Looking at recent newspapers, you can see that cities around the world have successively issued high-standard "plastic ban" orders, especially for the traditional plastic bag industry, and introduced the "three nos" policy: traditional plastic bags cannot be produced; traditional plastic bags cannot be sold, and traditional plastics cannot be used. bag.

Last year, Hainan took the lead in legislation, upgrading from "plastic restriction" to "ban on plastics." So far this year, six provinces have successively enacted "ban on plastics", and another 15 provinces are also preparing to issue a comprehensive "ban on plastics."

In July of this year, nine departments including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly issued the "Notice on Solidly Promoting Plastic Pollution Control", proposing that from January 1, 2021, the construction of urban areas in municipalities, provincial capitals, and cities separately designated In shopping malls, supermarkets, pharmacies, bookstores, etc., non-degradable plastic shopping bags are forbidden to be used in food and beverage take-out services and various exhibition activities.

From this, it is not difficult to see that from the national, provincial, and municipal levels, the determination and strength to comprehensively "ban plastics" is not small.

Different from the sudden increase in short-term demand for epidemic prevention materials and soaring prices caused by the sudden outbreak of the "new crown epidemic", this time with the increase in national environmental protection policies and implementation efforts, entrepreneurs have responded to the government's call to replace biodegradable plastics. The search for business opportunities in the supply sector has triggered a recent surge in demand for degradable plastics.

At present, the supply of biodegradable plastics is seriously smaller than the demand. The previous tepid biodegradable plastic production companies have full orders. Many new material manufacturers and trading companies across the country have entered the field of biodegradable plastic production as a relatively mature raw material PLA in the degradation industry. The price has risen from 18,000 to 35,000 yuan in a short period of time.

Degradable plastics have excellent properties that can quickly degrade in the natural environment into environmentally harmless water and carbon dioxide. According to the principle of degradation, degradable plastics can be divided into photodegradable plastics, biodegradable plastics, and photo-biodegradable plastics.