需求激增导致再生塑料市场变得更具流动性和全球化

据能源转型新闻伦敦报道，今年1月1日，欧盟对不能回收的塑料包装征收800欧元/吨的塑料税。这项征税只是世界各国政府为解决塑料污染问题而制定的政策之一。

大量的新立法，以及塑料主要用户和生产商的自愿承诺，旨在消除世界上的塑料垃圾，并推动对再生塑料的需求越来越高。

分析公司预测，到2030年前，机械再生塑料将取代170万吨未加工聚合物原料，而去年这一数字只有68,8万吨。

要想雄心勃勃地减少塑料垃圾计划取得成功，就需要将再生塑料转变为高效的全球商品市场。有迹象表明，这种情况已经发生了。

再生塑料已经从局部市场（与原始塑料相比，需求纯粹基于成本效益）转变为全球市场(需求专注于最高价值材料上)。

再生塑料的价值——而且是巨大的——正开始释放。正是这种价值推动了塑料垃圾市场的商品化，并可能最终帮助解决塑料垃圾污染。简单地说，当一种材料具有如此高的价值并且可以在一个有效的市场中交换时，将其丢弃到自然环境中是没有意义的。

李峻 编译自 能源转型新闻

原文如下：

Recycled plastics market becoming more liquid and globalized as demand soars

On January 1, 2021 the EU introduced a plastics tax of Eur800/mt on plastic packaging that is not recycled. The levy is just one example of policies being enacted by governments across the world to tackle the issue of plastic pollution.

A raft of new legislation, along with voluntary commitments by major users and producers of plastic, aims to rid the world of plastic waste and is pushing demand for recycled plastics ever higher.

Analytics forecasts that mechanically recycled plastics will displace over 1.7 million mt of virgin polymer feedstocks by 2030, compared with 688,000 mt in 2020.

For the ambitious waste reduction plans to succeed requires the evolution of recycled plastics into efficient, global commodity markets. There are signs that this is already happening.

Recycled plastics have gone from localized marketplaces, where demand is based purely on cost effectiveness against virgin equivalents, to a global market where demand is focused on the highest value material.

The value of recycled plastics—and it is substantial—is beginning to be unlocked. It is this value that is driving the commoditization of plastic waste markets and may, ultimately, help tackle plastic waste pollution. Simply put, there will be no sense in discarding a material into the natural environment when it has such a high value and can be exchanged in an efficient market.