Brazil's Rio de Janeiro is known for its large, beautiful beaches and is also plagued by the large amount of plastic waste discarded on the beach. Recently, the city of Rio issued a decree prohibiting all restaurants, bars and snack bars from offering disposable plastic straws to customers. The company will be fined approximately $500 to $2,000.
Disposable plastic products have greatly facilitated our lives, but plastic waste that is difficult to degrade has become an unbearable environmental burden. Controlling white pollution has become a challenge that humans cannot delay. There are two main solutions: One is to reduce Use, the second is scientific recycling.
In 2002, Bangladesh became the first country in the world to ban the use of plastic bags, because in the floods of that year, a large number of plastic bags blocked the sewers and exacerbated the disaster. Currently, more than 40 countries and regions around the world ban or restrict disposable plastic bags. The use of disposable plastic straws has recently been included in the regulatory area. Some cities ban the use of plastic straws. Many food and beverage giants have stopped using plastic straws and switched to alternatives.
Another idea is to develop more scientific and low-cost recycling technologies. A recent UNEP report says that only 9% of the world's 9 billion tons of plastic products are recycled. Most plastic waste is eventually landfilled, incinerated or inflowed. Nature. Recyclable plastics are generally broken down into granules by machining and re-formed into new plastic products. For plastics that are difficult to physically recover, one of the solutions is chemical recycling, which removes the chemicals added during the manufacturing process. Substance and other ingredients, change the plastic back to pure oil. Technically, chemical recovery is not difficult. The problem is that the cost of the prior art is too high to be promoted.
British recycling technology company said it found a solution and developed a chemical recycling technology for plastic waste. This technology can convert plastic waste into low-sulfur hydrocarbon compound Plaxx. Plaxx can be used in many industrial fields. It can be used to produce plastics and synthetic waxes, and can also be used as a fuel for marine vessels instead of heavy fuel oil and diesel. Previous treatments need to be 'zeroed to zero' and transport large quantities of plastic waste to centralized processing plants. Due to the low price of raw materials, there is not enough economic incentive to establish a recycling network. The British company changed its mind and used its technical equipment to realize 'turning waste into treasure' in existing waste treatment plants. Load valuable products into containers and ship them elsewhere.
Currently, Recycling Technologies is building an assembly plant in Swindon, England, and plans to produce 200 chemical recycling equipment per year. The company believes that this equipment can recover costs within three years. It is estimated that by 2027, the company will install 1,700 machines worldwide. Plastic recycling capacity will be expanded to 10 million tons per year.
We don't want to see plastic garbage on beautiful beaches. We don't want marine life to die because we swallow a lot of plastic garbage. We don't want to eat many plastic particles that are invisible to the naked eye. The solution is to change us. The convenience of a convenient lifestyle, on the other hand, is to accelerate the commercialization of chemical recycling technology, to provide a new way to eliminate white pollution.