Significance of Plastic Recycling
Recycling and utilization of waste plastics has great potential and practical significance from the economic and social point of view. To abandon waste plastics is to abandon valuable energy.
1. Saving energy. Waste plastics is one of the highest energy sources in municipal solid waste. Most of them come from petroleum. To abandon waste plastics is to abandon valuable energy sources. When waste plastics are recycled and reused, it can save about 90% of the energy contained in making various recycled products like general plastic packaging materials, that is to say, it can save the energy consumption of petroleum raw materials and resin manufacturing, so it is worthwhile to recycle waste plastics. Of course, burning waste plastics can also recover energy, but the utilization rate is less than that of recycled products.
2. Reduce the harm of waste plastic products. Although the advent of plastics has brought great material civilization to human beings, the emergence of a large number of wastes and discards has posed serious challenges to human beings. "White pollution" gradually pollutes the beautiful environment of human beings, affects human safety and causes serious public hazards. For this reason, the recycling of waste plastics will reduce a series of hazards as follows: 1. Waste plastics in the environment are not easy to rot, the number of garbage sites is increasing, and the source of pollution is also increasing. (2) Waste plastic waste incinerated can obtain some energy, but it will produce a lot of harmful substances, acid rain, and greenhouse effect and so on. If not handled properly, it will cause secondary pollution to the natural environment. (3) Waste plastics enter the soil and are not easy to decompose. It will prevent the air permeability of the soil, deteriorate the soil and affect the growth of crops. (4) Waste plastics drift to rivers and oceans. On the one hand, it affects the navigation of ships. The residual plastics gather together, which brings hidden dangers to the navigation safety of ships. On the other hand, when fishes swallow plastics, they will die. (5) From the aesthetic point of view, a large number of waste plastics discarded arbitrarily will destroy the humanistic landscape of urban communities, and directly affect the economic construction and investment development of urban communities.
3. Inhibiting the increase of oil price. Rising oil prices are a driving force for recycling of waste plastics. The price of plastic raw materials increases with the rise of oil price. The price of new plastic products is much higher than that of recycled products. The potential price advantage of recycled products is considerable as long as they meet the use requirements.
4. Comprehensive utilization of waste plastics. (1) Fueling, because waste plastics are materials with high calorific value, it is also very valuable to use them to produce fuel. The burning heat of waste plastics is generally higher than that of wood. Its heat recovery has great potential. It is an ideal combustion. It can be made into solid fuel with uniform heat. It can also be liquefied into oil first and then into liquid fuel. The common method is to crush waste plastics into fine powder and then mix them into slurry as fuel. This fuel has the characteristics of flammability, high calorific value and less ash after combustion. (2) Making multi-functional resin glue: using waste plastics to produce multi-functional resin glue, wood board glue and printing glue. (3) Anti-seepage and anti-leakage agent: It is mainly made of waste plastic foam as raw material, a small amount of plasticizer is prepared, and produced by hot melting process. It has so many advantages such as fast plasticization, rapid drying, good sealing, strong adhesion, acid and alkali resistance, aging resistance and low cost. Its waterproof and corrosion resistance greatly exceeds the amount of plastic oil and asphalt ointment, and its service life can reach more than 20 years. (4) Anti-rust agent: rusty anti-rust paint produced with waste plastics has low cost. It can be directly applied to the rusted surface of iron and steel. It has the functions of penetration, anti-rust and anti-corrosion. It can also be applied to the surface paint of civil furniture.。
Plastic recycling is of great significance. In today's worsening environment and the increasingly scarce resources, plastic recycling occupies a place. It is not only conducive to the protection of the environment and human health, but also conducive to the production of plastic industry and the sustainable development of the country. The outlook for plastic recycling is also optimistic. From the point of view of current environment and social needs, plastic recycling is the best way to deal with high fuel consumption, difficult decomposition and environmental damage of plastics problems.
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