Since the beginning of this year, the price of plastic raw materials has risen sharply, triggering a plastic recycling boom. After the waste plastics are processed into particles, only their appearance shape is changed, but their chemical characteristics are not changed. They still have good comprehensive material properties, can meet the technical requirements of blow molding, wire drawing, tube drawing, injection molding and extrusion, and are widely used in the production of plastic products. China is a big consumer of plastics, and plastic packaging, shopping bags, plastic pots, plastic bottles and other waste plastic wastes can be seen everywhere. Recycling these for reproduction can not only reduce environmental pollution, but also greatly reduce the cost of raw materials and increase profits for related enterprises. A medium-sized agricultural film factory needs about 1000 tons of high-pressure polyethylene raw materials every year. The average price of this raw material in the plastic market all over the country some time ago was 7000 yuan/ton, while the average price of recycled particles was only 3800 yuan/ton, a difference of 3200 yuan. In other words, as long as half of this agricultural film factory purchases recycled plastic granules, it can save raw material costs by 6.5438+0.6 million yuan a year. Why not? What's more, at present, the price of newly produced plastic raw materials is so high that plastic products factories turn their attention to purchasing raw materials to recycled plastics. The recycled plastics industry not only buys waste plastics from China, but also looks abroad. At present, the declared import price of most waste plastics is only 200-300 USD/ton. Even with import duties and transportation costs, processing and sales in China are still profitable. Since the beginning of this year, the import of waste plastics in China has increased significantly. In the first half of this year alone, Liaoning imported 23,600 tons, up 78.8% year-on-year, valued at 6.094 million US dollars, up 1.20% year-on-year. Due to the large domestic demand, the price of imported waste plastics has also risen. In the first half of the year, the average price of imported waste plastics in Liaoning Province was $259/ton, up by 22.7% over the same period of last year, which was the highest level in recent years. Waste plastic is the raw material of plastic recycling industry. Through the above data, people can feel the current heat of this industry.
In China, the plastic recycling industry has a bright future. The plastic industry is the pillar of the national economy, and recycling is the only way for the sustainable development of the plastic industry. Plastic recycling can not only save resources, alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand of plastic raw materials, but also make important contributions to environmental protection. It is understood that the plastic waste produced by a medium-sized city in one year can meet the raw material needs of 20 small and medium-sized plastic products enterprises after recycling. However, China has obviously not done enough in this regard. According to the statistics of the former State Economic and Trade Commission, during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, about140,000 tons of waste plastics were not recycled every year in China, with a recovery rate of only 25%, and the direct resource waste was as high as 28 billion yuan/year. It is a good thing for the country and the people to make the plastic recycling industry develop healthily and continuously. It should be said that this industry has made great progress in recent years, and some places have formed a certain scale. The local government has cultivated a recycled plastic industrial park with an annual output value of several hundred million yuan. It is expected that the government will give full play to its functions, introduce relevant regulations and standards, and correctly guide the recycling of waste plastics. Operators in this industry should improve production technology, integrate science and technology into production, improve product quality and build brand products, and at the same time pay attention to saving resources and preventing environmental pollution, which will not only bring benefits to themselves, but also benefit the society.