"Drinking empty," "trimming," "flattening," "collecting, recycling," these seemingly simple actions, can you do it? The recently released Tetra Pak China Environmental Report stated that Tetra Pak's waste packaging utilization rate in China is less than 10%, which is lower than the global 25%. The majority of residents' domestic household wastes are not classified by dryness or wetness, which, to a large extent, results in the low recycling rate of domestic waste packaging.
According to statistics, in 2006, the recycling volume of post-consumer Tetra Pak in China reached more than 4,900 tons, which is 35 times that of 2004. In the first 7 months of this year, the recycling volume of Tetra Pak reached 5,567 tons. However, relevant people still worry that the lack of a dedicated, systematic, and large-scale recycling network currently lacks awareness of recycling. In particular, post-consumer beverage paper packaging often contains some beverages and “wraps up†with wet packaging such as paper packaging and peels, which makes sorting difficult and inconvenient for collection.
People in the industry believe that in the most basic household waste treatment process, recyclable waste is heavily contaminated by wet waste, reducing the recovery rate, which is the bottleneck that restricts the classification and recycling of waste in the country.