According to statistics, in January this year, China imported 553,000 tons of waste plastics, an increase of 36.7% over the same period of last year, worth 240 million US dollars, an increase of 64.4% year-on-year. In fact, in recent years, China's import of waste plastics has maintained a strong trend. In the past five years, the import volume of waste plastics soared from 2.458 million tons in 2002 to 5.865 million tons in 2006.
Despite the rapid growth of production capacity in China's petrochemical industry, the output of plastic raw materials is still unable to meet the needs of the downstream plastics processing industry. Imported raw materials have become an important support for the plastics processing industry. With the continuous rise of oil prices, the use of imported waste plastics can reduce the cost of plastics processing companies, so the volume of imports of waste plastics continues to rise.
However, as the import of waste plastics continues to heat up, some problems have become increasingly apparent.
The first is the risk of "foreign garbage" intrusion. Imported waste plastics are related to the purchase, transportation, and sale of multi-party interests. The exporters, middlemen, and importers have clear division of labor, and their interests are linked. It is easy to form a monopolistic upstream and downstream chain. Coupled with the active import of foreign trade management rights after the release, it is inevitable that there are reselling, illegal transfer of waste plastics to make profits and so on. At the same time, some people have accused China of importing large quantities of waste plastics, and will sell plastics that cannot be processed in sub-sales to China. The risk of waste plastics carrying “foreign waste†is greater.
Followed by the risk of pollution expansion. At present, China's Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Fujian and other places account for 60% of the country's total volume of plastic products. It is a port for the import of waste plastics and a recycling and distribution center. However, a considerable proportion of imported plastic waste is now flowing into the vicinity. There is no small workshop that qualifies for recycling of plastic waste, polluting the environment. In addition, as China's manufacturing industry shifts to the central and western regions, the associated waste and materials processing industry may shift at the same time and the scope of pollution will further expand. In order to reduce costs and evade supervision, some waste plastics recycling companies in relatively developed regions in the domestic economy have begun to shift to the central and western regions. The proliferation of waste plastics in the recycling of waste plastics to the central and western regions has begun to take shape.
The third is the risk of increased regulatory difficulty. As early as 2005, the State Environmental Protection Administration required all importers of waste plastics and other wastes to go to the waste import registration center for approval and registration. However, many enterprises still bypass the checkpoints and import waste plastics on a large scale. As the import market tends to diversify, and some waste plastics are piled up and hid in other places and then transported to mainland China, the difficulty in import supervision has increased.
To this end, further strengthening of the supervision of the import of plastic waste is imminent. Relevant departments should raise the level of testing at the import stage and crack down on the illegal behavior of imported plastic waste; establish effective recycling mechanisms for waste plastics as soon as possible and issue relevant laws and regulations. At the same time, actively guide and support a batch of waste plastics processing bases with scale and level, gradually eliminate the workshop-style factories, improve the classification technology, and reduce the pollution to the environment.
Despite the rapid growth of production capacity in China's petrochemical industry, the output of plastic raw materials is still unable to meet the needs of the downstream plastics processing industry. Imported raw materials have become an important support for the plastics processing industry. With the continuous rise of oil prices, the use of imported waste plastics can reduce the cost of plastics processing companies, so the volume of imports of waste plastics continues to rise.
However, as the import of waste plastics continues to heat up, some problems have become increasingly apparent.
The first is the risk of "foreign garbage" intrusion. Imported waste plastics are related to the purchase, transportation, and sale of multi-party interests. The exporters, middlemen, and importers have clear division of labor, and their interests are linked. It is easy to form a monopolistic upstream and downstream chain. Coupled with the active import of foreign trade management rights after the release, it is inevitable that there are reselling, illegal transfer of waste plastics to make profits and so on. At the same time, some people have accused China of importing large quantities of waste plastics, and will sell plastics that cannot be processed in sub-sales to China. The risk of waste plastics carrying “foreign waste†is greater.
Followed by the risk of pollution expansion. At present, China's Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Fujian and other places account for 60% of the country's total volume of plastic products. It is a port for the import of waste plastics and a recycling and distribution center. However, a considerable proportion of imported plastic waste is now flowing into the vicinity. There is no small workshop that qualifies for recycling of plastic waste, polluting the environment. In addition, as China's manufacturing industry shifts to the central and western regions, the associated waste and materials processing industry may shift at the same time and the scope of pollution will further expand. In order to reduce costs and evade supervision, some waste plastics recycling companies in relatively developed regions in the domestic economy have begun to shift to the central and western regions. The proliferation of waste plastics in the recycling of waste plastics to the central and western regions has begun to take shape.
The third is the risk of increased regulatory difficulty. As early as 2005, the State Environmental Protection Administration required all importers of waste plastics and other wastes to go to the waste import registration center for approval and registration. However, many enterprises still bypass the checkpoints and import waste plastics on a large scale. As the import market tends to diversify, and some waste plastics are piled up and hid in other places and then transported to mainland China, the difficulty in import supervision has increased.
To this end, further strengthening of the supervision of the import of plastic waste is imminent. Relevant departments should raise the level of testing at the import stage and crack down on the illegal behavior of imported plastic waste; establish effective recycling mechanisms for waste plastics as soon as possible and issue relevant laws and regulations. At the same time, actively guide and support a batch of waste plastics processing bases with scale and level, gradually eliminate the workshop-style factories, improve the classification technology, and reduce the pollution to the environment.
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