"Forbidden plastic order" changes the dynamics of the plastic bag market

On January 1 this year, Jilin Province officially implemented the “Forbidden Plastic Order”. Except for the province’s production and sales and the provision of disposable non-degradable plastic shopping bags and plastic tableware, Jilin Province also promoted the use of “plastic prohibition” regulations. Degradable plastic products have a uniform logo. The logo is a triangular cycle mark consisting of 3 arrows. The center of the triangle is marked with the number "00" and is marked with the English abbreviation PLA35 and the safety tips "Please stay away from infants in order to avoid and prevent suffocation." Information such as the address and phone number of the business. Only when these characteristics are met can it be officially listed. After 9 months, enthusiastic citizens have buried plastic bags in pots to test their degradation ability, and they have degraded in three months. The promotion of degradable plastic bags affected Jilin's plastics market dynamics and even the country. The annual consumption of shopping bags in Jilin Province is about 30,000 tons, and the annual consumption of disposable plastic tableware is about 15 million tons. If all of them are replaced by degradable plastic products, the market space for release is expected to reach more than 1 billion yuan. "This is just the market potential of a province in Jilin." Weng Yunxuan, secretary general of the China Plastics Association's Degradable Plastics Committee, said that Zhejiang Province is also actively preparing to introduce relevant regulations. If the "ban on plastics" is implemented nationwide, The market space for degradable plastic products is expected to be further released.

However, if it is measured from the perspective of environmental protection, replacing 1 million tons of traditional plastics with degradable plastics can reduce about 2 million tons of petrochemical resources and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 3 million tons. The long raw material is a fully degradable polymer material mainly composed of polylactic acid and carbon dioxide-based biodegradable resin. The mechanical properties are close to the traditional PE and PP materials, such as large shopping bags sold by supermarkets, and the load capacity can reach more than 6 kg. The popular plastic bags on the market today are mainly carbon dioxide-based biodegradable resin polylactic acid plastic bags.