The Trend Of Environmental Protection: What Is The Impact Of The New "Plastic Restriction Order" On The Textile Industry?

In January 19th, the national development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of ecology and environment issued the "opinions on Further Strengthening the management of plastic pollution" (hereinafter referred to as "opinions"). The opinion put forward that, by 2020, the production, sale and use of some plastic products should be prohibited and restricted in some areas and some areas. By 2022, the consumption of disposable plastic products has been significantly reduced, the replacement products have been promoted, and the proportion of energy utilization of plastic waste has been greatly improved. In the emerging fields of plastic pollution problems and emerging fields such as electricity suppliers, express delivery and takeaway, a batch of replicable and extensive plastic reduction and green logistics modes can be formed. By 2025, the management system of production, circulation, consumption, recycling and disposal of plastic products had been basically established. The system of multiple co governance has basically taken shape, and the level of product development and application has been further improved. The amount of plastic waste landfill in key cities has been greatly reduced, and the pollution of plastics has been effectively controlled.

What is forbidden or restricted?

Prohibited production and sale of plastic products. It is forbidden to produce and sell ultra-thin plastic shopping bags with thickness less than 0.025 millimeters and polyethylene film with a thickness of less than 0.01 millimeters. It is forbidden to manufacture plastic products with medical wastes as raw materials. Totally prohibit the import of waste plastics. By the end of 2020, the production and sale of disposable foam plastic tableware and disposable plastic cotton swabs should be prohibited. It is forbidden to produce daily chemicals containing plastic beads. By the end of 2022, it is forbidden to sell daily chemical products containing plastic beads.

Plastic products prohibited or restricted. 1. non degradable plastic bags. 2. disposable plastic tableware. 3. hotels, hotels, disposable plastic supplies. 4. express plastic packaging.

What's the impact on the textile industry?

"Opinions" mentioned: promote the use of environmentally friendly bags, paper bags and other non plastic products and degradable shopping bags.

In fact, in order to reduce the white pollution, as early as June 1, 2008, China began to implement the "plastic limit order", prohibiting the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags less than 0.025 millimeters thick, and demanded that all supermarkets, shopping malls, markets and other commodity retail establishments were not allowed to provide plastic shopping bags free of charge.

The first release of the "plastic limit" was mainly aimed at the plastic packaging industry, and it also injected a stimulant into the nonwoven sector of the textile industry. "Non-woven bags and paper bags are reusable shopping bags, but paper bags are polluted in the process of production. Non-woven fabrics naturally become the best substitute for plastic bags." A head of a nonwoven company recalled the situation of the year, so he said. "At that time, the whole industry was full of enthusiasm, and non-woven production enterprises everywhere increased production and launched new production lines. At the same time, the market price of non-woven fabrics began to soar.

However, over the past 10 years, there has been little media evaluation of the plastic limit. From the perspective of industry, some enterprises quickly threw themselves into the nonwoven industry after the plastic restriction order. However, they failed to announce their operation soon after they did not have the foundation of the industry. The reasons include the fluctuation of raw material prices, the rising cost of labor, and the effect of plastic restriction. The people's daily commented on the call for plastic restriction. After the "plastic limit order", the average annual growth rate of plastic bags in China has decreased from 20% to less than 3%. The use of plastic bags in major commodity retail establishments has decreased by 200 thousand tons per year, but the effect has been discounted. The fundamental reason is the lack of suitable alternatives.

Compared with the 2008 edition, the new plastic limit is more extensive and requires more detailed substitutes. Then, what impact will the new plastic limit have on the textile industry? Will it again stimulate the rapid development of the nonwoven industry? What is the long-term effect? China's Industrial Textile Industry Association said, "the plastic limit order in 2008 is mainly for plastic products, so it has certain positive effects on nonwoven packaging materials. The introduction of the "opinion" will definitely have a very big impact on the industry, but to what extent, the association is still discussing the study.

In addition, the Opinions also referred to the classification of plastics waste. For plastic waste with recycling value, we need to achieve high-quality, standardized resource utilization. For waste plastics with high sorting cost and low resource utilization value, we must enter the waste incineration power generation system and strengthen operation and management to ensure that all kinds of pollutants are discharged steadily and achieve energy utilization. The "opinions" clarified the requirement to increase the ratio of resource utilization and energy utilization of plastic waste, and the ultimate goal was to minimize the direct landfill volume of plastic waste.

　　 Regarding this, Li Deli, deputy director of the Development Department of the China Chemical Fiber Industry Association, said: "the impact of" opinion "on the chemical fiber industry needs to be further explored, but the disposal of plastic waste in the opinion is worth pondering. Some of the raw materials for recycled fiber reuse come from plastic bottles. The high value utilization of plastic waste in the new policy is encouraging and also a direction, which should be good for recycling and recycling of chemical fiber industry. He also said that in the past two years, the textile industry has been heading towards the green direction, and the degradation and recycling are the key directions for the development of the industry.

Will non-woven bags become a substitute for plastic bags?

Experts have said that the biggest difficulty of plastic restriction is that it is difficult to change people's consumption and living habits. Though consumers are more and more aware of environmental protection, it is clear that traditional plastic products, especially disposable plastic products, can cause great harm to the environment and even threaten the food chain of human beings. At the same time, they can not abandon the convenience brought by plastic products to life. To this end, we move to some ordinary consumers to understand their real ideas about plastic bags and non-woven fabrics.

Ms. Zhao

If I don't use plastic bags, I prefer to use nonwoven bags. Now some supermarkets are already using degradable plastic bags, one is expensive, the two is too sturdy, milk, yogurt box is easy to start it can be broken, can not play the role of repeated use.

The home's non-woven bags are sent by supermarkets or shopping malls. Although they are very green, they are stacked up and they do not know how to deal with them. Do you want to know whether the discarded nonwoven bags can be degraded or recycled?

Mr. Zhang

Ms. Chen

Early use of non-woven bags has been carried out every time to avoid plastic bags.