More and more plastic waste is entering the natural environment, threatening human health and global sustainable development. How to regenerate the plastic clean cycle? KEBIDA actively explores the rebirth of plastic recycling, provides technological innovation and green solutions for the development of plastic circular economy, and promotes the full life cycle management of plastics.
1. Background
The "Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060" report released by the OECD in 2022 points out that global plastic use in 2060 is expected to triple that of 2019, and plastic waste will also increase nearly three times. About 8-12% of global plastics are recycled, and most of the rest is dumped in landfills or discharged into the environment, causing serious pollution and health problems to the environment.
In this context, developing a circular economy and exploring new green and low-carbon paths have become important goals for various countries. In order to promote the recycling rate and promote the plastic circular economy, countries have begun to launch goals that encourage the use or even require the use of recycled plastics, so that discarded plastics can be reborn in new scenarios and have economic, environmental, and social values.
2. China recycled plastics
China is one of the world's largest consumers of plastics and one of the major producers and consumers of recycled plastics. With the improvement of environmental protection awareness and the support of government policies, the demand for China's recycled plastics market has shown a steady growth trend. At the same time, consumer demand for green and environmentally friendly products continues to increase, and recycled plastics are increasingly used in packaging, home appliances, automobiles, plastic product production, building materials, textiles and other fields, further promoting the growth of demand in China's recycled plastics market . In addition, the price of recycled plastics in China has certain advantages compared with international prices, so recycled plastics are attracting more and more attention from enterprises and consumers. The production capacity of China's recycled plastics industry is constantly expanding.
3. China’s plastic recycling sources and recycling applications
According to statistics and calculations of waste plastic recycling in 2021, the main sources of waste plastics include electrical and electronic products, waste lunch boxes, automobile waste plastics, waste PET, etc.
4. Outlook
Plastic circular economy refers to an economic model that reduces resource consumption and environmental pollution and achieves sustainable development by recycling waste plastics. In the future, the development of plastic circular economy will require the active participation and joint efforts of governments, enterprises and all parties in society to achieve maximum utilization of resources and maximum protection of the environment.
