China to promote paper recycling in 12th Five Year Plan
Paper Recycling | 2012-01-27 07:45:02
China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of paper and paper boards, will promote recycling paper and reducing its use in order to save resources and protect the environment, according to the country's new five-year plan for its paper industry, Xinhua reported.
By Paul Ploumis
BEIJING (Scrap Monster): China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of paper and paper boards, will promote recycling paper and reducing its use in order to save resources and protect the environment, according to the country's new five-year plan for its paper industry, Xinhua reported.
The Five-Year Plan document urges people to reduce consumption of high-quality paper such as sheets with high whiteness.
Current paper product standards should be revised to encourage the production of energy-saving and emission-reducing paper, and promote the substitution of paper packaging for alternatives, said the plan.
The plan requires government purchasers to give priority to paper products mixed with waste paper, and to reduce paper use by switching to digital systems.
Meanwhile, it called for news publishing and packaging industries to take effective measures to reduce paper consumption.
The country has made plans to eliminate at least 10 million tonnes of outdated papermaking capacity before 2015 by encouraging corporate mergers and acquisitions.
