With the reduction in opportunities to export plastic waste, the 'authenticity' of UK plastic recycling data is increasingly being reviewed. Roger Benham said that 'misleading is unreasonable' reports will only increase the challenges facing the plastics industry, More in-depth observation and then passed to the mainstream media to avoid further damage to the domestic plastics industry enterprises and regulatory authorities.
From an expert's point of view, he understands some of the problems currently facing the plastic recycling industry in the UK. For those involved in the plastics industry, the tone in many people in the plastics recycling and waste sector is whether we are facing the UK. The 'end of the world' of plastic packaging waste exports, in the past decade, plastic waste exports have increasingly strengthened the UK's ability to meet the EU's ability to recover tar.
The restrictions on solid waste imports announced by China 12 months ago have led to the emergence of new markets in Asia. Plastic recycling activities have been transferred to countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. Therefore, about 60% of plastic packaging will be recycled in the UK for continued export. .
However, since the release of the second quarter of 2018 data, measures have been introduced to further restrict the import of recycled plastic waste into these countries, from developed countries with crowded ports filled with low-quality plastic waste. In addition, illegal wastes from Poland are suspected. The investigation report of the goods was disclosed, about 1,000 tons of waste was used for recycling and was sent back to the UK.
The National Audit Office has been highly criticizing the UK's recycling strategy and has responded to many recycling group concerns, including recommendations to encourage plastic recycling in reform proposals. What the system reform can do is provide the lowest cost compliance, but just as As we have seen in the mainstream news media, the environmental consequences of a flawed system that encourages low-quality polluting household waste exports will be largely unregulated.
In addition to the economic consequences of the export-oriented recycling strategy that has helped drive the collapse of so many UK household plastic recycling facilities over the past few years, one of the real problems is that there is no real understanding of what plastic packaging to export. British recyclers also do not require the declaration of plastic packaging or the type of polymer they recycle. Therefore, it is not fully understandable what kind of infrastructure capacity is required to recycle various plastic packaging in the UK.