Recycling is an important way to solve the waste packaging of pesticides

[China Packaging Network News] "Let residents see landscapes, remember to live in." This is General Secretary Xi Jinping's expectations and requirements for China's ecological environment. This is a big issue that involves almost every aspect of our life and production. Compared with the production and use of pesticides, the disposal of pesticide packaging waste and its impact on the environment have not attracted much attention from the society.

Although many farmers are aware of the dangers of pesticide packaging waste, there is still no effective way to deal with the increasing disposal of packaging waste. In addition to being littered and self-burning, they can only be discarded. Although the State encourages and supports social enterprises to engage in waste disposal work that is conducive to environmental protection and fully recycles and reasonably utilizes packaging materials, due to the large number of pesticide packaging waste recycling points, the wide scope and quantity, and the vacuum in management, Incomplete management mechanisms, unclear division of responsibilities, and ineffectiveness of existing work have resulted in little practical results.

China is a big country for the use of pesticides, and there are billions of discarded packaging items abandoned in the fields each year. The pesticide packaging waste discarded after being used by farmers has many hazards such as multifacetedness and hugeness. The recycling of pesticide waste is a complex system project involving government departments, pesticide production and management companies, and professional disposal companies, and it also involves tens of thousands of farmers.

To do this well, we must be responsible for division of labor. National and local governments need to enact legislation to ensure the recovery of pesticide packaging. The financial department shall subsidize recycling and ensure the effective operation of recycling. Agricultural agencies at all levels shall review the recovery of pesticide producers, distributors, and growers, and issue recycling. Subsidies, at the same time, entrust qualified companies to deal with the centralized packaging uniformly, and dispose disposal costs according to disposal volume and disposal effects; the environmental protection department shall supervise all aspects of recycling and treatment, and multi-sectoral joint development of joint recycling systems; growers are responsible for the waste disposal. Recycling, cleaning, sorting, and temporary storage of pesticide packages, submission of pre-treated waste pesticide packages to recycling centers; distributors of counties and cities responsible for training guides for growers, and retailers in each township to jointly build and manage local recycling stations. Responsible for the recycling of waste pesticide packaging materials submitted by farmers; pesticide production enterprises should also actively participate in training guides for growers, rational development of large packaging specifications to reduce the amount of packaging materials used; assist dealers to transport the collected pesticide packaging And according to a certain regional concentration; professional disposal Division of pesticide packaging for shipping and sorting process according to the commission contract, was recovered material recovery or utilization.

The current agricultural non-point source pollution is becoming a key area of ​​agricultural environmental governance, and the management of pesticide waste will gradually attract the attention of the government and the public. It can be believed that with the development of science and technology, the awareness of environmental protection among farmers, the scientific use of pesticides, and the standardized management of pesticide packaging waste will be a powerful guarantee for improving rural ecological environment, building an ecologically civilized home, and promoting sustainable development in rural areas.

China Packaging Network editors believe that farmers should be encouraged to use pesticides, who recycle, and ensure that disposable pesticide packaging is not discarded. This can fundamentally solve the problem of difficult disposal of pesticide waste.