5th february

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i work in the packaging industry. we’re trying really hard to make packaging as environmentally friendly as possible. we’ve been recycling waste and reusing our transit packaging for years, and we use post consumer waste recycled materials more and more for our products. no matter how you look at it though, until we reach a point where the vast majority of the world’s waste is recycled, what we make is just rubbish!

Recycling waste thousands a month on milk cartons

+20% 75% pulp Plastic +5% Of the aluminum foil box = milk composition.

Looked to be carelessly discarded milk cartons, few people can understand Mr. Liu’s troubles: “Now people know the value of small milk cartons, recycling them is difficult, so many Raw material So wasted. ”

Mr. Liu is operating a materials recycling company, main business is recycling of various waste the milk and Beverages And other flexible packaging carton. Recovered provided to manufacturers in Zhejiang Province, after decomposition of extraction and processing procedures and ultimately be recycled use. The current market price per ton of recycled milk cartons is 600 yuan to 700 yuan, Liu sold the factory price is around 1,600 yuan per ton, net of expenses, actually earn 20,000 yuan a month or so.

75% pulp +20% +5% of the aluminum foil plastic milk box composition =

The biggest problem currently is no recycling channels. “There are few manufacturers of these flexible packaging carton recycling, many believe that they do not use the Recycle Bin value, there is no recovery.” This is almost running all over the Fuzhou Liu major waste recycling come to the answer.

Through various community and Fuzhou, transfer station, waste recycling in the communication and consultation, Mr. Liu is now only received about a month 50 tons. But the public is still a lack of recovery of consciousness, most people do not know milk cartons can be recycled, are generally thrown away as garbage, so Tetra Pak Actual loading rate is not high. Therefore, stepping up recycling outlets laying into Mr. Liu’s top priority.

Taking into account the amount recovered is not great, can not set up collection points for each region, Mr. Liu is currently only in Fuzhou, Nanping and Longyan three set up special collection points in other areas of the milk carton recycling collection points nearest transit through , then Unity By logistics companies transported to Zhejiang.

Expert Comments Dingli marketing planning Fujian Forest Deputy: milk cartons are recycled Environmental protection Industry, and now there are a number of national policy support, but not many competitors, the overall development is favorable.

Current recycling collection for many things, first classification is not easy, long-term changes in business practices is not easy, but laying on their own purchasing networks, the cost of higher costs, may not be cost-effective.

Most effective way is to use existing channels. First of all, to find the exit, milk cartons come from, where to get it on.

City supermarket is now one of the most dense network, as long as the collection point set up outside supermarkets can solve the problem of insufficient amount of upstream recovery. Every supermarket has a special milk marketing personnel, as long as these sales personnel, and they reached an agreement to provide a commission, so that they can be collected to inform consumers of waste milk box and a small gift Gift From consumer consciousness affect consumers, increasingly able to form a normal recovery.

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