What are the missing links in recycling packaging?

Third, China's paper packaging recycling serious shortage

With the advancement of science and technology, the use of paper packaging recycling has become more and more widespread. At present, it has even developed into racks, table tennis bats, trash cans, envelopes, desks, garden fences, park wooden bridges, shoes insoles, and so on. Shenzhen Green Shield Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. has established a research and promotion system for color music board products. In Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing cities have successively launched fruit bins made of color music boards. The main raw material for color music boards is the past. The abandoned Tetra Pak.

Shanghai Caile Environmental Products Co., Ltd. has used waste composite paper packaging to produce recycled products such as trash cans, outdoor flooring, desks and chairs, and industrial pallets. Shanghai Caile Environmental Products Co., Ltd. directly crushes and extrudes waste plastic packaging into "plastic wood." Since the composite paper packaging material already contains plastics, fibers and other substances, it is the best use of it to produce plastic wood. Indoor furniture, outdoor anti-theft trash cans, and outdoor gardening facilities are the products of the director of "plastic wood." The industrial pallets produced by Shanghai Caile Company have also become an alternative to air transport because of their high strength and light weight. Tetra Pak introduced the technology and experience of overseas composite paper packaging recycling to Chinese companies, and also introduced the practices of Shanghai Choi Lok Environmental Products Co. to foreign countries.

Tomas Svensson, director of environmental protection for the Asia-Pacific region of Tetra Pak International, has assisted some companies in developing a new waste recycled paper packaging recycling and production line, which has already been put into use. However, these production lines do not maximize their operations, and their current biggest problems It is "not enough to eat," and it costs a few cents for packaging. It is difficult to raise the habit of the public to collect milk packaging for selling or redeeming other items. It is the company's most troublesome problem now to open up more recycling points.

Shanghai Choi Lok started product production in April 2004. The factory has set up three production lines. If it is operating at full capacity, it can handle 10 tons of waste milk containers each day. However, in fact, only a few hundred kilograms were processed in April 2004. Although there was an increase every month thereafter, by the end of 2004, only a total of more than 100 tons had been processed. The Fulun Paper Mill in Fuyang City in Hangzhou launched the “Compound Paper Packaging Hydropulping and Plastic Granulation Project” in 2004. It uses waste composite paper packaging to produce pulp and plastic pellets. Its monthly processing capacity is 300 tons of waste bags. However, only about 10 tons can be recovered per month, and the remaining processing capacity can only be used to process conventional waste paper.

At present, Shanghai Caile has begun to collect recycled post-consumer composite paper packaging in some communities in Xujiahui, Jing'an and Putuo through cooperation with the sanitation and community neighborhood committees. Although Shanghai Caile purchases waste packages at a price of 800-1000 yuan/ton, the amount of recycling is still limited, which cannot meet the demand for existing production capacity.

People concerned have appealed that the development of China’s circular economy needs recycling companies, and it also needs the attention of the public and all sectors of society. In particular, it is necessary to use the power of schools, neighborhood communities, waste recycling systems, sanitation systems, and environmental protection volunteers to jointly recycle waste packets. It is fully utilized.
In order to change this situation with the current efforts of all parties to vigorously promote environmental protection, Tetra Pak held a large-scale environmental public welfare activity in Shanghai in June 2005 with the theme of “recycling Tetra Pak, happy to do environmental protection” and publicizing the benefits to consumers. Recyclable music paper packaging and superior environmental characteristics, to "happy environmental protection" concept, to promote the recycling of Tetra Pak packaging recycling.

The recycling of paper packaging is a systematic project that requires the joint efforts of all sectors of society to establish a sound and effective recycling system as soon as possible.

Fourth, foreign paper packaging recycling development

Brazil, which is also a developing country, has formed a waste recycling system consisting of government, non-government organizations, business alliances, community people, scavengers, and recycling companies. The reuse rate of waste beverage boxes has reached 20%. The United Kingdom has started the recycling of large-scale recycled beverage paper packaging. In May 2005, the media reported that the paper packaging manufacturer Smith Anderson recently invested 500,000 pounds in the construction of a new plant for recycling paper packaging. It can be seen that the recycling of paper packaging has become an inevitable trend in the packaging industry. 70% of this investment is provided by the British Liquid Food Packaging Association. The newly built packaging recycling and recycling plant can produce 18,000 tons of recycled paper packaging paper each year. “It is not a technical problem that currently limits the recycling of paper packaging in the United Kingdom,” said Richard Tetrapa, a big company producing paper packaging. He believes that while comprehensively raising the issue of national consciousness, it must also create conditions for a comprehensive social environment that facilitates the recycling of paper packaging, as well as conduct a large number of advertisements and advertisements to make recycling possible. This is an indispensable condition.

The Japanese government formulated the "Container Packaging Recycling Act" in 1995, which clearly stipulated that manufacturers and consumers are obliged to recycle various kinds of packaging waste and recycle them. Consumers should place the waste at a designated place at a designated time and be regularly recycled by the relevant local government authority or a designated recycling company and sent to a designated factory for processing and utilization. In addition, the Japanese government has also formulated the Basic Law for the Promotion of Recycling Society, the Waste Disposal Law, the Law on Promotion of the Utilization of Resources, the Law on the Recycling of Home Appliances, the Law on the Recycling of Food, and the Law on Automobile Recycling. Wait. The formulation and implementation of these laws have played an important role in the effective use of resources and environmental protection.

In a department store or supermarket in Japan, it can be seen that the packaging of food, beverages, and other household items is basically an ordinary paper box, but the design of these boxes is not only convenient and practical, but also the pattern and color match are very harmonious and beautiful. It is also exquisite, which has virtually improved the quality of the goods, and also increased the value of the goods in people's minds. Although Japan has not yet established a legal system that obliges consumers to pay a deposit in advance, and returns the deposit after the packaging is returned, Japan has already implemented such industry regulations. Many vending machines have also adopted the same basic practice. The price of a box of paper-based drinks contains a deposit of 10 yen. When the consumer finishes drinking, the folded paper is put into the automatic recycling machine next to it, and the deposit will be deposited. Automatic return.

In countries where waste paper recycling is relatively mature, there is a set of strict recovery legal systems: for papermaking companies, compulsory use must use a certain amount of waste paper as production raw materials; for recycling companies, the government must provide certain subsidies to ensure that they are normal Operation can obtain reasonable economic benefits; to the consumers, the administrative law enforcement department will conduct spot checks at any time, and if the waste paper is not sent to the designated collection office according to the requirements, a fine shall be imposed. Germany has developed a "recycling economy law" to promote the recycling of packaging materials: Denmark has taken the lead in implementing the "green tax" system.



Source: Big Food Network