Four problems faced by the hottest plastic bucket

Four problems faced by plastic buckets

filling water and direct drinking water, which have been popularized abroad, are now widely popularized in China. According to statistics, China currently has more than 100 bucket production lines, with an average production capacity of more than 200000 barrels/year. Last year, the national production of drinking water buckets was more than 20 million. However, at present, faced with insufficient localization of raw materials, incomplete industry standards and uneven quality, experts suggest that the industry standards should be improved as soon as possible, the research and development of domestic food grade PC raw materials should be strengthened, and the recycling of drinking water barrels should be focused on to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of the industry

according to experts, at present, plastic drinking water buckets can be divided into four categories. The first category is "white bucket", which refers to a bucket made of food grade new polycarbonate (PC). Its color is light blue, light transmittance is good, and the barrel body is free of pitting impurities. It is a drinking water bucket that meets the standard requirements; The second category is called "miscellaneous barrels", which are PC barrels with other brand logos recycled from customers due to the need of enterprises to reduce raw material costs; The third category refers to plastic buckets produced from other raw materials, mainly water buckets made of PET resin (a very small amount of PVC resin is used), which have several colors, such as light blue, blue black, light white, etc; The fourth is the "black barrel" that caused an uproar. Its raw materials come from recycled old PC barrels, waste CDs or waste medical bottles, motorcycle accessories, etc. its sanitary performance is the most worrying, threatening people's health

raw material matching is the first problem to be solved. In the early 1990s, the output of new energy vehicles declined. Zhuhai Zhongfu Industrial Group Co., Ltd. in Guangdong Province first introduced the production line of polycarbonate (PC) drinking water barrels from abroad and began the production of plastic drinking water barrels in China. At present, China is already a large drinking water barrel manufacturing country. However, domestic materials are still difficult to fully meet the requirements of processing and products in terms of performance, so they are troubled by the shortage of raw materials. Drinking buckets are mainly made of polycarbonate resin. At present, polycarbonate drinking buckets mainly use the raw materials of general motors, Dow Chemical Company and Bayer company of Germany, of which General Motors' polycarbonate material has a market share of about 65%. In the early and middle 1990s, the price of raw materials once exceeded 50000 yuan/ton. Although the current price has fallen to 20000 yuan/ton, it still leads to PC price fluctuations in the international market for plastic barrel manufacturers. According to experts, this situation has attracted international capital to accelerate investment in polycarbonate in China. At present, three international multinational companies, Bayer of the United States, Teijin of Japan and general motors of the United States, are investing in polycarbonate projects in China. Bayer's phase I investment of US $1.8 billion in Shanghai Caojing Chemical Industry Park, including the 200000 t/a polycarbonate and the supporting 200000 t/a bisphenol a project, will be completed in 2005. Teijin company of Japan began to produce polycarbonate resin in Zhejiang Province in April, 2005. The company is a memorandum of joint venture with Jiaxing Zhapu Petrochemical Industrial Park to build a polycarbonate production enterprise with us $500million. In addition, China Bluestar Group also plans to invest in more than two polycarbonate units. At the same time, China's first polycarbonate grade bisphenol a device has been put into operation in Bluestar new materials Wuxi resin factory. At that time, China can form a high-tech bisphenol a polycarbonate optical disk industry chain

product quality is the second bottleneck to be overcome. At present, the software can end the sub authority processing function by setting different password protection. Before the function, the quality of drinking buckets in the market is uneven. Although the buckets produced by regular manufacturers still account for the vast majority - the product output of the two drinking bucket manufacturers of Zhuhai Zhongfu group and Kexin group accounts for more than 60% of the national bucket consumption, but the price of PC buckets is higher due to the intensified competition in water plants, In order to pursue low cost, some small water plants began to use cheap buckets produced from waste barrels or even garbage, which brought opportunities to the distribution of waste materials and the production and sales enterprises of low-quality buckets. In Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang and other markets, you can see the sale of each 8 yuan drinking bucket. With such a low price, you can imagine the raw materials used. In addition, a small amount of processing aids are usually added to the drinking water bucket in the molding process. If the one-sided pursuit of low-cost, do not pay attention to the selection of raw materials and additives with low toxicity, good quality, and in line with the current mainstream global aerospace composite industry prediction and analysis, it is pointed out that the passive heat dissipation health requirements are the raw materials and additives. The environmental health management is poor, and the physical and mechanical properties, especially the health performance of the bucket are difficult to meet the requirements, and the potential harm of the product is great. Before 2002, the drinking water bucket market was relatively chaotic, but after media reports, local quality and technical supervision bureaus jointly carried out quality inspections with health, industry and Commerce and other departments, curbing the illegal acts of some enterprises using waste CDs to produce buckets, enabling most bucket manufacturers to embark on the right path, and the market order was initially standardized

at the same time, they pointed out that the industry standards should be standardized. Although the compulsory industry standard qb2460-1999 polycarbonate (PC) drinking water tank drafted by Zhuhai Zhongfu Industrial Group Co., Ltd. and other units organized by the National Technical Committee for standardization of plastic products was implemented in September 2000. Some provinces and cities have also formulated local standards for PC drinking water buckets (such as Shanghai), but there are no national or industrial product standards and specifications for drinking water buckets made of pet buckets and other materials, and there is no prohibition against production and use. At present, they are produced and sold according to enterprise standards. Its product standards basically cite the national standards for the hygienic performance of plastic molded products such as PC, pet and PVC, such as GB14942-1994 hygienic standard for polycarbonate molded products for food containers and packaging materials, gb13113 hygienic standard for polyethylene terephthalate molded products for food containers and packaging materials, and gb9681-1988 hygienic standard for PVC molded products for food containers and packaging materials. However, the problem is that some enterprise standards or local standards have omissions when quoting relevant health performance standards, which is easy to produce quality loopholes

recycling cannot be allowed to go unchecked. Although the drinking water bucket can be reused, it also has a service life. Due to the characteristics of light weight and large volume of drinking water barrels, there are no particularly good recycling measures for damaged and obsolete PC barrels at present, but some places have crushed the recycled barrels and processed them into products for other purposes, such as canopy, sunlight board, etc. As the consumption of plastic drinking buckets is on the rise, the recycling, transportation and disposal of plastic drinking buckets after elimination are worth studying and solving by relevant departments. At the same time, corresponding laws and regulations should be considered in accordance with the relevant provisions of the food hygiene law to limit the use of recycled materials in food packaging containers