In the summer, it gradually enters the season of strong beverage sales. Then, does the waste beverage packaging recycling industry also enter the peak season? Recently, the reporter learned from the Association of the Waste Industry and Trade Association of Xiamen City that the recycling economy of the Tetra Pak in Xiamen has not been “fired up†due to hot weather. The recycling rate of waste beverage packaging is still only about 10%.
Tetra Pak is commonly known as milk boxes and beverage boxes. In recent years, it has been widely used in the soft packaging of beverages such as milk, chrysanthemum tea and fruit juices. Because of its dispersal and small quantity, it has long been ignored and thrown away as non-recyclable garbage. Recycling shops are not much concerned with the collection. Even if they are collected, they are mixed in the waste paper pile and sent to the paper mill for recycling. This not only affects the quality of papermaking, but also causes serious waste of resources.
“At present, the daily consumption of Tetra Pak packaging in Xiamen is about 50-60 tons, which means that it can produce about 2,000 tons of Tetra Pak every month. However, the monthly recycling volume is only 200 tons.†Xiamen City Zheng Guoqiang, president of the Waste Industry Association, said that at present, the waste music packs are mainly collected from 40 green recycling outlets in Xiamen City and recycling bins set up on the campuses of major middle schools, but the effect is not obvious, and the Tetra Pak is retained for sale. The public is still relatively small. The main reason is that the recycling network of Tetra Pak in Xiamen and its surrounding areas has not yet reached a systematic and large scale, and the public’s awareness of the recycling of Tetra Pak is not high.
The reporter learned that for every ton of scrap recovered, 1,500 tons of ore can be saved, 2600 degrees of electricity saving, and 3.2 tons of coal saving; each cubic metre of recovered paper can save 3 cubic meters of wood, save 600 degrees, and save 100 cubic meters of water; Recovering a ton of waste plastic can save 1.2 tons of oil... This is a set of waste utilization data, and it is also a big role that the small Tetra Pak can produce. Zheng Guoqiang told reporters that don’t look at Tetra Pak’s small package, but double-edged sword for environmental protection. The Tetra Pak package is made of three kinds of raw materials. The outer layer is paper, the middle layer is plastic, and the inner layer is aluminum and platinum. Xiamen City has established a professional Tetra Pak recycling plant that can separate three layers and extract pulp to make copies. Paper, fax paper, extract plastic made of plastic products, extract aluminum powder to send aluminum to aluminum ingots. If it is improperly used, it will be treated as landfill. The plastic and metal aluminum, even if it is hard to dissolve in 200 years, will also seriously contaminate the groundwater source, laying a hidden danger for the future living environment.
Although the hot days did not "bake" the hot music packs to recover the economy, some manufacturers have already looked at the enormous potential for recycling. A related person in charge of a Tetra Pak Recycling Company stated that in the future, Tetra Pak will continue to increase its efforts to recycle Tetra Pak. The focus of the work of recycling Tetra Pak will be placed on various tourist attractions and a more standardized residential community. Recycling bins of the Tetra Pak come into the area and the community so that residents can do their jobs with environmental protection.
A concessionary recycling point, a branching point, and a recycling enterprise team of a Tetra Pak are in the process of being formed. It will take a long time for the recycling economy of the Abolished Lele Pack to form a one-stop system for collecting, submitting, recycling, and recycling. Form a sustainable development of circular economy industrial model.