In several bungalows on the outskirts of Shanghai, the two brothers of Meishi from Henan lived with another worker. They repeated this work every day: they bought disposable disposable foam plastic lunch boxes and cleaned them simply. Organize, and then put every 600 lunch boxes into a bag.
In addition to going out to buy discarded lunch boxes, they are also responsible for receiving discarded lunch boxes from the street recycling station in the surrounding area, and are accompanied by large trucks that come to pick them up.
Here is the transit stop for recycling plastic lunch boxes in Shanghai. Every day, nearly 60,000 discarded lunch boxes are “in and out†from here. One purchase of one penny comes in and three cents are sold. Starting in March of this year, the purchase of discarded plastic lunch boxes has become a new job for these migrant workers. . There are three such transit stations in Shanghai. They are located in four directions in Shanghai's close neighbors.
The discarded lunch boxes that have been given away from the new recycling box to the new life from the four recycling transfer points will be delivered to the Shipu Town, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, which is adjacent to Shanghai. A factory specializing in the recycling of discarded disposable foam plastic lunch boxes, Baosteel Plastic Resources Recycling Co., Ltd., is located here.
Into the factory yard, there is no smell in the air. In the green trees and green grass, a few lines of slogans and large-scale publicity paintings are particularly eye-catching: "Garbage is a misplaced resource. Recycling is a magic weapon to restore resources, and regeneration is the basis of circular economy."
In the workshop, the workers poured the discarded food boxes pulled from the recycling station into the grinder. As the gears quickly turned, toenail-sized pieces rolled from the grinder to the first cleaning tank. The proper amount of alkali water and other agents removed the oil on the debris of the lunch box, and after a strong scrubbing process, the debris came to the second washing pool. After draining again, the debris of the lunch box completed the last “bath†in the third washing pool.
The wrung pieces formed a small group, and the reporter picked up and sniffed. No smell had been found. After high-temperature tension and pressure, a strip of filaments, such as flake-shaped particles, is cut into regenerated particles. Such regenerated particles can be sold for around 2,000 yuan per ton in the market.
Mr. Huang Longbin, general manager of Baolv Plastic Resources Recycling Co., Ltd., said that it is necessary to “eat†more than 300,000 discarded lunch boxes from Shanghai every day, and “extruded†nearly 1 ton of polystyrene regenerated particles.
The new polystyrene particles are white and translucent, and the current market price is more than 6000 yuan per ton; the regenerated particles are darker in color and slightly grayish brown. Regenerated particles are significantly inferior in performance to new particles, but the incorporation of a small amount of regenerated particles (10 to 15% of the total) in the new particles will not affect the performance of the product, but also save resources. And all kinds of building materials, disc packaging shells, air conditioner filters, raincoat buttons, and cultural utensils manufactured entirely from recycled particles also have a broad market for recycled particles in hard plastic manufacturing.
White pollution will disappear on the beach at the Sanpyeong Street sanitation facility in Luwan District, Shanghai. There is a giant statistical table, which includes statistics on the number of recovered from 19 recycling sites in the area.
Luwan District Environmental Hygiene Administration Zhou Yu introduced that from last October, we began to investigate the use of disposable foam plastic lunch boxes in restaurants and commercial buildings in the district. On the basis of the investigation, on March 1 this year, the launching ceremony for the "White Pollution" of the entire region was held. In the four districts of the district, a governance office was set up, and relevant regulations and methods were formulated. In residential areas, when the waste is sorted, the foaming boxes are separated; when the sweepers sweep, they must also pay special attention to picking up waste boxes; in restaurants and business buildings, people are to be collected by home; at the same time, they are set up. There are 4 paid recycling points and paid acquisitions are made for the food boxes picked up by the scavengers.
Careful and meticulous work has achieved remarkable results. Only one month in June, Luwan District completed the recycling of 450,000 scrap lunch boxes. Speaking of this achievement, the Luwan District Environmental Sanitation Bureau is also very proud. However, they are also worried about the recovery costs that are still in advance.
