Why is plastic recycling only 14% in the EU? Because some scenes cannot be recycled. A simple example, the hang tags on clothing, including paper, rope, plastic, etc., how to recycle? Another example is composite packaging, such as Coke bottles including Coke lids and labels... It is difficult to find traces, difficult to collect, and it is too difficult to recycle. Therefore, at this stage, 14% of the plastics not recycled in the EU will be incinerated, 40% will be landfilled, and 32% will flow into nature. The remaining scenes that are difficult to reduce, cannot be recycled, and cannot be recycled are important battlefields for the development of bioplastics. This is a direction for the development of bioplastics under the background of circular economy.

The development prospects of biodegradable plastics should also be in line with an intensive circular economy. Bioplastics, especially bio-based biodegradable plastics, such as PLA, PHA and other bio-based biodegradable materials, can only be developed through planting, which requires the use of land, water resources, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, pesticides, etc. If a large number of crops are used to develop bio-based plastics and biodegradable materials, it is necessary to evaluate whether resources are wasted, and whether the land will be polluted by pesticides and fertilizers? Secondly, if the same crop is planted on a large scale, pests and diseases, ecological disasters will often occur, and biodiversity will be reduced. The development of bioplastics must also take into account the load of the land and the inputs generated by planting, including pesticides, fertilizers, and insecticides.

Manufacture of biodegradable products from agricultural waste and by-products

Compared with the development of biofuels, the EU also advocates making biomass into plastics because of the long life cycle of plastics. In the case of a long life cycle, it is only valuable to use a lot of land, a lot of resources, and energy to develop these materials, which is in line with the needs of intensive social development and economic development. In addition to turning into bioplastics through chemical fermentation, there is also a large amount of biomass that can be used, such as straw, bagasse, leaves, reeds, etc. are all biomass resources. If these resources can be used to produce biodegradable materials and compostable materials, then the world is happy to see it. Therefore, from the perspective of developing biodegradable materials, if some agricultural waste and by-products can be used to make biodegradable products, then the whole world welcomes it.

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