Building of Chemical Recycling Induetry Chain for Plastic Waste
The necessity of chemical recycling for plastics waste,the current status and trends of the chemical recycling industry are introduced.The enabling elements of the industry in Europe/America and China are compared and analyzed.The chemical recycling for plastics waste industry is at it's early stage and the capacity of chemical recycling accounts for only 1%of the total processing capacity.However,the chemical recycling has the necessity of protecting the environment,saving resources,helping to enable the sustainable development of plastics industry,and beneficially supplementing physical recycling,and has large-scale development potential.The establishment of the chemical recycling industry chain of waste plastics is mainly driven by policies in the early stage,which requires mandatory or instructive waste plastic recycling regulation,post consumer recycled plastic(PCR)targets committed by the brand owners,technology suppliers and the petrochemical producers,and downstream product certification system to ensure the compliance.China needs to accelerate the supporting policy system,promote the construction of recycling and certification infrastructure system,so as to realize the treatment and resource utilization of low-value waste plastic pollution in a wider range.
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