China's Recycled Paper Industry Explores a New Path to a Green, Low-Carbon Circular System

China's recovered paper industry explores new paths for building a green, low-carbon circular system

On August 17, the Sixth China Recovered Paper Industry Conference was held in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Under the theme of "Consolidating the foundation and opening up sources, building a green, low-carbon circular system", people from relevant departments of the national recovered paper industry, industry experts, papermaking enterprises, recycling enterprises, waste paper traders and equipment service providers jointly explored new paths for the development of the recovered paper industry.

Zhang Fan, director of the Comprehensive Resource Utilization Division of the Department of Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in his speech that the MIIT will further step up its work and strive to improve the waste paper recycling and utilization system. On the one hand, it will vigorously promote standardized management of the waste paper processing industry, cultivate and strengthen backbone enterprises, establish an operation-tracking mechanism for standard enterprises, monitor industry development and enterprise production and operation, and encourage papermaking enterprises to cooperate with waste paper utilization enterprises to build large centralized waste paper recycling and distribution centers. At the same time, focusing on industrial solid waste, it will build another batch of industrial resource comprehensive utilization bases, promote the clustering of resource elements toward advantageous enterprises and regions, and drive the industry's standardized and sustainable development.

On the other hand, it will encourage the use of artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain and 5G modern communication technology to improve the automation and intelligence level of production lines, accelerate the application and promotion of blockchain technology in waste paper processing quality management and quality traceability, strengthen the grading, scoring and classification management of links in waste paper recycling and processing, improve the quality of waste paper processing products, perfect environmental-protection and safety facilities, raise the industry's overall green development level, and promote the green and intelligent transformation of waste paper processing enterprises.

Wu Chuanliang, director of the Wholesale Industry Development Division of the Department of Circulation Industry Development of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced the work plan and ideas for building renewable resource green sorting centers. First, strengthen standardized management, strengthen legislation for the renewable resource recycling industry, and further clarify the responsibilities of producers, sellers and consumers. Second, improve the standards system, build a recycling standards system in which national standards, industry standards and local standards are coordinated and unified and mandatory and recommended standards complement each other, and encourage the development of group standards and enterprise standards. Third, strengthen statistical analysis; in accordance with the requirements for building a circular-economy statistical indicator system, and relying on the key-enterprise liaison system, improve the renewable resource recycling statistics system, unify the scope, caliber and methods of renewable resource recycling statistics, and optimize the statistical sample structure. Fourth, promote industry innovation and development, and guide the transformation and upgrading of the renewable resource industry.

Xu Tiecheng, president of the China Renewable Resources Recycling Association, said that China's recovered paper enterprises and papermaking enterprises not only urgently need to improve the operation and management capacity of the existing recycling system, consolidating the existing system foundation through standardization, networking and systematization in order to "consolidate the foundation", but must also quickly adjust their raw material structure and procurement strategy, empowering the traditional recycling system through industry-chain cooperation, the digital economy, and opening up new recycling models and recycling fields in order to "open up sources", laying the foundation for the next step of development.

Professor Dai Tiejun of Beijing University of Technology introduced research on the carbon-emission-reduction contribution of the waste paper circular utilization industry. Entrusted by the National Development and Reform Commission, the China Renewable Resources Recycling Association undertook the 2022 research task "Research on the System for Promoting the Use of Renewable Resources and Its Contribution to Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality", and plans to release the "White Paper on Research on Carbon Emission Reduction in the Waste Paper Recycling and Utilization Industry" by the end of 2022.

During the conference, the organizers also held an award ceremony for the first batch of "renewable resource green sorting center certified enterprises", and released the list and report of the "Top 20 Enterprises in the Recovered Paper Industry for 2020 and 2021".

The conference was hosted by the China Renewable Resources Recycling Association and organized by the Waste Paper Branch of the China Renewable Resources Recycling Association, Jiangsu Zhilian Environmental Protection Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Zhilian Renewable Resources Co., Ltd.

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn), original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-379105.html