The European Union's "plastic limit order" will soon urge taizhou plastics enterprises to transform into environmentally friendly materials
Recently, the European commission proposed a bill that all disposable products such as straws and drink stirring bars would no longer be made of plastic but must be made of environmentally friendly materials. Currently, the bill still needs to be passed by the European parliament and the European council before it can take effect.
In addition to banning single-use plastic plates, cutlery, straws, drink stirring sticks and cotton swabs, the bill requires member states to come up with targets to reduce the use of single-use food containers such as plastic beverage cups, reporters learned. As for plastic beverage containers, only those that have caps and body parts are available.
Once the bill is passed, the new regulations will reportedly cut environmental losses from plastic pollution by 22 billion euros by 2030, and will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 3.4 million tons.
Taizhou is an important processing base of plastic products in the world. According to statistics, there are 377 enterprises in the plastic products industry in taizhou, with over 50,000 injection molding equipment and over 6 million tons of raw materials per year. For the taizhou plastics industry, what will be the impact of the European Union's proposed "plastic limit order" once implemented?
"We mainly export to Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, focusing on functional kitchen supplies. According to the European Union's proposal of" plastic restriction order ", not all plastic products are banned, and our products are not in the banned list." Yang wenjun, executive vice general manager of shuangma plastic industry, told reporters that although there is no direct impact on their companies, the release of the European Union's "plastic restriction order" means that the international market is paying more and more attention to environmental issues, they will also upgrade their products.
It is understood that the proposal to reduce single-use plastics sold in supermarkets and ban the production and sale of certain products is intended to replace them with more environmentally friendly products so that consumers can continue to use the products they like. For this reason, the raw material of plastic products produced by shuangma plastic industry is no longer limited to plastics, but extends to stainless steel, glass, ceramics and other materials, and enhances the added value of products through the combination of plastics and new materials.
In contrast to taizhou home plastic products, whose products are not listed under the European Union's "plastic restriction order", fuling plastics, which makes single-use plastic food boxes, has lost nearly 100 million yuan in sales due to changes in the international environment.
"We have been growing at 25-30 per cent a year, but this year we are only growing at 15 per cent." Fu ling plastic director Yangtze river the laurel orchid of the taizhou plastic industry association, she tells a reporter, they mainly provide disposable tableware such as KFC, McDonald's and straws, company sales growth this year to reduce is closely connected with a trade war with China, now they have developed environmental protection material instead of plastic, and the European Union's "plastic limit order" scheme once implemented, will be reversed transmission they stepping up research and development and application of environmental protection material. "" environmental protection will gradually take over the market in the future, and plastics manufacturers can't stay at the current stage, but develop to high quality and produce high value-added products." " "Ms. Kong said.
Article source: guangdong plastic association