Classification and recycling of packaging and a virtuous cycle of ecology

Recently, the Sanitation Bureau of the Haidian District of Beijing has placed a stainless steel recycling bin every ten meters away from Baiyi Road to the main street of Zhongguancun. This trash can is divided into three application ports of green, yellow, and red. The garbage is divided into several categories, such as organic materials, plastics, and papers, and is accepted as a seat. According to analysis provided by the Haidian District Environmental Protection Bureau, at present, packaging waste accounts for more than 30% of various household wastes. Moreover, the higher the consumption level of residential areas, the greater the proportion of packaging waste.

It is understood that in the "two sessions" that have just concluded, members of the National People's Congress and the CPPCC have taken up a considerable proportion of proposals for protecting the ecological environment and accelerating the promotion of urban waste sorting and recycling. Liu Qi, the head of the Beijing Municipal Government, emphasized the need to "govern the city by law."

What are the advantages of garbage separation and recycling, do not take foreign examples. For example, in the Pudong New Area of ​​Shanghai, the waste-to-power plants recently invested heavily by the government have paid off. Not only does the power plant provide millions of watts of electricity per day, but it also collects metal, glass, and other wastes from garbage. Reuse multiplexing. It is said that high-grade building materials, glass mosaics and hollow bricks, which have been developed from used glass bottles, have become patents for waste recycling plants. In Zhuxi Town, Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, the country’s largest waste plastics distribution market, established in accordance with the laws of economic law, has completed its third-phase project. Painting Town began with the main purpose of earning money, but with the continuous expansion of the scale (the annual transaction amount has reached 400 million RMB), it plays a significant role in energy conservation and environmental protection, and it has therefore received the attention of the local government. Not only has the amount of recycling and network construction been strengthened, but also the deep processing of waste plastics has been focused on, creating high efficiency in deep processing.

Premier Zhu emphasized in the "Government Work Report" of the National People's Congress: "We must vigorously promote economic restructuring and persistently intensify the reform of the economic system. In order to accelerate the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure, we must adopt high technology and advanced and applicable technologies. , transform and upgrade traditional industries."

The author believes that vigorously improving and adopting urban waste separation and recycling and adopting the practice of factory-based processing and reuse is the best way to reform and upgrade the packaging industry in accordance with Premier Zhu's instructions.

It is understood that the classification and recycling of urban waste in Beijing is far from being done well in Shanghai. The main reason is that the law has not been established and sound. At the same time, law enforcement is lax and there are cases where there are laws that do not comply with the law. On the other hand, in Fuyang City, Zhejiang Province, the largest waste paper trading center in East China, the local government has set up a waste paper trading market, and has banned paper production without using waste paper as the raw material. At the same time, the environmental protection department has conducted spot checks on paper mills. According to statistics, all the factories in the region use waste paper as raw materials for production, so the pollution is light, and the paper is used for several hundred thousand tons per year. In the Baoding area of ​​Hebei Province, a battery recycling company established exclusively for the waste battery recycling market in Beijing used a total of 1/10 of the total annual waste battery recycling in Beijing as a raw material, but in fact the recovered used batteries were still insufficient for start-up operations. It takes 1/10 of the raw material.

After China's accession to the WTO, the packaging industry will face new opportunities and challenges. The opportunity is to upgrade the existing system in accordance with the standard system of international packaging production and recycling. If the existing production recovery system is not yet in line with international standards, this is a challenge. It will force us to accept the protection of resources and survival. Environmental conditions and practices.

The formulation of environmentally-friendly regulations for packaging not only has already produced effective results in today’s developed countries, but it is even more timely and necessary in the reality that China’s resources are increasingly depleted and the ecological environment is aging. With reference to the mandatory packaging waste restriction regulations formulated by the EU in the early 1990s, our regulations should also include the following main contents: Restricting or prohibiting the use of packaging materials that are harmful to the environment; requiring manufacturers and sellers to recycle and reuse packaging Responsibility for waste, establishment of systems, institutions, and methods of operation for the recycling, recycling, and recycling of packaging materials; and the establishment of various recycling targets for packaging materials. It is understood that the implementation of environmental protection regulations for packaging has formed a green trade barrier in the trade of various countries. The EU has explicitly banned the entry of products that do not meet its mandatory packaging regulations. This is also a challenge to our packaging industry after its entry into the WTO.

Information from various sources shows that at present, most of the work done in the recycling or deep processing of packaging waste resources is in the urban-rural area, and practitioners are also farmers or non-agricultural non-residents, many of whom have already Decay is magical, and "gold" is excavated from the garbage. In response to a question from a foreign reporter, Premier Zhu Rongji said that his most troublesome issue is how to increase the income of farmers. It seems that if an industry army can be created from the separation and recycling of packaging waste, not only can resources be used reasonably, the environment can be improved, and even farmers can increase their income, reducing government pressure and expenditure. Such a good thing Is the relevant department not thinking of a solution as soon as possible?