Degradable plastics industry is growing and making great contributions to the mitigation of environmental pollution, but it still faces many challenges in the process of development, which requires the joint efforts of the government, enterprises and scientific research institutes to strengthen the technical research and development, improve the industry standard and optimize the industrial structure in order to promote the sustainable and healthy development of the industry.
-Overcapacity: In recent years, the capacity of degradable plastics has been growing rapidly, but the market demand has not kept up, resulting in a serious overcapacity and a low start rate.
-Price fluctuation: affected by multiple factors such as supply and demand, macro environment, energy price fluctuation and micro enterprise operation, the market price of degradable plastics fluctuates greatly, which affects the profitability of enterprises and the stable development of the market.
-High production cost: Compared with traditional plastics, the production cost of degradable plastics is high, which limits its competitiveness in the market.
-Key technology to be broken through: there are still technical bottlenecks in degradable plastics in terms of time-controlled degradation, rapid degradation and complete degradation, which require further technological research and development and innovation.
-Insufficient back-end disposal: Biodegradable plastics need to be sorted and recycled first, and then treated at the back-end under specific conditions. However, the development speed of back-end collection and treatment cannot keep pace with the popularization and application of biodegradable plastics.
-Lagging industry standards: authoritative industry standards have not yet been formed, and the number of biodegradable plastics testing organizations is small, which restricts the healthy development of the industry.
