Measures for waste and by-product recycling and circular economy of whole industry chain of traditional Chinese medicine resources facing carbon peak and carbon neutrality (dual carbon) goals.
10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20230511.102
- Author:
Jin-Ao DUAN
1
;
Shu-Lan SU
1
;
Sheng GUO
1
;
Hua-Xu ZHU
1
;
Hai-Feng LIU
1
;
Ming ZHAO
1
;
Lan-Ping GUO
2
;
Run-Huai ZHAO
3
;
Lu-Qi HUANG
2
Author Information
1. Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resources Recycling Utilization, National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National and Local Collaborative Engineering Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization and Formulae Innovative Medicine, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Chinese Medicinal Resources Industrialization, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine Nanjing 210023, China.
2. National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100700, China.
3. China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine Beijing 100061, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
circular economy;
emission reduction and efficiency improvement;
low-carbon development;
recycling;
traditonal Chinese medicine(TCM)resource industry;
waste and by-products
- MeSH:
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
Equipment Reuse;
Goals;
Environmental Pollution;
Economic Development;
Carbon;
China
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2023;48(17):4545-4551
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
It has become a common consensus that resource conservation and intensive recycling for improving resource utilization efficiency is an important way to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality(dual carbon). Traditonal Chinese medicine(TCM)resources as national strategic resources are the material basis and fundamental guarantee for the development of TCM industry and health services. However, the rapid growth of China's TCM industry and the continuous expansion and extension of the industrial chain have exposed the low efficiency of TCM resources. Resource waste and environmental pollution caused by the treatment and discharge of TCM waste have emerged as major problems faced by the development of the industry, which has aroused wide concern. Considering the dual carbon goals, this paper expounds the role and potential of TCM resource recycling and circular economy industry development. Taking the typical model of TCM resource recycling as the case of circular economy industry in reducing carbon source and increasing carbon sink, this paper puts forward the suggestions for the TCM circular economy industry serving the double carbon goals. The suggestions mainly include strengthening the policy and strategic leading role of the double carbon goals, building an objective evaluation system of low-carbon emission reduction in the whole industrial chain of TCM resources, building an industrial demonstration park for the recycling of TCM resources, and promoting the establishment of a circular economy system of the whole industrial chain of TCM resources. These measures are expected to guide the green transformation of TCM resource industry from linear economic model to circular economy model, provide support for improving the utilization efficiency and sustainable development of TCM resources, and facilitate the low-carbon and efficient development of TCM resource industry and the achievement of the double carbon goals.
