World’s Largest Plastic Recycling Plant Opened in Beijing
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service

BEIJING: The world’s largest plastics recycling processing plant, capable of recycling 60,000 tons of waste plastics annually, has begun operation in Beijing.

An official of the Beijing Municipal Industry Promotion Bureau has said that the plant was established by Beijing Incom Resources Recovery Company with a cost of $37.5 million.

Li Ping, Director of the Bureau, said the plant’s annual capacity is equaled to one third of the city’s total annual waste plastics amount and would result in 30,000 tons of clean polyester pieces and 20,000 tons of bottled polyester chips—equivalent to a saving of 300,000 tons of petroleum annually.

“The line will contribute greatly to Beijing’s energy saving endeavor,” the state media quoted Li Ping as saying.

Figures from the Beijing Municipal Packing Technology Association show that waste plastic bottles amounted to 150,000 tons in 2007 in Beijing, and are expected to surge to 300,000 tons in 2010.

Li Ping said Beijing had encouraged more enterprises to participate in building logistics and sorting centers for waste plastics.

Beijing Incom would set up four such centers this year to help build a recycling system for waste plastic bottles.●