CHINAPLAS, Asia’s premier plastics and rubber trade fair, is highly responsive to the needs and the trends, and always brings in new elements, perpetually providing energy to the plastics and rubber industries. This year, CHINAPLAS highlights the circular economy as its focus.
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CHINAPLAS, the Asia’s No. 1 plastics and rubber trade fair
CHINAPLAS, Asia’s premier plastics and rubber trade fair
To foster a circular economy is a global consensus and a major Chinese economic and social development strategy to achieve sustainable development. As such, great potential and bounteous market opportunities arise with it.
Big names
The modelling of big brands has influenced the implementation of a circular economy, and more and more big names have announced their environmental protection policies. Adidas, Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Volvo, IKEA, Nike, and H&M have all announced plans to use recycled plastics.
The core of a circular economy is the efficient use and recycling of resources, and plastic waste recycling is an indispensable part. It is predicted that by 2025, China, one of the world's largest waste plastics recycling countries, will produce urban solid waste amounting to nearly a quarter of the world's total. And we know that by improving the recycling rate of waste plastics, the development of a circular economy can be greatly promoted.
Big markets
The market is huge, but raw materials are scarce. The Implementation Plan on Advancing Reform of the Administration System on Import of Solid Wastes through Prohibiting Import of Foreign Rubbish was launched in 2017 and, according to statistics, waste plastics imported into China amounted to 7.3 million tonnes in 2016, accounting for 56% of the world's total imports of waste plastics.
In the past, the waste processing and recycling industry relied heavily on imports, lacking a complete recycling chain, while recycling rates and proportion of large-scale recycling are both low. With the implementation of the prohibition, it is bound to intensify the shortage of raw materials, and the recycling system of renewable resources is in urgent need of change.
Big show
In addition to upgrading the Recycling Technology Zone, a Plastics Recycling & Circular Economy Conference will also be organised at CHINAPLAS 2019 in order to facilitate mastery of advanced technology, promote technological innovation, and help the industry seize new opportunities. The entire industry chain, from policies and regulations, through recycling technologies to back-end innovative applications, will be analysed and explained in depth by experts. Industrial trends, opportunities, challenges, and solutions will also be discussed.
CHINAPLAS 2019 returns to China Import and Export Complex, Pazhou, Guangzhou, and runs from 21-24 May. An estimated 3,500 industrial leaders from around the world will be showcasing their products and solutions to at least 180,000 professional visitors from 150 countries and regions.
Participants are invited to acquire more information and pre-register at ChinaplasOnline.
