The development trend of China's recycled plastic industry
The development trend of China's recycled plastic industry
Since the second half of 2014 the price of crude oil continued low, after a period of market response to plastic industry gradually, especially the recent international crude oil prices continued to fall, the plastic is a small falling prices. As a result, downstream demand in the recycled plastic market has shrunk further, and prices have fallen, and corporate profits have fallen, making it a top priority to improve the competitiveness of the recycled plastic industry.
Raw materials are widely
Chen qinghua, secretary general of the China renewable plastic technology innovation alliance, said that in 2013, global plastic production was 299 million tons, of which China ranks first, accounting for 24.8%. The use of plastic products in the year used to be more than 20%, the rate of waste is over 50%. Therefore, the increase of plastic production makes waste plastics more raw materials.
According to the model data, the association plastic recycling branch of China in 2014, the China plastics processing industry enterprises above designated size (sales income in 20 million yuan or more) increased to 13699, the main business revenue, profit, profit tax maintain steady growth. The data shows that the plastic processing industry still obtains reasonable normal growth in meeting the matching demand of national economy.
The raw material of China's recycled plastic comes from abroad, and a lot of it comes from abroad. China is the largest importer of waste plastics in the world, according to the China plastic recycling commission. Since 2000, China's total waste plastic imports have been growing at a high speed. The volume of waste plastic imports rose from 2000.07 million tons in 2000 to 825.4 million tons in 2014, and the overall growth rate of imports in 2015 was 311 percent.
In 2014, China's waste plastic imports were 825.43 million tons, accounting for 18.53% of the total waste. The value of imports amounted to 370.64 billion yuan, accounting for 21.93% of the total import waste.
The growth of the recycled plastic industry is inseparable from the growth of domestic consumption. According to the conservative calculation, China's plastic consumption was 678.5 million tons in 2014, a 9.6 percent increase from 2013. The apparent consumption of the five synthetic resins was 620.89 million tons, accounting for 81 percent of total synthetic resin consumption, up 1.6 percentage points from the previous year.
Regional differentiation
China's recycled plastic industry started in the 1980s and began to grow after the 1990s, and began to grow rapidly after 2000.
At present, China has more than 10,000 manufacturing enterprises engaged in waste plastic processing, and medium-sized or more industrial enterprises are becoming the main body of the recycled plastics industry, ning said.
It is understood that medium-sized and above industrial enterprises mainly import waste plastic enterprises, and their recycling amount accounts for more than 40% of the total regeneration, and most of them are distributed in the developed areas of coastal plastic processing industry. This part of the company has relatively stable waste plastic goods source and sales channel, the resource concentration, the profit is high, the benefit is good, the market competition is strong. A small number of enterprises are distributed in the central and western regions, and are mainly engaged in recycling and recycling domestic waste plastics.
NingGongTao pointed out that at present, the waste plastics recycling and processing of small and medium-sized enterprises quantity is more, but the vast majority belongs to a cottage industry of soho, generally on a smaller scale, in a big city and the integration of urban and rural areas surrounding the cluster to manage. Usually, the technology they adopt is simple and practical, with small profit margins and weak environmental awareness, but logistics costs are low. Cottage industry of soho through market elements assembled and conformity effect, gradually form spontaneous smooth circulation of trade concentration, terminal market, processing trade intensification, specialized division of labor refinement, the logistics distribution to fully market-oriented, with a strong survival and competition ability, the industry has been basically achieved elaboration and industrial chain extension.
According to investigation of recycled plastics industry market analysis report, waste plastic recycling processing enterprises in China regional distribution pattern, at the same time, the waste plastic raw materials also presents the characteristics of regional.
The recycling and processing enterprises of waste plastics in tianjin, hebei and shandong are mainly recycling high grade LDPE films and HDPE materials. Enterprises in zhejiang, Shanghai and jiangsu are mainly recycling clean PET, HDPE, PP and some engineering plastics, and the demand for these plastic varieties is also great. Fujian is very high in demand for LDPE films; Guangdong recycles a large number of engineering plastics and some PE, PP, PET material.
The problem of disorder is outstanding
However, there are some problems in the rapid development of China's renewable plastics industry and enterprises.
The problem for China's recycled plastic enterprises is the large scale of the recycled plastic industry, the number of small enterprises and the small size of enterprises, said ning hongtao. The technology development and application capacity is weak, the technology is backward, the equipment level is low, the resource utilization rate is low; There are secondary pollution and harm to the environment; The classification separation technology is backward, waste of resources and low added value of products.
It is especially noteworthy that domestic recycled plastic recycling processing enterprises have a prominent problem in the import and production of raw materials.
