi Chemical Co., Ltd. is located in the beautiful tourist city of Guangdong Province - Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. The headquarters covers an area of 150 acres. The company has a registered capital of 64.30 million. It is a collection of modified plastics. In one of the modified plastics production enterprises, has always been committed to creating a professional halogen-free environmentally friendly flame retardant modified plastic leading enterprises.
On August 3, 2018, the Chilean government promulgated the 'ban on plastics', which would ban all supermarkets and shops in the country from providing plastic bags to shoppers. As a result, Chile will become the first country in Latin America to completely ban businesses from providing plastic bags.
In order to promote the technical level of 'China Zhizao' industry, Juyi New Materials, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guangdong Jushi Chemical Co., Ltd., jointly developed with South China University of Technology, and jointly exhibited with SoluBag of Chile on August 8th: Alcohol is the main raw material for the production of water-soluble shopping bags, the style, the price is similar to ordinary plastic bags, providing a new solution for Chile's 'forbidden plastic', cheering for the world's 'no plastic', and helping the green environmental protection industry.
1. Shopping bags that can be drunk in case of water
Shopping bags can be drunk into the water to drink? This is not a joke. In the Chilean capital Santiago, facing the reporters' 'short guns and short guns', Chile's SoluBag general manager Roberto Astete really did not drink less Shopping bag in the water.
In order to get a better picture, the reporter asked Astete again and again: 'Trouble again and demonstrate it again!'
Astet tirelessly stuffed a polyvinyl alcohol bag into a glass jug to show its process of water infusion. After it became a milky white liquid, it was toasted again and again: 'I wish you good health! Cheers! '
2. Green environmental protection is easy to degrade
Polyvinyl alcohol water-soluble shopping bag is dissolved in water. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Jorge Bielegas)
This new environmentally friendly water-soluble bag looks exactly like a normal plastic bag, but its main raw material, polyvinyl alcohol, is a water-soluble biodegradable material that is harmless to the human body. The rest of the added materials are also food grade.
'A common plastic bag takes 400 years to degrade; and a polyvinyl alcohol water-soluble bag, which takes only 5 minutes to degrade, can be described as 'visible degradation'.
'Thanks to the materials and technology of the Chinese company, we will be able to produce polyvinyl alcohol water-soluble bags in Chile in the future, providing a solution for Chile's 'no plastic'.' Astitek told Xinhua News Agency.
Li Lingyu, general manager of Guangdong Juyi New Material Co., Ltd. told Xinhua News Agency: 'If you throw a polyvinyl alcohol water-soluble bag into the sea, it will dissolve quickly and disappear in seawater, and eventually it can be completely degraded into carbon dioxide and water by microorganisms. 'White pollution'. '
3. Raw materials in China can be reduced after production.
'The raw material used to make polyvinyl alcohol water-soluble shopping bags was invented in China. It is one of our projects developed in cooperation with South China University of Technology. Now we work with Chilean companies to make shopping bags, we are responsible for production. Raw materials, providing technical support, Chilean company is responsible for the market and sales of products. 'Li Lingyu said.
At present, the polyvinyl alcohol water-soluble bag has not yet been put into production. The Chinese and Chilean companies have jointly submitted two invention patent applications for this new type of shopping bag to the State Intellectual Property Office of China, one of which simultaneously submitted the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty). International Patent Application. The bags used by Astet for demonstration are produced in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, China.
'Since 2015, we have been optimizing the formula to reduce costs. If the water-soluble bags are mass-produced like ordinary plastic bags, we can reach the price of ordinary plastic bags. ' Li Lingyu said.
Astete plans to set up a plant in Chile, and began mass production at the end of this year, selling to the world.
'If the water-soluble bag is 3 or 4 times higher than the ordinary plastic bag, I believe that in the 'plastic limited' country, everyone will still not use it. Therefore, mass production, lower costs, and the same price as ordinary plastic bags. , is the real solution. ' Astete said.
Astete displays polyvinyl alcohol water-soluble non-woven bags. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Jorge Bielegas)
In a country that is often raining, is it bad to take this shopping bag out of the supermarket?
'No! We can design products with different water-soluble temperatures, from normal temperature of 25 degrees Celsius to 75 degrees Celsius to over 90 degrees Celsius. In countries where it is often raining, you can use products that dissolve in hot water. ' Li Lingyu answers .
Astete also showed reporters two kinds of polyvinyl alcohol products, one appearance is consistent with ordinary plastic bags, water soluble at room temperature, used to replace plastic bags; the other appearance is consistent with non-woven bags, exceeding 90 degrees Celsius soluble, used to replace non-woven bags on the market.
5.'Forbidden' from Easter Island
According to UNEP data, more than 8.3 billion tons of plastics have been produced worldwide since the 1950s. Currently, 5 trillion plastic bags are used every year in the world, and 8 million tons of plastics per year flow into the ocean, causing marine life to die.
According to this trend, by 2050, the amount of plastic waste in the ocean will exceed the number of marine fish. Since human consumption of fish has swallowed plastic, humans are also indirectly eating 'microplastics'.
On the Pacific Ocean, 3,500 kilometers west of the Chilean mainland, there is a world-famous island, Easter Island. With the continuous spread of plastic garbage in the ocean, the ecological environment of this national business card in Chile is also threatened.
Easter Island Governor Tarita Alarcon told Xinhua News Agency: 'There are too many plastic garbage in the ocean today. Easter Island is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We have done nothing, and there are still plastic garbage from all directions. . '
'Australia, Asia, North America, South America, plastic waste are all here. Visitors drink coffee in Hawaii, throw plastic coffee cups into the sea, and drift to Easter Island. ' Tarita Alarcon said .
'I sincerely hope that the world can ban plastic bags!' Easter Island aboriginal Linn Rapp prayed.
Jushi Chemical is committed to the green environmental protection business and has completed the layout of six major sectors. The wholly-owned subsidiary Juyi New Materials focuses on water-soluble packaging materials, recycling polymer materials, plant-based bonding materials and other products for people. Work hard, health, good life! Come on! POLY-E (Juyi new material)!