China’s plastic trays are mostly imported from foreign countries Release date: 2016-07-25 Article source: Hairun Plastics Views: 10583 Tray resources are called the second mineral of mankind and the treasure of cities by modern economists. In addition, since most plastic trays are non-degradable, they cause serious white pollution and damage the earth's ecological environment over time. China, as a developing country, actively recycles waste plastic tray resources, which is a major event that benefits the country and the people, and benefits future generations. It is precisely because of this that since the reform and opening up, my country has imported a large number of waste plastic trays from foreign countries. Waste plastic trays mainly refer to scraps from the plastic tray processing process and crushed materials from discarded plastic tray products after recycling. Many used plastic tray products, such as electrical housings, plastic bottles, CDs, plastic barrels, plastic boxes, etc., can still be used as plastic tray processing raw materials after disinfection, cleaning, crushing, and re-granulation. Some waste plastics The performance indicators of the tray are even better than ordinary synthetic resin new materials. China is the second largest producer of plastic tray products in the world, but for a long time, my country's synthetic resin production capacity has been limited, and a considerable part of it needs to be supplemented by imports to fill the demand gap. Compared with plastic tray raw materials, waste plastic is not only cheap, but also many waste plastic trays can still maintain good processing performance and physical and chemical indicators after treatment. In addition, import tariffs and transportation costs are low, and the domestic processing and sales profits are considerable. At the same time, there is still a large market demand for recycled plastic trays in China. Therefore, with the surge in synthetic resin prices, more and more companies are importing a large number of waste plastic trays to reduce costs. It is understood that in many developed countries, the requirements for garbage disposal are very strict and the costs are very high, but the government provides subsidies to recycling companies. For example, Japan enacted the Container Packaging Recycling Law in 1995, and recycling companies can receive a high subsidy of approximately 50,000 yen per ton collected from beverage manufacturers, etc., and gradually formed the current polyester beverage bottle recycling system in Japan. Although the recycling rate in Japan has increased, Japan has strict garbage control, especially the disposal costs of waste plastic trays are high. In Japan, waste plastic must be strictly treated, and waste plastic that cannot be reused must be incinerated, and high garbage disposal fees must be charged. China is very close to Japan, and transportation costs are not high. At the same time, China has a strong demand for waste plastic trays. Therefore, most companies choose to resell the collected waste plastic trays to countries with lower processing costs. In China, waste plastic tray products such as polyester bottles can be recycled at low cost. Since 2000, the Chinese market has had strong demand, and many recycling plants have begun to purchase polyester beverage bottles at high prices. Under such circumstances, more companies have entered this field. In order to avoid high garbage disposal costs, some unscrupulous companies have taken various illegal means to continuously pass off some waste plastic tray garbage as good quality, especially those products that may cause environmental problems in their own countries. ‘Smuggling exports’ to China can not only save garbage disposal costs in their own country, but some can even earn some profits. This is the main reason for the Green Fence Action last year, which effectively curbed this behavior to a large extent. What companies import are recyclable waste plastic trays, and those wastes called foreign garbage are not only useless to the company, but also have to bear great responsibility, causing losses to the company. Therefore, to a large extent, the foreign garbage incident is not the company's subjective intention. From the perspective of interests, the company is also a victim of the incident.