Plastic straws will be banned at the end of the year reason plastic straws degrade up to 500 years, recycling is difficult.

In January this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening the Control of Plastic Pollution, which stipulates that by the end of 2020, the use of non-degradable disposable plastic straws will be banned from the catering industry nationwide.

Data show that in 2019, the cumulative output of plastic products nationwide was 81.84 million tons, of which nearly 30,000 tons of plastic straws, or about 46 billion, with a per capita use of more than 30. Industry experts said that plastic straws can be used only for a few minutes, but degradation can take as long as 500 years, making it difficult to recycle them.

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Plastic straws enterprise at this stage:

The double children of Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, straws is the world's leading plastic straw production and manufacturing enterprises, and most of the same industry, the enterprise was founded in 1996, a longer period of time are The company, like most of its peers, has been producing traditional plastic straws for a long time since its founding in 1996. Monopolizing the competitive market is basically the countermeasure chosen by all plastic straw producers and manufacturers, and in order to make a profit, it is necessary to lower the price and increase the sales volume. In 2005, we developed and manufactured PLA biodegradable plastic straws.

Today, biodegradable plastic straws have long accounted for more than 60% of the company's business, raw materials include PLA, cardboard, stainless steel plate.

Responsible person told the news reporter, the general cost of plastic straws in 1 cent up and down, cardboard, PLA plastic straws cost fee is generally in the 3 to 4 cents, stainless steel plate, laminated glass can be reused many times the cost of plastic straws cost fee is higher, ranging from 2 to 4 cents. In addition to the higher cost, PLA commodity shelf life is generally no more than 12 months, once stored for too long commodities will dissolve. Therefore, manufacturers must be sold as early as possible in the market, to prevent the stock of long-term inventory backlog situation.

According to that reason, many enterprises in the transformation of the development of the paper version of the plastic straw usually pick, a company located in Anji, Zhejiang Province, is a joint venture founded by a paper-making enterprises and plastic straw enterprises. The news reporter grasped that its paper version of the plastic straw processing technology is not easy.

Taking the roll stage as an example, each paper straw must be rolled with three layers of paper. Because each customer's requirements are not the same, the specification model of the paper type is not the same, each production and manufacturing must adjust the equipment. Even if the production can be successfully completed, air drying is a difficult headache for many companies with no working experience. More limited by capital costs, technical and other reasons, at this stage, many small and medium-sized enterprises are not frivolous transformation and development.

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