"Xiao Li, I haven't taken goods from your family for a long time. How many recycled materials do you have in hand? Please give me several tons."

"Sorry, Brother Wang, the family has turned to plastic products production, do not do this raw material."

"Why are the people who used to do this on your side either changing careers or not doing it?"

"The ban on the introduction of the ban and with the Ministry of Environmental Protection strict inspection, do not change the industry will have to stop production."

"It's like this......"

In recent years, for the plastic people who are still in the recycled plastic industry, it can be said that they are in a difficult situation all the way forward. Due to the high pressure of environmental protection policies and the "ban on waste" that came into effect last year, this industry is experiencing unprecedented development difficulties. How to continue to develop the recycled plastic industry has become a heart problem for everyone who recyles plastics.

Environmental protection high pressure "one size fits all", recycled plastic people suffering

In recent years, with the domestic attention to environmental protection and pollution control, environmental protection departments in various regions have intensified the supervision of the various enterprises that cause pollution. Due to the implementation of the write-off system is quite strict, those "scattered pollution" production enterprises are naturally facing the disposal of production shutdown, but there are also some recycled plastic manufacturers said: "If we follow this approach, many small and medium-sized enterprises in the recycled plastics industry will be shut down." Strict environmental supervision is a good thing, but to deal with everything in a simple and crude "one-size-fits-all" way is undoubtedly a contradiction between artificial manufacturing enterprises and environmental protection departments, which is not careless for the great cause of pollution control.

At the end of last month, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said that in the process of environmental law enforcement, we should emphasize the fact as the basis, the law as the criterion, adhere to the reality of everything, according to the law. Enterprises that have gone through legal procedures and meet the requirements for ecological and environmental protection shall not be allowed to suspend production. For enterprises that have legal procedures but do not meet the requirements of ecological and environmental protection, targeted measures should be taken according to specific problems; Enterprises that do not have legal procedures and fail to meet the requirements of ecological and environmental protection will be dealt with according to law and regulations. Even heavily polluting enterprises will be given advice and a time limit for rectification, and only those enterprises that have no hope of rectification or even refuse to rectify their problems will be firmly shut down in accordance with the law.

Although the current "one-size-fits-all" approach to the environmental authorities cannot be completely eradicated, it may also provide a respite for those under pressure to recycle plastic.

'Ban on Waste' Makes recycled plastics industry 'Fit for purpose'

The whirlpool of recycled plastics industry is not only under the pressure of environmental protection policies, since last year, the "waste ban" has become a burden on the practitioners of recycled plastics.

China is one of the largest waste plastic recycling countries in the world, according to the data, only domestic imports of waste plastics accounted for half of global waste plastic exports. Such a huge amount of waste plastic resources in the past period of time to provide a large number of raw materials for the domestic recycled plastic industry, but last year, the implementation of the "ban on waste", the domestic recycled plastic industry can get less and less "foreign waste" resources, and this year, the "ban on waste" upgraded again, after December 31 this year, The import of waste plastic resources from industrial sources will also be banned, which will put an end to the more than 20-year history of the domestic recycled plastic industry relying on imported "foreign waste". This also means that the domestic recycled plastics industry will blow the wind of "survival of the fittest, those who are not fit will be eliminated". How to stand firm in this strong wind and continue to move forward is an urgent problem for all manufacturers in the industry to think about.

The "crisis" of the industry is sometimes a turning point, and the shortage of raw materials also forces the domestic recycled plastic industry. In addition to the enterprises that have stopped production and transformed, some enterprises have begun to establish their own recycling system in China to make up the raw material gap of "foreign waste" with "local waste", and some investors choose to build factories abroad. The "foreign waste" that cannot enter the country will be processed into pellets and re-imported.

Strict environmental protection policies and the "ban on waste" have eliminated a large number of domestic recycled plastics industry unwell. Those who still persist and stand firm in the whirlpool need to think deeply and face how to speed up the construction of their own recycling system and ensure the stability of raw material supply. And how to cooperate with environmental protection policies, towards the standardized, orderly, green and sustainable development track.