UK plastic packaging recycling rate will reach 70% in 2017

According to the report of the European Plastics website, the latest report of the “2010 UK Family Plastic Packaging Recycling Survey” report shows that the UK’s recycling rate for plastic bottles reached 48.5% in 2010, which means 280,000 tons of polymer and 6.184 billion bottles. Has been recycled.

Stewart Foster, chief executive officer of the company's product recycling company, said: "We recovered more than 400 million bottles in 2010 more than in 2009, an increase of 6.5%." According to reports, the British plastic packaging The recovery rate will reach 70% in 2017 and will provide raw materials for 480,000 tons of recycled polymer. At the same time, the quality of plastic bottles must also be guaranteed, and their pollution rate must be controlled below 5%.

In 2010, a total of 580,000 tons of plastic bottles and 500,000 tons to 600,000 tons of hard plastic packaging entered the British family's waste and recycling system, of which, the recovery rate of hard plastics was only 12% to 15%, and an urgent need to improve. Of course, the infrastructure used to sort and dispose of such waste in the UK is obviously not enough. Even in the existing sorting and processing plants, work efficiency is very low. Therefore, the government encourages related companies to export plastic waste to countries with lower sorting costs. In addition, Foster believes that simple landfilling of plastic waste is not an ideal solution because it will increase energy waste.

In 2011, about 425,000 tons of plastic packaging was recycled in the UK, and by 2012, this figure is expected to reach 468,000 tons. In addition, the UK's plastic packaging recycling rate ranked 15th in 29 EU countries in 2010.