According to the Ministry of Industry and Energy in Russia every year produces about 700 thousand tons of plastic waste suitable for recycling and use as secondary material resources. This figure can be considered an underestimate, because only the year of PET bottles are produced and released, respectively, more than 450 thousand tons. And yet high levels of consumption of polyethylene film (632 tones), polypropylene film (189 tones) and PVC film (170 tones). Thus, one could argue that the annual volume of polymer waste suitable for recycling into secondary raw materials in Russia, more than 1 million tons. At an average cost of net sorted waste at 12-13 rubles / kg potential volume of Russian market of plastic waste is 500 million dollars for comparison, in 2006 the entire market of flexible plastic packaging experts estimate at 800-850 million dollars
Polymer processing industry in Russia is developing steadily. 50% since the price of raw materials is constantly growing, an increasing amount of demand accounted for recyclables, which processors are used along with the primary, and in some products the share of the material used in the mixture can reach 50%.
However, because of the heterogeneity of the proposal on the quality of waste in the market develops an ambiguous situation. On the one hand, there is high demand for clean waste, but on the other - the country's landfills accumulate mountains of household plastic waste. For example, the results of several studies conducted in Moscow and St. Petersburg, reprocessing are not more than 3-4% of the emitted PET bottles.
The main demand for polymer waste form the company's processors are the primary raw material, ie manufacturers of plastic products: packaging bags, bottles, containers, plastic pipes, building materials. Such companies will recycle its own production and simultaneously buying industrial and household waste on the side. Sometimes industrials sell their own waste, but their volumes are small (rarely more than 50 tons per month), and the determination of buyers based on the principle "who offer a better price."Most of the middle and, especially, large manufacturers, not to mention the manufacturers of raw materials are waste-free production, due to the relatively low cost equipment. Price of a simple line of domestic production for sinter polyethylene, polypropylene or polystyrene (agglomerate with stage cleaning of the film) starts from 20-30 thousand dollars in productivity of 20-30 kg / hour. The most popular line of granulation capacity of more than 100 kg /h are 60-80 thousand dollars, with more than half that amount - the price of the granulator
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