Beijing plastic waste does not need to be recycled?

A few days ago, the reporter interviewed Maqiao Bridge in Tongzhou, Beijing. Local residents reported to reporters that an environmentally-friendly waste plastic recycling company that had a thriving and prosperous people had been forced to stop production due to lack of support from the government. Now. They suggested that the media could call for them to save the environmental company.

According to residents, we came to this Beijing Green Green Waste Plastic Recycling Company. What catches the eyes of reporters is the fading door, disorganized factory area and rusty equipment. Face to face this situation, it is hard to believe that this is North China's largest and most famous waste plastic recycling processing base.

At the interview site, we met Dong Jinshi, one of the original company heads responsible for the recycling of foamed cutlery, and he sensibly told us about the company's unfortunate experience from its prosperity. In 1997, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Environmental Protection and the Bureau of Industry and Commerce jointly issued the "Notice on the Recycling of Discarded Disposable Plastic Meal Boxes", requiring all units and individuals in Beijing to manufacture or distribute disposable plastic boxes to be self-employed or entrust others. Responsible for the recycling of waste lunch boxes, otherwise it will cancel its qualifications for producing and distributing disposable plastic lunch boxes in Beijing. The document requires that the recovery rate must reach 30% in 1988, 50% in 1999, and 60% in 2000.

This document in Beijing indicates that an opportunity has come. Some companies are optimistic about this market. Beijing Tonghao Plastic Products Co., Ltd., Tianjin Yuxin Plastic Packaging Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhengyao Gaopo Disposable Tableware Co., Ltd., and Beijing Yanqi Central Chemicals Co., Ltd., etc., shared a recovery fund according to their production capacity (before and after a total of 2000 yuan of input recovery funds) Millions of dollars), Beijing Green Green Plastic Recycling Co., Ltd. was established, and invested 5 million yuan to import cleaning, crushing and granulating equipment from the Taiwan region. Since September 1997, Beijing Kaifa Environmental Protection Center voluntarily assumed The public welfare work for recycling discarded foamed lunch boxes.

Recalling the glory of the past, Dong Jinshi was overwhelmed with emotion. At the time, discarded foamed lunch boxes not only achieved a higher percentage of recycling, but they were already 100% recycled. They set up 10 recycling stations in Beijing to pay for the recycling of discarded plastic lunch boxes. The discarded plastic lunch boxes have been transformed into treasures. They immediately turned waste into treasure in the eyes of a group of “broken kings”. More than 1,000 people used it at that time. For the industry, where the highest monthly income amounts to several thousand yuan, and with the growth of discarded lunch boxes, the monthly recovery rate at the 10 recycling points also increases month by month, and the recovery volume is basically stable at around 150 tons. At the same time, the company’s first batch of recycled plastic pellets has been transformed into stationery, tape cassettes, and other products at plastic processing plants. Dong Jinshi, the person in charge of the plant, said: “At that time, our business was booming. The large plastic processing plants came to buy long queues of plastic granules. There were tens of thousands of yuan in income per month for selling plastic pellets.”

However, due to the confusion in the recovery of waste products, the country has no clear policy in this area, and even the best companies lack sufficient stamina. After being struggling for four years, Beijing Green Green Plastic Recycling Plant was forced to close down due to the backlog of abandoned waste products and the shortage of funds.

Why do well-end companies fail? Dong Jinshi, who was once in charge of the recycling of disposable foam plastic utensils, said: “The recycling of foam tableware must be approved by the State Environmental Protection Administration and the Beijing Municipal Government in 1997. In the process of implementation, it has obtained foam plastic tableware manufacturers. With strong support, each company pays a certain recovery fee according to the sales volume of its products in the Beijing market, and an average of two yuan per kilogram of foamed lunch boxes is paid to the common people, which greatly improves the enthusiasm of waste recycling personnel and the recycling rate reaches 60 More than % has had a positive impact at home and abroad, but due to the proliferation of white pollution, the country has issued a document that completely prohibits the production of foamed plastic tableware. It once stipulated that the policy of “who produces, who sells, and who recycles” is also lost. The significance is that some foaming tableware companies will no longer pay for recycling costs, and the end result is that recycling is difficult to carry out.” Industry sources told reporters: “Recycling 1 ton of foamed lunch boxes and waste plastics requires 2,000 yuan, while producing 1 ton of plastic granules. Only about 1,200 yuan can be earned. If the government does not receive policy support, the closure of the company is inevitable. The second reason is that the management of waste plastic recycling industry is very chaotic and disorderly.

When the reporter learned from the investigation, it was learned that the recycling of environmental protection recycling companies was not the only one in Beijing. Does Beijing really need a plastic recycling company? In actual fact, disposable tableware and plastic products on the Beijing market have only increased. Beijing produces more than 10,000 tons of waste, and waste plastics account for more than 10% of conservative estimates. This produces more than 1,000 tons of waste plastics per day, and the annual output will reach 300,000. More than a ton, if unreasonable recycling will cause serious garbage hazards, Beijing will eventually be besieged by garbage and cause waste of resources by more than 100 million yuan.

It is Beijing that does not have a certain size of plastic recycling enterprises. At present, Beijing's waste plastic items can only be sent to the field. In response to the phenomenon of Beijing's transfer of discarded plastic goods, experts said with concern that this will undermine the overall image of the Beijing capital. They hope that the Beijing government can formulate a practical and feasible measure to implement "national treatment" for private enterprises. Such as implementing preferential loan policies for these enterprises, income tax, VAT reduction for 3 years and so on. Only when policies are truly put in place can these enterprises be brought back to life, and they can truly realize the sustainable development path of resource recycling.