Chen qh said, at present our country thousands of recycled plastic recycling processing enterprises, most of which have no formal import approval, many are not even the eia cottage industry factories and small factory. Based on the physical method and decentralized market structure, the overall environmental protection level of the recycled plastic industry is low, and it is easy to cause secondary pollution. At present, the recycled plastic industry only has prevention and control measures on pollution in mature parks.
Ning hongtao points out that there are four main problems in the technology and management of the recycled plastics industry. First, the sub-quality equipment is backward, and the recovery rate is less than 30%; Secondly, the technical level of resources is low, and the high quality is less than 20%. Third, the recycling technology is not integrated effectively and the industry standard is deficient. Fourth, the lack of effective management mechanism, secondary pollution serious.
Change of industry pattern
In view of some problems existing in the development of renewable plastic industry, on February 1, 2013 to November 30, the national customs conducted a 10-month "hedge" special action, purpose is to do not conform to the requirements of waste plastic block in the bay, regulate domestic industry clean production at the same time.
"The only negative growth in waste plastic imports in 2013 was due to the 'green fence' operation, but it did not affect the import of plastic from recycled plastic companies," ning said. Although some senior enterprises have reduced their imports or transformed into other businesses, enterprises that have applied for the import license of waste plastics have shown a growing trend. By 2014, more than 3,000 registered Chinese waste plastics have been imported and processed.
Chen qinghua said that the national customs "green fence" action has had a profound impact on the current and future domestic renewable plastics industry pattern. First, enterprises engaged in waste plastic processing will have more environmentally friendly processing equipment, which will increase the cost of waste plastic processing enterprises. At the same time, large enterprises will be more easily supported by policies, while small enterprises will gradually lose their living space. Second, some severely polluted small businesses will exit the market, resulting in fewer workers in the recycled plastic industry. Third, the waste plastic regeneration industrial park will play a role, and the long-term development will eventually replace the traditional recycled plastic market.
Healthy and orderly is the direction
It is widely believed in the industry that in the face of the problems that have been highlighted, the recycling industry can only achieve healthy and orderly development by restricting the behavior of the industry.
In the 13th five-year plan period, plastic recycling will become the main theme and important part of the development of the recycled plastic industry, ning said.
, he points out, "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" period, the whole industry industry need to be further expanded, and the transformation and upgrading efforts should also be further increased, especially for new technology, new product development and application of recycled plastic. Only by adapting to national policies and environmental governance policies, the recycled plastics industry can achieve breakthroughs in the improvement of industrial technology, and industrial clusters are gradually regulated and developed.
NingGongTao also said that the current situation put forward new requirements for recycled plastic industry in China: encouraging through mergers and restructuring, joint management, speed up industry consolidation, improve industrial concentration, promote the development of scale; Promote resource, energy intensive, cascade, high efficiency utilization, improve utilization level; Sharing of infrastructure to reduce investment intensity; To promote the centralized treatment of pollution and facilitate pollution control and supervision; Promoting high value utilization of waste plastics; Enhance the competitiveness of the recycled plastic industry. In short, China will need more formalized and large-scale recycled plastic industries.
According to Chen qinghua, in the new normal, the recycled plastic industry needs to do four aspects.
First, protect the environment as the primary task of industry development. Recycling waste plastics, import, dismantling, logistics, transportation, processing, use and remanufacturing of each link, adhere to the people-oriented, ecological priority, put an end to all at the expense of the environment and health behavior.
Second, use high value as the survival of industry development. Strengthen recycled plastic green recycling, modified dismantling device safety, high quality, high value with each link of technical innovation, actively carry out technological upgrading, improve the efficiency of resource utilization, improve technical standards and product value recycled plastic products, expand the profit space, enhance the overall competition ability of the industry.
Third, deep development of domestic urban mineral resources. "Internet", to develop renewable resources especially renewable plastic big data mining, implementing the resources sharing, information and technology industry linkage, through the integration of new Internet financial thinking, innovative industry development model. Depth development of domestic "urban mining" and solid waste resources, improving the recycling system construction, and put in more effort to further improve the electronic waste and automobile components and dismantling, living garbage and papermaking sludge bulk solid waste resource utilization technology route, all of them, and through the circle area management implementation green cycle, using the modified plastics technology for high use value.
Fourth, encourage the import of recycled plastic. Ideas, and actively the development of the recycled plastic industry into the big country "area" development pattern, make full use of national policy and the industry has been the key technology and equipment advantages, encourage conditional enterprises and scientific research units to form a company, with the technology abroad, to establish the international renewable plastic industrial park, the new world of industry development, efforts to put more clean and high quality recycled plastic added to the national strategic resource requirements.
