How to recycle old plastic bottles

Usually after drinking the drink, we toss the bottle and throw it in the trash, with little concern for its next fate. If "we can recycle and reuse the discarded beverage bottles, it is actually equivalent to exploiting a new oil field." Yao Yaxiong, managing director of Beijing Yingchuang Renewable Resources Co., Ltd., said, "Every 1 ton of waste plastic bottles recycled, Save 6 tons of oil. Yingchuang can recycle 50,000 tons of plastic bottles every year, which is equivalent to saving 300,000 tons of oil every year.”

Since the 1990s, the international resource recycling technology and recycled plastics industry have developed rapidly, and many multinational companies have begun to use a certain proportion of recycled polyester raw materials (ie waste plastic bottles) in their products: for example, Coca-Cola in the United States plans to , so that the proportion of recycled content in all Coke bottles reaches 25%; British retailer Tesco uses 100% recycled materials to package beverages in some markets; French Evian introduced 25% recycled polyester in mineral water bottles in 2008... Yingchuang The company's bottle-grade polyester chips have been supplied to The Coca-Cola Company, and one in 10 Coke bottles comes from Yingchuang. French Danone Food Group, Adidas and many other international companies are also negotiating procurement with Yingchuang.


Post time: Aug-05-2022