At present, China's waste plastics application market value of more than 100 billion yuan. In recent years, the price of plastic materials has played a great role in promoting the market, scrap plastic prices also rose sharply, of which the more pure polyethylene, polypropylene recovery material price of up to 6,000 yuan/ton (November 2005), close to the price of raw materials before the rise.
In addition to disposable plastic bags and snack boxes in big city rubbish, there is little shadow of waste plastic products, which shows that the recovery degree of waste plastics has obviously improved. However, at present, China's recycling technology, and foreign advanced level there is a great gap. Therefore, the sustainable development of plastic industry in China should revolve around the center of plastics and environment.