However, this part of the cost of the reporter found the answer when he interviewed Ding Lingtong, Director of the Shanghai Waste Management Department. Director Ding said that on October 1, last year, Shanghai began to implement the "Interim Measures for the Management of Disposable Plastic Lunch Boxes in Shanghai" and implemented the principles of source control, recycling, gradual prohibition and encouragement of substitution for disposable plastic lunch boxes. In terms of source control, the production and use units are registered and managed. According to the principle of “whoever polls and administersâ€, starting from last year's November, processing companies are charged for processing and management fees. Now, in Shanghai, whether it is a local production enterprise or a foreign household, a disposable foam plastic lunch box must be labeled with the use label purchased by the relevant department in order to be sold on the market, and the product without a label will be punished.
The 3 cents of the label cost for each meal box will be put into the recycling system of the waste lunch box, which mainly includes the acquisition cost (including streets and transfer stations), processing and disposal expenses (subsidy for recycling and disposal of the factory) ), other expenses (including the label's production costs, promotional fees, etc.). At present, the cost is about to start, and the economic pressure on the streets to purchase waste lunch boxes will be eased.
Director Ding said that according to statistics, Shanghai consumes 800,000 plastic lunch boxes every day. Since the implementation of the "Provisional Measures", the recycling work has achieved remarkable results. In the first half of this year, the target of a 25% recovery rate has been achieved, and by the end of the year, the target of 50% will be achieved. Good work results come from established management networks, collection and disposal networks, and supervision and enforcement networks. The entire recycling operation mode of discarded lunch boxes also brought a successful demonstration to the waste classification that Shanghai has just begun to implement.
The recycling policy applies to all convenient cutlery in Shanghai. The reporter met with Mr. Lai Yuquan, Chairman of the Taiwan Baolu Foundation. The Taiwan Green Life Foundation was founded in 1991 by 12 Taiwanese (currently 15) foam plastic tableware manufacturers. It is mainly responsible for the recovery and disposal of discarded foam plastic lunch boxes and technology research and development for recycling.
Mr. Lai said that in Taiwan, the use of disposable foam plastic utensils at the beginning of their use caused a certain amount of environmental problems and the government had banned them from use. However, since 1992, under the organization of the Green Keep Foundation, Taiwan has started the recycling of discarded foam lunch boxes. Up to now, Taiwan Province has already owned 2 recycling plants, 17 recycling centers and nearly 10,000 recycling points, and the recycling rate has reached 60%. Due to the remarkable results achieved in the recycling work, the environmental problems caused by the discarded lunch boxes were basically eliminated. The government cancelled the ban in 1997 by extensive research. Today, foamed plastic cutlery, paper cutlery and polypropylene cutlery are concurrently available in Taiwan's disposable disposable tableware market, while foamed cutlery accounts for approximately 30% of the market share.
For the distribution of several cutlery in the market, Mr Lai has his own opinion. He said that, like mainland China, in Taiwan, paper cutlery and polypropylene cutlery are twice as expensive as foam plastic cutlery, so different cutlery will be distributed on different occasions. The clearer distribution principle is to allocate according to different conditions of use. Such as instant noodles, the use of foam plastic packaging is the most reasonable, first, its best thermal insulation properties; second, anti-oil anti-soaking function.
Lai said that regardless of the type of tableware, recycling work is indispensable. In 1991, Taiwan formulated the "Rules for the Recycling of Expanded Polystyrene Containers." In 1995, the "General Measures for the Recycling of Waste Containers" was published, which required various material containers (including paper cutlery) to meet regulations. Recovery rate. In the near future, a more detailed regulation on the recycling of packaging will soon be introduced.
In fact, recycling is just a prelude to reprocessing. How to deal with discarded lunch boxes remains a key issue. In Taiwan, particle reconstitution is only performed on lunch boxes that are not contaminated with oil during the use of supermarkets, and incinerators are used for greasy large lunch boxes used in buffets and night markets.
However, on the mainland, most of the foamed plastic lunch boxes are used in fast foods, and fast foods inevitably bring a lot of greasy food. For some objective reasons, incineration is not suitable for China's current national conditions. The handling of greasy lunch boxes also increases the cost of reprocessing. Earn money from the initial compensation, to present-day Ben Liping, Kunshan Bao green never complain. Mr. Huang Longbin said that as soon as the recycling work in Shanghai has reached the expected level, our machinery will be able to feed. At that time, we should also have some benefits. I am confident that this day will come.
