Disposable plastic food packaging container plastic materials include traditional plastic and degradable plastic. Among them, the traditional plastic including PE, PP, PS, PET, PVC, etc., in the field of food packaging, used in plastic bags, beverage bottles, disposable lunch boxes, commercial cling paper, cling film and other products; Degradable plastics include starch based degradable plastics, PLA, PBS, PBAT, PPC, etc., which are used in food packaging film, disposable tableware, food packaging fields.
Starch - based degradable plastics accounted for the highest proportion of biodegradable plastics
According to European Bioplastics, PLA and starch-based plastics are the main biodegradable plastics. In 2020, the global production capacity of biodegradable plastics was starch-based degradable plastics, accounting for 32%, while PLA and PBAT accounted for 32% and 23% of the global market, respectively.
Changing public habits is thought to be a challenge
59.7% of respondents think "changing public habits", 16.8% think "new materials research and development and promotion is difficult", 12.7% of respondents choose "higher shopping costs", 10.7% of respondents said "new areas are difficult to regulate". Therefore, encouraging enterprises to manufacture degradable plastics and encouraging consumers to adopt new environmentally friendly plastic products are key factors in the implementation of the "plastic limit".
By the end of 2025, the requirement of reducing the consumption intensity of non-degradable disposable plastic tableware in food and beverage takeout field in prefectural level and above by 30% is assumed to increase the policy coverage to 60% in 2025. According to this calculation, the market space of degradable plastics in the field of disposable plastic tableware will be 150,000 tons in 2022, and the replacement space of degradable plastics in this field may be close to 350,000 tons in 2025.
