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    In 2020, China's plastic recycling industry will enter the era of survival of the fittest

    • Last Update: 2022-04-02
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    【Hot attention from Chemical Machinery and Equipment Network ] 2020 is a year when China's recycled plastics industry is facing severe challenges.
    There are several reasons:
     
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    1.
    Crude oil prices have plummeted and the downstream is sluggish;
     
    1.
    Crude oil prices have plummeted and the downstream is sluggish;

    2020 is a year when China's recycled plastics industry is facing severe challenges.
    With the plummet of crude oil prices, the price difference between new plastic materials and recycled materials is getting smaller and smaller, even upside down, and waste plastic companies have almost no profits at all.
    The price of crude oil determines the cost factor of the petrochemical industry to a certain extent.
    Plastic products are no exception.
    However, plastic products are at the end of the petrochemical industry chain.
    As products closer to the end consumers, they are highly sensitive to the economic environment.
    In addition to the impact of oil prices, their prices are also very much related to the prosperity of downstream industries.
    Important relationship.

     
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      2.
    Epidemic
     
      2.
    Epidemic

      Due to the impact of the epidemic, the economy has slowed down and the downward pressure on the economy has increased.
    The plastic raw material market is volatile, and the waste plastic recycling industry has been hit hard.

     
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      3.
    Environmental protection storms and policies related to plastic restriction and plastic reduction
     
      3.
    Environmental protection storms and policies related to plastic restriction and plastic reduction

      At the same time, China's recycled plastics industry was affected by the dual factors of the environmental protection storm in 2017-2019 and the "waste prohibition order".
    Many "small, scattered, chaotic, and dirty" waste plastic recycling and recycling enterprises were closed, and waste plastics were recycled.
    Most of the regulated companies are in a state of halted or semi-stopped production.
    The environmental protection regulations for waste plastics are becoming more and more stringent and sound.
    Industry access guides the industry to be standardized, automated, and green.
    Governments all over the world attach great importance to and have successively introduced policies related to plastic restriction and reduction.
    , Restrict the consumption of disposable plastic products, and promote the recycling of waste plastics.

     

      In 2020, the "survival" status quo of enterprises in China's recycled plastics industry
     
      In 2020, the "survival" status quo of enterprises in China's recycled plastics industry

      In 2020, due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, the operating rate of foreign production companies has been significantly reduced, and the total amount of waste plastic recycling mainly from industrial waste recycling has been significantly reduced.
    In addition, the shipping price has doubled.
    Many unfavorable factors have brought to the waste plastic industry.
    However, driven by the construction of waste-free cities and waste classification and resource disposal, China’s domestic recycled plastics industry has shown a trend of growth against the trend.

     

      The whole industry presents a general trend of "worn out new ones", and a number of new companies have emerged.
    The total number of domestic enterprises in the formal industry of recycled plastics has risen instead of falling.

     

      According to incomplete statistics from Tianyan Check, up to now, there are more than 60,000 domestic companies operating and surviving related to plastic recycling in China.
    In the past five years, the number of new registrations of related companies has reached 45,000.

     

      From January to May 2020, the number of new registrations related to plastic recycling in my country was 7,118, of which the number of registrations in April was large, with a total of 2,232 related companies registered, an increase of 36.
    4% from the previous month.

     

      In the same period last year (January to May 2019), the number of new registrations of related companies was 5895.
    Compared with last year, the number of registrations of plastic recycling-related companies in my country in the first five months of this year increased by 20.
    7% year-on-year.

     

      Among them, a considerable number of companies have moved to Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States and other countries to prepare for the establishment of factories.
    China's recycled plastics industry is gradually changing from the traditional model of "waste plastic resources + domestic recycling processing" to "overseas waste plastic resources + overseas recycling processing".
    "Compared with the domestic dual-drive model of recycling and recycling of waste plastics, the influence of China's recycled plastics industry has risen instead of declining, and it has truly become the backbone of waste plastic recycling.

     

      China's plastic recycling industry enters the era of survival of the fittest
     
      China's plastic recycling industry enters the era of survival of the fittest

      With the scientific and deepening of industry governance, the threshold of my country's plastic recycling industry has risen, scale competition has intensified, competition has also penetrated into the middle field, and the future development potential is greater.

     

      China's waste plastic recycling and processing enterprises, especially large enterprises, quickly adjusted their industrial layout, combined with domestic new trends such as "waste classification and resource treatment", "waste-free city construction" and other new trends, to fully promote China's waste plastic industry recycling system and recycled plastic industry Construction of the park.
    In the past two years, China’s recycled plastics industry has received eager attention from large capitals and large companies.
    A number of state-owned enterprises, some listed companies with environmental protection concepts, and renewable resources that rely on scrap iron and steel and metal to develop and grow have deployed waste plastic recycling and recycling processing industries.
    , The recycled plastics industry has entered a new era of competition in which the survival of the fittest is emerging and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises is differentiated.

     

      From the perspective of the recycling system, in the future, China’s plastic recycling will use consumers, manufacturers and policies to force the improvement of the recycling system.
    The creation of a green plastic recycling-production and marketing chain of custody is an inevitable trend in the development of my country’s plastic recycling industry.
    The "regeneration" system will be the main direction of future industry investment.

     

      Original title: In 2020, China's plastic recycling industry will enter the era of survival of the fittest
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