China has launched a three-year plan for promoting bamboo as eco-friendly substitute for plastics. The plan aims to build an industrial system to meet the goal, including the cultivation of bamboo, deep processing, and market expansion. The goal is to effectively enhance the capacity, and efficiency of replacing plastic with bamboo to help with the reduction of plastic pollution.
In the next three years, China will build five to ten application promotion bases for "replacing plastics with bamboos" in areas with abundant bamboo resources and a good foundation in the bamboo industry, said the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) on Tuesday.
These bases will carry out technological research and development, product standard formulation, and brand building to solidify the local development foundation for the scheme.
By 2025, a preliminary industrial system for "replacing plastic with bamboo" will be established, further improving product quality, variety, industry scale of the bamboo used. The comprehensive added value of main "bamboo instead of plastic" products will increase by more than 20% compared with 2022, and the comprehensive utilization rate of bamboo materials will increase by 20 percentage points by that time according to the NFGA.
