Packaging Material Recovery Method Analysis

This article discusses the recycling of packaging materials in detail. The recovery methods are classified into three major categories: management and recycling, technology recovery, and other series recovery and loop recycling. And its connotation was analyzed.

First, the management of packaging materials recycling

The recycling of packaging materials can be classified from the perspective of management and technology, and can be divided into packaging material management recycling methods and packaging materials technology recycling methods.

1. Organize recycling

Recycling of packaging materials refers to recycling by a specialized organization or group of companies. The recycling of activities and activities organized by the organization is a need for group awareness or a certain benefit. It can be further divided into several types of recycling. :

(1) Government organization group recycling

Mainly refers to the packaging recovery methods organized by the government's relevant departments, such as the recycling of packaging waste organized by the environmental protection and environmental sanitation department.

(2) Social groups recycling

It mainly refers to the recycling of packaging waste organized by some mass groups or associations, such as the association of environmentalists, consumers associations, and organizations such as “Return to Nature” that resists packaging pollution.

(3) related activities recycling

Refers to the recycling organized by commemorative events such as large-scale festivals or related environmental events, such as the mass recycling of packaging waste organized and carried out by World Environment Day, especially when the “white pollution” is eliminated along railway lines, river basins, and Collection and recycling of discarded plastic packaging held in various locations are all such recycling methods.

(4) Corporate recycling

Refers to the recycling of packaging wastes, and the use of waste-based businesses for the recovery of packaging wastes, such as specialized waste material recycling companies, packaging materials companies, and community service companies/property management companies, etc. In addition, the affiliated companies controlled by the urban sanitation department (founded by) also belong to this group.

2. Spontaneous recycling

Spontaneous recycling refers to the recurring or temporary recovery of those wastes that are mainly used for recycling of packaging wastes. For example, “Trash King” with Chinese characteristics is a typical example of spontaneous recycling of packaging. Many of China's waste recycling stations are * they can sustain and survive.

The recycling of packaging in cities in China is almost self-recovery. According to conservative estimates, the number of spontaneous wastes that are active in cities is more than one million. Take Beijing as an example. Foreigners entering the city to collect garbage to make a living have generally started in the late 1980s and have now grown to more than 82,000 people. Among them, there are about 46,000 people in Sichuan, about 17,000 in Henan, and there are people in other areas. From the perspective of professional division of labor, 31,000 people out of the 82,000 people were on the street to purchase waste products on the tricycle. The per capita annual income was 15,000 yuan; about 20,000 people were collected from hotels and restaurants and collected waste in shopping malls, and the average person was The annual income is 12,000 yuan, and about 21,000 people who adhere to garbage buildings (762 garbage buildings have been built in Beijing) or pick up rubbish in residential buildings, with a per capita annual income of more than 10,000 yuan; scattered in urban-rural junctions, About 10,000 people work in the waste market. They have formed a complete system of picking, transporting, marketing and processing. They sort and collect the collected metals, plastics, glass, paper, etc., and send them to professional manufacturers for production and re-acquisition of packaging materials.

According to authoritative data analysis, if China will spontaneously organize and manage recycling, it will create considerable benefits. Taking Beijing as an example, Beijing residents can create direct economic benefits of 1.12 billion yuan or more in the waste recycling industry, which can solve at least 100,000 jobs. At present, many people in China spontaneously recycle packaging and other wastes. Professional teams have formed. Among the 600,000 people in Sichuan's Bazhong County, 200,000 people recycle packaging and other wastes. In Beijing alone, there are 40,000.

3. Passive recycling

Passive recycling refers to the method of packaging waste that is subject to relevant policies or must be restricted by certain laws and regulations. The specific control methods include: deposit restriction, taxation restriction, recycling index restriction, and pollution index restriction.

Reprinted from "China Waste Net"