Recycling of waste plastics generates a renewable economy
Recycling of waste plastics generates a renewable economy
Usually after the drink, we throw the bottle, we throw it into the trash can, and we seldom care about its next fate. If "we can recycle our discarded beverage bottles, we're actually producing a new oil field." "Every recycling of one ton of used plastic bottles saves six tons of oil," said yao yaxiong, managing director of Beijing yingchuang renewable resources co., LTD. Yingchuang can recycle 50,000 tons of plastic bottles annually, which is equivalent to saving 300,000 tons of oil per year.
Renewable resources since the 1990 s, the international science and technology and recycled plastic industry has been developing rapidly, many multinational companies have begun to use in its products a certain percentage of polyester raw materials (i.e., waste plastic bottles) : Coca-Cola's plan to this year in the United States, for example, the 25% of all the cola bottles renewable components; Tesco, a British retailer, USES 100% recycled material in some markets. France evian introduced 25% of the recycled polyester in mineral water bottles in 2008... At present, the bottle grade polyester chip of yingchuang company has been supplied to Coca-Cola company, and one in 10 coke bottles comes from yingchuang. A number of international companies, including danone of France and adidas ag, are also in talks with yingchuang.
Last summer, when kaka and ronaldo were training for the World Cup in South Africa, they were wearing yellow shirts made from eight old coke bottles. As early as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Coca-Cola made a batch of "green" t-shirts to athletes from the Olympic village, and the sleeves of the T-shirt were funny to say "five coke bottles in there".
In shunyi, Beijing, a company specializing in recycling waste plastic bottles is Beijing yingchuang renewable resources co., LTD. Guo xin, the company's executive director, calculated that Beijing had 150,000 tonnes of waste bottles per year, or 40,000 bottles per tonne, which alone would produce six billion discarded plastic bottles a year. Where did all the bottles go? Will it be made from discarded beverage bottles, or will they be used in food packaging? In the past, domestic enterprises almost always chose the former, and foreign enterprises such as Japanese emperors have both. Ying chuang only chose the latter.
"Bottle to bottle", "we only do the waste bottle is made of food grade polyester chip, and produce a new bottle, the bottle after use, to do slices, such, resources can be repeated cycle." Yao is the introduction. Guo also said she did not want to use recycled materials as clothes because the discarded beverage bottles were simply broken, and that they could not be recycled after they were reduced to short fibers or woven bags.
Yingchuang's neat and spacious yard is neatly stacked with a row of nearly four-metre old stacked old bottles. A dirty plastic bottle here, after a series process, into or transparent slice, or crystal particles, which we often see plastic bottles can be used to direct production. This kind of closed-loop recalized-interest model is also the typical pattern of recycling economic renewable resources industry.
Mr. Yao told reporters that the current production line, which is based in different countries in Europe, forms a whole production line through the integration innovation of yingchuang. Now, the production line of yingchuang is the only one in Asia and the largest single production line in the world. And surplus and the production of products not only completely accord with the requirement of national standard in our country, and even made the us food and drug administration (FDA) and European ILSI) (international life science institute standard authentication, became the only Chinese have the production capacity of enterprises.
Now, surplus and also begin localization on equipment research and development, the company in the future in itself is not only a renewable plastic production enterprises, can also be other providers of similar enterprise's technology, equipment management.
After the market access problem has been solved, the cost problem brought by the recycling system has made yingchuang such a "regular army" headache.
Compared with the European Union and the United States, China has a tradition of waste utilization because of its large population and shortage of resources.
As a result, yingchuang has invested in the waste plastic recycling enterprises that use international advanced technology, and the small workshops that have been cleaned and crushed with simple equipment have produced the competition of raw materials. Due to "little pieces" simple and crude equipment, the artificial cost is low, low processing cost, and don't have to pay taxes and sewage, raw material market price, but the result is a personal profit, only to society is easy to cause the secondary pollution and environmental damage.
According to yao, the cost of producing recycled polyester chips is the same as that of foreign countries, while the cost of raw materials is more than three times that of foreign countries. If you can't get a better price than the raw material manufacturer, it's hard to take advantage of the fierce market competition. To obtain sufficient high-quality raw materials, full and then formed their own professional recycling system, have yao's home in Beijing and two professional recycling Han Guchuan sorting center, recycle, pretreatment, packaging, etc. At the same time, yingchuang will also set up a "drink can paid recycling machine" in public places such as communities and supermarkets. At that time, people will only use the used soda bottles in the recycling machine, the amount can be charged to people's bus CARDS.
