With the scale development of the recycling market, high-quality waste has become a more valuable resource, and recycling companies are willing to pay higher prices to purchase cleaner and purer waste recycled plastics to produce high-quality products.
Products with recycled plastics added are generally not included in high-quality waste, or are separated at various levels of sorting. Recyclers prefer primary materials, and the products they sell (secondary materials) will be added to plastic products more. This seems a bit contradictory, but this is the current situation facing the industry. Adding a certain proportion of recycled materials or 100% recycled plastic products can also regenerate high-quality products, which should be the trend of the future.
The application of recycled plastics is still subject to certain challenges due to the influence of policies, technologies, consumer concepts and prices.
The "New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2023" report shows that the proportion of plastic manufacturers, packaging manufacturers, retailers and brands committing to PCR ranges from 2% to 100%, averaging about 26%. Compared with 2018, the proportion of brands and retailers using recycled plastics has increased, but the large-scale use of recycled plastics in a series of consumer goods still requires the continued development of the market. Mainland China is the only major economy that has not yet allowed r-PET to be used in food packaging, and the use of other recycled plastics in food packaging is even more restricted.
In the automotive field, the European Commission issued a proposal for "Circular Requirements for Vehicle Design and End-of-Life Vehicle Management", proposing that by 2031, newly approved vehicles must contain at least 25% of recycled plastics from post-consumer plastic waste, of which 25% of the materials must come from recycled materials from scrapped vehicles. At present, automakers still have a long way to go to achieve this goal.
The market demand for high-quality recycled plastics is limited, and the high recycling price of high-quality recycled materials further limits the demand for terminal applications, because higher-quality recycled plastics need to be carefully selected from a large number of waste materials, and the most satisfactory part is selected and then produced using advanced technology. The recyclable recycling design hopes that more waste plastics can meet the requirements of recycling companies for raw materials, thereby saving their production and labor costs and reducing the cost of plastic recycling.
The continuous large-scale application of high-quality recycled plastics can better reflect the significance of recyclable design, changing non-recyclable products into recyclable products, making the use of resources more efficient.
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