Plasticizers affect the plastic bottle recycling industry

Tzu Chi volunteer Wu Shunwang said that the Yilan County Tzu Chi Foundation has 8 resource recovery stations in the county, which will be collected from time to time at the Yilan Luodong Foundation; the past will be filled in about 45 days. About 400,000 plastic bottles have been collected in the recycling field. Now they have been collected for one month, but only less than a third of them have been affected by toxic plasticizers. Many people are afraid to buy beverages, and the number of plastic bottles in the recycling market It's almost half the number of people in the past. The scavengers who originally had bad income are crying out. A bottle of hard-recovered plastic bottles is now worth NT$19 per kilogram. The scavengers thought that as the weather turned hot, more people would drink and there would be more plastic bottles recovered. The income will be better; but now it is even harder.

For the first time in China, it was found that unscrupulous manufacturers illegally added harmful plasticizers to the clouding agents in beverages or food additives, and the outbreak has exceeded 1 week since then. Many plastic bottles of beverages are temporarily not shelf-ready if they have not passed inspection certificates. With reduced operating income, consumers do not dare to buy relevant packaging products to drink.

The impact of toxic plasticizers is not only that, but even the scavenger people who rely on resource recovery every day feel that it is even harder to make a living.

Many scavengers said that due to the influence of toxic plasticizers, many people are now afraid to buy beverages. The number of plastic bottles recovered each day is almost 50% less; this kind of things is reduced, and the packaging cartons of related drinks are also difficult to recycle. get.

In addition to the impact of the income of the scavenging people, the Izzu Tzu Chi Foundation, which has always been doing resource recovery, is also the same.