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来源类型 | Working paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
ISBN | 978-1-84369-305-5 |
来源ID | 8115IIED |
Plastics Sector in China: Issues in production, recycling and international trade, The | |
A K Duraiappah; X Zhou; P van Beukering | |
发表日期 | 1999 |
出处 | CREED WP 27 |
出版者 | IIED, IVM |
出版年 | 1999 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The Chinese plastics sector is presently facing an acute shortage of plastic resin. Three options are available: 1) increase domestic production of primary resin; 2) increase domestic production of secondary resin; and 3) increase imports of primary resin. Evaluating options one and three involves a relatively straight forward cost-benefit analysis. Option 2, however, poses a slightly more complex problem. Since local recovery rates of waste plastic are insufficient to meet demand, production of secondary resin implies that more waste plastic must be imported. Critics of trade in waste argue that imports are in reality a disguise for waste dumping by the exporting country; moreover, cheap imports of waste tend to crowd out the local recovery system leading to a domestic waste disposal problem. In this paper, a sectoral ‘cradle to grave’ planning model, using material balance flow methodology, is formulated with a dual purpose. The first is to investigate which of the three options is economically and environmentally preferable, and the second is to shed more light on the trade in waste and to test the claims put forward by the critics. Preliminary results suggest that option two offers the most economically and environmentally efficient solution but under certain stringent conditions. |
区域 | China |
URL | https://pubs.iied.org/8115IIED/?c=econ&p=23 |
来源智库 | International Institute for Environment and Development (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/313381 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | A K Duraiappah,X Zhou,P van Beukering. Plastics Sector in China: Issues in production, recycling and international trade, The. 1999. |
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