In addition to going out to buy discarded lunch boxes, they are also responsible for receiving discarded lunch boxes from the street recycling station in the surrounding area, and are accompanied by large trucks that come to pick them up.
Here is the transit stop for recycling plastic lunch boxes in Shanghai. Every day, nearly 60,000 discarded lunch boxes are “in and out†from here. One purchase of one penny comes in and three cents are sold. Starting in March of this year, the purchase of discarded plastic lunch boxes has become a new job for these migrant workers. . There are three such transit stations in Shanghai. They are located in four directions in Shanghai's close neighbors.
The discarded lunch boxes that have been given away from the new recycling box to the new life from the four recycling transfer points will be delivered to the Shipu Town, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, which is adjacent to Shanghai. A factory specializing in the recycling of discarded disposable foam plastic lunch boxes, Baosteel Plastic Resources Recycling Co., Ltd., is located here.
Into the factory yard, there is no smell in the air. In the green trees and green grass, a few lines of slogans and large-scale publicity paintings are particularly eye-catching: "Garbage is a misplaced resource. Recycling is a magic weapon to restore resources, and regeneration is the basis of circular economy."
In the workshop, the workers poured the discarded food boxes pulled from the recycling station into the grinder. As the gears quickly turned, toenail-sized pieces rolled from the grinder to the first cleaning tank. The proper amount of alkali water and other agents removed the oil on the debris of the lunch box, and after a strong scrubbing process, the debris came to the second washing pool. After draining again, the debris of the lunch box completed the last “bath†in the third washing pool.
The wrung pieces formed a small group, and the reporter picked up and sniffed. No smell had been found. After high-temperature tension and pressure, a strip of filaments, such as flake-shaped particles, is cut into regenerated particles. Such regenerated particles can be sold for around 2,000 yuan per ton in the market.
Mr. Huang Longbin, general manager of Baolv Plastic Resources Recycling Co., Ltd., said that it is necessary to “eat†more than 300,000 discarded lunch boxes from Shanghai every day, and “extruded†nearly 1 ton of polystyrene regenerated particles.
The new polystyrene particles are white and translucent, and the current market price is more than 6000 yuan per ton; the regenerated particles are darker in color and slightly grayish brown. Regenerated particles are significantly inferior in performance to new particles, but the incorporation of a small amount of regenerated particles (10 to 15% of the total) in the new particles will not affect the performance of the product, but also save resources. And all kinds of building materials, disc packaging shells, air conditioner filters, raincoat buttons, and cultural utensils manufactured entirely from recycled particles also have a broad market for recycled particles in hard plastic manufacturing.
White pollution will disappear on the beach at the Sanpyeong Street sanitation facility in Luwan District, Shanghai. There is a giant statistical table, which includes statistics on the number of recovered from 19 recycling sites in the area.
Luwan District Environmental Hygiene Administration Zhou Yu introduced that from last October, we began to investigate the use of disposable foam plastic lunch boxes in restaurants and commercial buildings in the district. On the basis of the investigation, on March 1 this year, the launching ceremony for the "White Pollution" of the entire region was held. In the four districts of the district, a governance office was set up, and relevant regulations and methods were formulated. In residential areas, when the waste is sorted, the foaming boxes are separated; when the sweepers sweep, they must also pay special attention to picking up waste boxes; in restaurants and business buildings, people are to be collected by home; at the same time, they are set up. There are 4 paid recycling points and paid acquisitions are made for the food boxes picked up by the scavengers.
Careful and meticulous work has achieved remarkable results. Only one month in June, Luwan District completed the recycling of 450,000 scrap lunch boxes. Speaking of this achievement, the Luwan District Environmental Sanitation Bureau is also very proud. However, they are also worried about the recovery costs that are still in advance.
