California recently published a detailed report describing the current situation in California recycling industry and infrastructure construction, adding that in 2020, California will reach 75% recovery rate. Which contains a lot about plastics recycling interesting data.
The report from the California statewide recycling activities in charge of resource recycling sector (CalRecycle), said the people of California in 2013, 50% of waste is recycled or composted up. Although this figure is the highest in the United States, since 2010, not have much growth.
CalRecycle said only one percent statewide plastic is recycled materials for all the weight of it, but the proportion of all waste has reached 10%.
In July 2014, a tonne of PET waste can be sold for $ 650 in California, but it can be sold for scrap HDPE $ 1,005. Although the report did not provide prices mixed waste in 2014, but in July 2013, the price per ton of waste plastic can be sold in California is almost $ 96.
2013 California produced a total of 73 million tons of various types of waste, of which 27 million tons were recovered, and another 9.6 million tons were composted.
CalRecycle public relations person in charge of Mark Oldfield stressed there are two important factors to fully promote the growth of the recycling industry in California: one is the development of recycling facilities throughout California, and the second is the domestic manufacturers use recycled materials produced huge demand. The key point is to create all kinds of recycling incentives for reuse and recycled material to produce incentives remanufacturing.
CalRecycle estimate based on the contents of the license file in California has about 102 full-plastic recycling plant, 100 crushing and grinding plant. These factories in 2013 processed 335,000 tons of waste plastics, the remaining capacity of about 63,000 tons. In addition, there are 33 plastic manufacturing plant consumes 68,000 tons per year of recycled plastics as raw materials, and the use of recycled materials can also increase the amount of 3000 tons.
The report also shows that due to insufficient domestic demand, exports accounted for most of California’s recycling industry. California recycled 27 million tons of waste, there are 18.6 million tons were exported to China, South Korea and Taiwan. 2013 accounted for 6% of plastic waste in California all waste exports.