Waste Paper Recycling in Shanghai Takes the Road to Enterprise Management

In recent years, the paper industry in China has continued to grow at a rapid rate. In 2002, the output of the paper industry increased by 23.93%. During this process, the raw material structure of the paper industry in China has also undergone great changes: In 2000, the papermaking raw materials, wood pulp, waste pulp and non-paper The proportion of wood fiber pulp was 19%, 41%, and 40% respectively; by 2002, the above proportions were changed to 21%, 47%, and 32%, respectively, and the percentage of waste pulp increased by 6 percentage points. According to incomplete statistics, in the domestic waste paper used by the paper industry in 2000, 10.54 million tons of domestic waste paper was recovered, accounting for 73.96% of the amount of used paper, and 3.713 million tons of waste paper was imported (assuming that it was used up all the year), accounting for 26.04%. By 2002, 14.27 million tons of waste paper was recycled in the country, accounting for 67.5% of the amount of used paper, and 6.873 million tons of imported waste paper, accounting for 32.5%. That is to say, in the use of waste paper by China's paper industry in 2002, the ratio of domestic waste paper In 2000, it increased by 3.73 million tons, an increase of 35.69%, but the proportion of domestic waste paper in the total amount of waste paper decreased by 6.46 percentage points, which means that the increase in domestic waste paper collection could not keep up with the increase in usage. According to published data, the recycling rate of waste paper in China was 32.94% in 2000, an increase of 3.44% from 29.5% in 2000, but compared with the current average recovery rate of the world's waste paper (the average recovery rate of waste paper in the world in 2000). 43.7% (in 2001, 46%), the gap is still very large.

According to published data, in the next few years, there are more than a dozen paper projects that are under construction in our country and have been approved for construction (the annual production of each project is almost 200,000 tons or more), all of which are waste paper. As the main raw material. Some experts estimate that by 2005, the annual amount of waste paper imported by China may reach 10 million tons. At present, the total amount of waste paper available for export around the world is about 2,000-250 million tons, and China’s waste paper imports currently account for nearly three. One in a minute. If the domestic demand for imported waste paper continues to rise sharply in the next few years, once the world’s waste paper prices skyrocket to enterprises’ unbearable or accidental incidents affect the normal transportation of waste paper, the consequences for the paper industry in China will be very high. serious. The domestic industry’s insightful people once pointed out that “it is very dangerous to rely on imported waste paper to develop paper irrationally.” This statement is by no means alarmist, and it should attract attention and vigilance from all sides.

Because of the high non-wood fiber content in China, the paper produced in China used poor quality of domestic waste paper (short fibers, difficult dewatering during papermaking, etc.). However, in recent years, with the increase in the proportion of native wood pulp in domestic paper and the large-scale use of imported wood pulp waste paper, the quality of domestic waste paper has greatly improved. At present, domestic waste paper is used in the domestic paper industry. The key to low is the insufficient number. In addition, the classification of domestic waste paper is rough, mixed with good and bad, and it is often a problem that must be considered for being forced to degrade.

To increase the collection rate of domestic waste paper, we should start with major cities and economically developed regions, especially the Yangtze River Delta region, the Pearl River Delta region and the Beijing-Tianjin region. Taking Shanghai as an example, the population is 16 million, and the average annual per capita GDP is nearly 5,000 US dollars. The annual consumption of paper and paperboard is about 2 million tons in the whole city. There is great potential for the recovery of waste paper in such big cities. As long as the measures are appropriate, the results will be effective. It will be faster.

According to media reports in Shanghai, the Shanghai municipal government has effectively promoted recycling of wastes from the strategic perspective of environmental protection and listed waste recycling as one of the “twelve facts” of the municipal government this year. The acquisition of scrap has been gradually replaced by the waste collection point of the company's chain operation. The acquisition points of these chain operations unifiedly dress, unify logos, unify weighing instruments, have clear service standards, separate and transparent purchase prices (prices are adjusted with the market), standardized transportation vehicles, and carry out door-to-door purchases. The waste recycling company will set up an acquisition point in each of the local committees (residential communities), and each street will have a traffic station (concentration site). At present, the city has 35 waste transit stations and plans to reach 130 this year. Waste recycling companies are privately-owned and also have Chinese-foreign joint ventures. The government gives support in various policies and gives preferential taxation, so that the recycling of waste products has embarked on the path of enterprise management. This will surely greatly increase Shanghai's waste paper recycling rate and waste paper utilization level. If the large and medium-sized cities and economically developed areas in the country can carry out waste recycling according to the characteristics of the region through chain management and enterpriseization, the recovery rate of waste paper in China will have a large increase, and the papermaking industry in our country will continue to develop healthily and rapidly. There will be reliable raw material guarantees.

The human society is constantly developing and the demand for materials is increasing. The paper industry as a basic raw material industry is by no means a sunset industry. With the continuous improvement of human environmental awareness, people’s ideas are not limited to how to reduce waste products. More and more attention has been paid to the recycling of waste products. Recycling of waste products has become a sunrise industry that is conducive to the sustainable development of the society. In particular, for a country with a shortage of raw materials such as China, it also has particularly important strategic significance.