Since this year, the substantial increase in the price of plastic raw materials, triggering a renewed boom in plastic recycling. Waste plastics processed into particles, only to change its appearance and shape, and did not change its chemical properties, still has a good comprehensive material properties, can meet the blow molding, drawing, pulling pipe, injection molding, extrusion profiles and other technical requirements, a large number of applications in the production of plastic products. China is a large country of plastic consumption, a variety of used plastic packaging, shopping bags, plastic pots, plastic bottles and other plastic waste can be found everywhere, the recovery of these for reproduction, not only to reduce environmental pollution, but also will make the relevant enterprises to significantly reduce the cost of raw materials, increase profits. A medium-sized agricultural film factory needs about 1,000 tons of high-pressure polyethylene raw materials each year, this raw material across the country in the plastic market in the previous period, the average price of 7,000 yuan / ton, and its recycling of recycled particles after the average price of only 3,800 yuan / ton, a difference of 3,200 yuan. That is to say, as long as the film plant half of the procurement of recycled plastic particles, raw material costs a year can save 1.6 million yuan, why not? Moreover, now the new production out of the plastic raw material prices are so high, more plastic products factory to purchase raw materials to the eyes of the recycled plastic. In addition to the recycled plastics industry from the domestic acquisition of waste plastics, but also look abroad. At present, most of the waste plastic import declaration price of only two or three hundred U.S. dollars / ton, even if the import tariffs and transportation costs and then processed in the domestic sales, still profitable. Since this year, China's imports of waste plastics has grown significantly, only the first half of Liaoning Province imported 23,600 tons, an increase of 78.8% year-on-year, valued at $ 6,094,000, an increase of 120% year-on-year. Due to the large domestic demand, but also caused the rise in prices of imported scrap plastics, the first half of Liaoning Province, the average price of imported scrap plastics for 259 U.S. dollars / ton, up 22.7% over the same period last year, at the highest level in recent years. Scrap plastic is the raw material of plastic recycling industry, through the above data, people can feel the heat of this industry right now.
In China, the plastic recycling industry has a bright future. The plastics industry is the pillar of the national economy, recycling is the road to sustainable development of the plastics industry. Plastic recycling can save resources, ease the contradiction between the supply and demand of plastic raw materials, and can make an important contribution to environmental protection. It is understood that a medium-sized city produced a year of plastic waste, recycling can meet the raw material needs of twenty small and medium-sized plastic products enterprises. And our country has obviously not done enough in this regard. The former State Economic and Trade Commission made statistics, "Ninth Five-Year Plan" period, China has about 14 million tons of waste plastics each year are not recycled, recycling rate of only 25%, direct waste of resources up to 28 billion yuan / year. Let the plastic recycling industry healthy and sustainable development, is a good thing for the country and the people. It should be said that this industry has made considerable progress in recent years, some places to form a certain scale, the local government to make the best use of the situation, cultivating an annual output value of hundreds of millions of dollars of recycled plastics industrial park. It is expected that the government will play its role better by introducing relevant regulations and standards to properly guide the recycling of waste plastics. The operators of this industry to improve production technology, science and technology into the production to improve product quality, create brand-name products, while paying attention to saving resources, to prevent environmental pollution, both for their own benefit, but also for the benefit of society.