Recycling of waste plastics in China Situation and Development Trend

With the plastic a large number of applications,abandoned, is a major source of recycled plastics.
into the twenty-first century, plastics recyclingThis is similar to foreign countries, such as the
industry in China increasingly prosperous marketUnited Kingdom in 2001 the amount of plastic
of SMEs, such as springs appeared, investmentpackaging for the plastics recycling 91.2% of the
activity, from the previous family workshopstotal amount recovered. There are also a number
Recycling plastic model of the forward marketof recycling or recovery of little value in the high
demand-driven business model of pure changes,cost of disposal of a greater degree of difficulty,
and is developing a recycling process clustering,such as plastic composite, ultra-thin packaging
market transactions are intensive in order tomaterial, plastic film, disposable plastic products
completely depend on market demand andsuch as impact on the environment should not be
price-driven environment-oriented industrialoverlooked. But, like plastic pipe fittings, profiles,
economy. At present, the number of plasticsenhance their anti-seepage geotechnical materials
recycling companies have tens of thousands of(including waterproofing membrane), etc. In recent
recycling outlets throughout the country, hasyears, the use of structural plastic materials grew
formed a number of large-scale renewable plasticslarger, the actual service life is longer, the current
recycling market and processing hub, mainly inperiod of less than a large number of scrap
Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Shandong,Therefore, this part of the waste volume is not
Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Liaoning and other provincessignificant. Home appliances according to their
in the plastics processing industry developed. Onenormal service life of 10 to 15 years was required
Zhejiang Yuyao, Ningbo, Dongyang, Cixi, Taizhou;to scrap the TV for more than an annual average
Nanhai, Guangdong, Dongguan, Shunde, Shantou;of 5 million sets, washing machines, an annual
Xinghua, Jiangsu, Changzhou, Taicang, Lianyungang,average of 5 million units, about 400 million
Xuzhou; wen'an Hebei, Baoding, Xiongrefrigerators a year, this will be phased out in
County, Yutian; Shandong Laizhou, Zhangqiu, Linyi;China each year more than 1,500 million units of
Henan Anyang, Ge, Luohe; five river in Anhui andwaste appliances. In recent years, electronic
other places of recycled plastics recycling,communications equipment such as computers,
processing, management and increasing marketmobile phones, VCD, DVD, records, CDs and
size, annual turnover was mostly in the hundredsother replacement faster sharp rise in the number
of millions to billions of dollars, was booming trend.of annual retirement brought a more serious
In major cities around the country such as Beijing,environmental problems. Plastic is an important
Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Wuhan,component of household electrical appliances,
Nanjing, Hefei, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Kunming,according to the ratio in Table 4 estimated that
Chengdu, Shenyang, Urumqi and other parts haveevery year the resulting recycled plastic that can
a large number of similar processing, tradingbe at least 15 million tons, If we take into account
gathering places. In recycled plastics recycling andthe Waste Electrical and communications
processing enterprises and large and steadyequipment that can be recycled plastic volume,
increase in the number of personnel, mainly basedthe figure of about 20 million t. The main
on the self-employed and farmers, there are acomponents of recycled plastic polypropylene
number of other sectors investors. plastics(PP), polystyrene (PS), polyvinyl chloride (PVC),
recycling industry for rural economic growth,ABS and so on, the value of a larger recycling;
employment for surplus rural labor force, andwhile some thermosetting plastics, polyurethane
increase revenue to provide a channel forfoam, glass fiber reinforced plastic materials is
resource recycling, environmental protection hasrelatively difficult to recover. Waste disposal of
made tremendous contributions to the cause, ishousehold appliances and reasonable during the
an important part of the environmental protectionregeneration of recycled plastic is one of its
industry is based on recycled plastics in their endimportant aspects. Different home appliances
of life After the still has a recycling value of theproducts by supporting different types of plastics,
existence of different forms of plastic, almost allthe same product manufacturers are used in
thermoplastics have recycling value. In thedifferent types of plastics are not the same, and
synthetic resin production processes, products andsometimes the same kind of plastic and additives
semi-finished products in plastic production andused in the functional master batch or a different
processing process, the logistics process andformula, which gives home appliance plastic
consumers in the plastic after use recycledrecycling work to a certain degree of difficulty
plastics are produced. In general the synthesis,should be taken seriously, and strive to be an
processing, generated in the process known asefficient recycling, to minimize environmental
pre-consumer plastic; put through the circulationstress and waste of energy. Electrical and
and consumption, resulting from the use of theelectronic matching plastic parts are already used
known post-consumer plastic. Produced a smallby more than 100 million tons, in the industrial
amount of pre-consumer plastic, quality andpackage, information, transportation, aviation and
stability, renewable high-value, generally in theaerospace fields are widely used, the product
production process to be handled properly, can beupgrading soon. With a large number of these
completely reused. We are talking aboutproducts gradually enter retirement, becoming an
post-consumer recycled plastics generally refersimportant source of waste plastics. Manufacture
to loss of use value of the recycled plasticof plastic auto parts The greatest benefit is to
products that can be recycled. Plastic recycled,reduce the vehicle weight, saving costs and
concentrated, classification, scientific andprocesses to improve the car some performance,
reasonable disposition of available renewable afterthe developed countries the average car with a
the value of achieving recycling. Import of wasteplastic over 100kg, car is scrapped cars will bring
plastic in the part of an overseas pre-consumerplastic recycling of resources and the right
plastic, the quality is better, higher-value can beEnvironmental and reasonable deal with problems.
used as renewable raw materials should beAccording to authoritative auto industry experts
encouraged to import large quantities. The largestpredict that in 2005 China's auto output will
category of sources of recycled plastic varietiesreach 5.7 million in 2006, the total demand for
plastic film (including plastic packaging bags andcars will reach 6.5 million. The average use of
plastic), plastic wire, and woven materials, foamautomotive plastics in China reached 70, the
products, plastic packaging and containers, cableannual consumption of more than 40 million tons.
coating materials and a variety of householdAutomotive plastic varieties: PVC, PP, PE, PU,
goods, sports entertainment, health care andABS, PA, POM, etc.. As the car is scrapped the
other household plastic products, including film,amount increased year by year, automotive
foam, boxes and containers, knitting, sheets andplastics and appliances, and electrical and electronic
other plastic products mainly used in plasticplastics, like the amount of the steady increase in
packaging. There are also some other plasticits recycling of waste plastics using the same
packaging products (such as plastic tray),sources as the focus of treatment is similar in
agricultural plastic products (such as water-savingprinciple. By 2010, China's automotive
equipment, agricultural plastic), plastic decorationplastics need to use will be around 80 million tons.
products have a higher rate of obsolescence.Therefore, scrap automotive plastic parts,
Plastic packaging consumption in 2004 of 6.344recycling will become increasingly difficult for the
million tons in 2005, more than 7 million tons, it istask.
estimated that at least 80% within a year were