However, this part of the cost of the reporter found the answer when he interviewed Ding Lingtong, Director of the Shanghai Waste Management Department. Director Ding said that on October 1, last year, Shanghai began to implement the "Interim Measures for the Management of Disposable Plastic Lunch Boxes in Shanghai" and implemented the principles of source control, recycling, gradual prohibition and encouragement of substitution for disposable plastic lunch boxes. In terms of source control, the production and use units are registered and managed. According to the principle of “whoever polls and administersâ€, starting from last year's November, processing companies are charged for processing and management fees. Now, in Shanghai, whether it is a local production enterprise or a foreign household, a disposable foam plastic lunch box must be labeled with the use label purchased by the relevant department in order to be sold on the market, and the product without a label will be punished.
The 3 cents of the label cost for each meal box will be put into the recycling system of the waste lunch box, which mainly includes the acquisition cost (including streets and transfer stations), processing and disposal expenses (subsidy for recycling and disposal of the factory) ), other expenses (including the label's production costs, promotional fees, etc.). At present, the cost is about to start, and the economic pressure on the streets to purchase waste lunch boxes will be eased.
Director Ding said that according to statistics, Shanghai consumes 800,000 plastic lunch boxes every day. Since the implementation of the "Provisional Measures", the recycling work has achieved remarkable results. In the first half of this year, the target of a 25% recovery rate has been achieved, and by the end of the year, the target of 50% will be achieved. Good work results come from established management networks, collection and disposal networks, and supervision and enforcement networks. The entire recycling operation mode of discarded lunch boxes also brought a successful demonstration to the waste classification that Shanghai has just begun to implement.
The recycling policy applies to all convenient cutlery in Shanghai. The reporter met with Mr. Lai Yuquan, Chairman of the Taiwan Baolu Foundation. The Taiwan Green Life Foundation was founded in 1991 by 12 Taiwanese (currently 15) foam plastic tableware manufacturers. It is mainly responsible for the recovery and disposal of discarded foam plastic lunch boxes and technology research and development for recycling.
Mr. Lai said that in Taiwan, the use of disposable foam plastic utensils at the beginning of their use caused a certain amount of environmental problems and the government had banned them from use. However, since 1992, under the organization of the Green Keep Foundation, Taiwan has started the recycling of discarded foam lunch boxes. Up to now, Taiwan Province has already owned 2 recycling plants, 17 recycling centers and nearly 10,000 recycling points, and the recycling rate has reached 60%. Due to the remarkable results achieved in the recycling work, the environmental problems caused by the discarded lunch boxes were basically eliminated. The government cancelled the ban in 1997 by extensive research. Today, foamed plastic cutlery, paper cutlery and polypropylene cutlery are concurrently available in Taiwan's disposable disposable tableware market, while foamed cutlery accounts for approximately 30% of the market share.
For the distribution of several cutlery in the market, Mr Lai has his own opinion. He said that, like mainland China, in Taiwan, paper cutlery and polypropylene cutlery are twice as expensive as foam plastic cutlery, so different cutlery will be distributed on different occasions. The clearer distribution principle is to allocate according to different conditions of use. Such as instant noodles, the use of foam plastic packaging is the most reasonable, first, its best thermal insulation properties; second, anti-oil anti-soaking function.
Lai said that regardless of the type of tableware, recycling work is indispensable. In 1991, Taiwan formulated the "Rules for the Recycling of Expanded Polystyrene Containers." In 1995, the "General Measures for the Recycling of Waste Containers" was published, which required various material containers (including paper cutlery) to meet regulations. Recovery rate. In the near future, a more detailed regulation on the recycling of packaging will soon be introduced.
In fact, recycling is just a prelude to reprocessing. How to deal with discarded lunch boxes remains a key issue. In Taiwan, particle reconstitution is only performed on lunch boxes that are not contaminated with oil during the use of supermarkets, and incinerators are used for greasy large lunch boxes used in buffets and night markets.
However, on the mainland, most of the foamed plastic lunch boxes are used in fast foods, and fast foods inevitably bring a lot of greasy food. For some objective reasons, incineration is not suitable for China's current national conditions. The handling of greasy lunch boxes also increases the cost of reprocessing. Earn money from the initial compensation, to present-day Ben Liping, Kunshan Bao green never complain. Mr. Huang Longbin said that as soon as the recycling work in Shanghai has reached the expected level, our machinery will be able to feed. At that time, we should also have some benefits. I am confident that this day will come.