The world's largest importer of plastic waste is gradually rejecting plastic waste from other countries.
China is the end of the era of waste plastics imports, who is the next largest importer of waste plastics?
The 26-year history of importing 'foreign garbage' has made China receive about 106 million tons of waste from other countries, and about 72% of it has entered China.
Why does China need such a huge amount of waste plastics from other countries?
In the 1980s and 1990s, due to the rapid development of the economy and industry in China, the booming manufacturing industry caused the demand for industrial raw materials to rise rapidly. In addition, domestic petroleum resources could not meet the demand for production. The low quality and excellent quality quickly won the favor of many enterprises. What followed was the increasing import volume of 'foreign garbage'. The huge amount of imported waste plastic not only provided raw materials for domestic enterprises, but also supported the recycled plastics industry. Many large and small enterprises. Although the imported waste plastics have played a certain role in promoting domestic industrial development, development sometimes comes at a price. High energy consumption and high pollution have become the eyes of some people in dealing with these 'foreign garbage. 'The fixed attributes of recycled plastics companies, it is undeniable that a considerable part of the technology, industrial agglomeration and low pollution level of 'small scattered' enterprises really should pay for this bitter fruit.
What is the impact of the end of the 'foreign garbage' import era?
Since 2016, China has successively announced a number of policies to stop importing plastic waste. In July last year, China clearly stated to the WTO that it would ban the import of various types of high-polluting solid waste. In August of the same year, the General Administration of Customs The waste plastics from the source of life will be listed on the banned import list. In this year, the 'forbidden waste order' will be upgraded again. From the end of this year, the import of waste plastics from industrial sources will be banned. The history of importing plastic waste in 26 years will be drawn this year. The period, and the 'forbidden waste', also like the same bombshell, has affected the world.
foreign:
Since the beginning of this year, a number of media in developed countries such as the United States and Japan have begun to show news such as 'China stops importing waste plastics, XX city plastic waste is piled up into mountains', and 'forbidden waste' even once caused waste recycling in the United States, Japan and other countries. The industry is in trouble, and at the same time, due to the increase in transportation costs and the decline in the price of waste plastic raw materials, almost all of the waste plastics trades in these countries are losing money; the power of the 'forbidden waste' is not only reflected in the former upstream market, but also in those that have stopped in China. After importing waste plastics, the countries and regions on the 'replacement' have also caused a lot of influence. The influx of waste plastics has made Southeast Asian countries shout 'impressed', so as to follow China and import waste plastics. A certain current situation has been carried out, and Taiwan has also been dissatisfied with the influx of residents on the island due to the influx of 'foreign garbage'. The authorities have also taken certain measures in the near future.
domestic:
The end of the import era of 'foreign garbage' has made it possible to 'feed the whole'. The raw materials of the domestic recycled plastics industry have disappeared. Under the ban on the import of raw materials and the increasingly strict environmental protection policies in recent years, many small enterprises are difficult to survive. Choose to stop production or close, but for enterprises that can achieve better processing level, technical content and high industrial concentration, domestic 'soil' is not as good as 'foreign garbage' in quality level, but enterprise-owned The higher the technical level or the factors such as the park's blessing, it will not be too difficult to make up the gap in raw materials. At the same time, the domestic 'soil rubbish' will be forced to do the back-end processing, further making the front-end waste disposal work. better.
The end of the import of 'foreign garbage' in China has caused the domestic recycling of recycled plastics industry to undergo different changes and shuffling. According to the data, by 2030, 110 million tons of waste plastics will need to be processed worldwide. Who is the next 'world's largest waste importer'?