Regenerative plastic has a new logo green recycled plastic specification system "Re -"

On July 29, the reporter learned from the 2022 Green Regenerative Plastic Supply Chain Forum that it aims to allow more plastic waste to fully realize the standardized green regenerative plastic specification system "renewal". This is another important breakthrough after the green regenerative plastic supply chain combined working group (GRPG) released the "return" symbol that is easy to recycle and regenerate. It will open a new chapter in the green regenerative plastic supply chain.

2022 Green Regenerative Plastic Supply Chain Forum, the green regenerative plastic specification system "Re -" is released.

Open the industry chain to focus on industry difficulties and pain points

Since the birth of plastic, with its own quality, low manufacturing costs, and strong plasticity, it has become an indispensable part of people's lives. Together with steel, wood, cement, etc., it has become the basic material for modern economic and social development.

But at the same time, the environmental problems brought by plastic have also received widespread attention from all walks of life. In recent years, my country has attached great importance to the treatment of plastic pollution, adopted a series of actions, carried out a large number of effective work, established a relatively complete waste plastic recycling system, and the number of waste plastic recycling utilization in the world.

Industry insiders said that all waste plastics can be recycled and "turning waste into treasure", which can not only reduce plastic pollution, but also provide important resources for economic and social development, and reduce excessive consumption of non -renewable natural resources.

In order to solve the problems and pain points of the industry, the upstream and downstream industrial chain of the recycled plastic, in June 2020, the Sinopec Federation and the China Material Regeneration Association jointly established the Green Regenerative Plastic Supply Chain Joint Working Group (GRPG) to join hands with the upstream and downstream enterprise industry Exploring the reasonable re -use new model of regenerative plastics, this is also the first domestic industry chain platform to promote plastic circular economy.

"my country is a large country for plastic production and consumption. It has a relatively complete plastic recycling and regeneration system, but it is not a plastic regeneration to use a strong country. To further improve the recovery rate and achieve high -quality development of the industry, a series of standardized systems are still required." GRPG office deputy deputy office deputy office Director Hou Cong said.

On February 24th, the China Plastic Industry Association joined GRPG, which means that the Chinese Plastic Industry Association, which is representative of the Chinese Plastic Industry Chain, Relying on the GRPG platform to coordinate data, policy support, supply chain standards and other systems, it is to promote the new model of my country's plastic circular economy development to explore industrial chain cooperation.

"We work hard through value chain cooperation and model innovation, optimize plastic recycling and utilization channels, promote product ecological design, and work hard to achieve a 'Earth without plastic waste'." Deputy team leader Manjuan said.

The "Back" character designs from the source design reduction reduction

On July 28, Coca -Cola announced that starting on August 1, it will change Sprite's green plastic bottle to transparent packaging, which has aroused widespread social discussion in society.

"Change the green bottle to transparent packaging will be more conducive to the recycling and reuse in the later period." Wang Yonggang, Secretary -General of the Chinese Materials Regeneration Association Renewal Plastics Branch and Deputy Director of GRPG, said, "Take a simple takeaway lunch box, box and lid The material color of the material is different, which increases the late recycling cost. When using metal materials in plastic products, sort or isolates. Trademarks of different materials on the surface also need to be peeled, which has a great impact on the efficiency and quality of waste recycling. "

In fact, the primary task after the establishment of GRPG is based on the actual problems of the existence of waste plastic recycling and regeneration in my country. The formulation of plastic products is easy to recycle regeneration design and evaluation standards to standardize the design steering and regeneration of the design of plastic products.

On February 1, 2021, GRPG's "Plastic Products Easy Recycling and Easy Regeneration Design Evaluation" (hereinafter referred to as "Shuangyi" design standards) was implemented. This is my country's first completely autonomous formulation of plastic products that are easy to recycle and easy to recycle regeneration design standards. It will improve the recovery and high -value utilization of my country's waste plastics from the source.

In order to promote the "Shuangyi" design standards, the "Shuangyi" products have a more obvious and recognizable "label", and GRPG actively promotes the release of the "Shuangyi" logo- "Back".

In October 2021, Libai Group obtained the first domestic "double -easy" certification excellent rating certificate, becoming the first company in the industry to achieve "double -easy" performance soft packaging through single material design technology. In addition, a large number of enterprises have successively passed the "Shuangyi" certification. Procter & Gamble Company, Super Packaging, Zhejiang Xintianli and other companies have applied for and passed daily packaging, dairy packaging, express packaging, and lunch boxes, etc. Category "Double Easy" certification.

"If you see the" return "label in the supermarket or other life scenarios, please use it with confidence and support it." Wang Yonggang said.

"Re -" character can be traced back to recycled plastics

The release and application of the double -easy system and the "return" symbol is just the first step for GRPG. "The core measure to improve the level of plastic waste management to reduce plastic pollution is to regulate the regeneration and utilization of plastic waste, improve the technical level of plastic regeneration, and promote the green development of the industrial industry of regeneration." Hou Cong said.

At present, developed countries generally have a relatively complete recycling plastic application specification system and certification logo. Therefore, for more than two years, GRPG has continuously explored the necessary conditions for the standardized application of green recycled plastics, summarized and absorbed valuable experiences, so as to create a green recycled plastic specification system including a standard system, certification system, and a detection system. According to reports, the green regenerative plastic specification system is based on the production and sales supervision chain, and builds the industry's actual and forward -looking, practical, and connected international specifications. Examination provides standardized support. At the same time, the "reappearance" of the green regeneration plastic specification system has emerged. Brand vendors who recycle regeneration enterprises and brand with green plastic regeneration in the product can apply for certification.

The reporter learned that the logo of the green recycled plastic specification system is based on green, and the adverse timing arrow symbolizes recycling and regeneration. The logo represents the requirements of the green recycled plastic specification system for the recycled plastic particles and product regeneration ingredients.

"The" again 'is taken from Chinese characters', which represents duplication and continuity, symbolizing the cycle, which is in line with the concept of the plastic cycle economy. "The relevant person in charge of GRPG said that the next step will be the existing standard system for the existing standard system. Perform improvement and enter the certification phase. It is hoped that a group of companies' products will pass the certification, hanging green recycled plastic logos, and also hope that the green regenerative plastic specification system will be widely recognized and applied in the plastic industry chain.

Regenerative plastic industry helps "double carbon" goals achieve

As one of the circulating industry, how to help the "double carbon" goal is becoming a key job of GRPG.

According to estimates, using the use of waste plastic circulation to produce plastic use of petroleum can effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions -every 1 kg of waste plastic can be reduced by about 0.36 kg of carbon dioxide emissions. From 2011 to 2020, China achieved a total of 170 million tons of recycling of various types of waste plastics, which is equivalent to reducing 61.2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

"But we also found in our work that the regenerative plastic industry has no mature calculation method when calculating the carbon footprint of products." Li Bin, a professor at Donghua University and deputy director of the GRPG office, told reporters.

To this end, in September 2021, the GRPG carbon group was established and began to formulate corresponding standards to study the calculation method of regenerating plastic carbon footprints. The goal is to regenerate the needs of carbon computing in the regeneration plastic industry.

"GRPG is currently carrying out the formulation of the" Calculation Method of Regenerative Plastic Carbon Emissions "group standards. This standard uses LCA (Life cycle assessment) methodology to determine the carbon emission factor from plastic recovery to the regeneration application stage to collect my country in China The carbon emission data of the modules of various links in the plastic recycling industry can determine the benchmark value to measure the amount of carbon emissions and emission reduction effects. "Li Bin said.

It is reported that the above standards are soliciting opinions publicly, and will be released soon to provide important support for the achievement of "dual carbon" goals in the field of plastics.

Reporter: Zheng Xinyu

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