Chinese Mainland In 2020, the production of biodegradable materials (including PLA, PBAT, PPC, PHA, starch based plastics, etc.) in China was about 400000 tons, and the consumption was about 412000 tons. Among them, the output of PLA is about 12100 tons, the import volume is 25700 tons, the export volume is 2900 tons, and the apparent consumption is around 34900 tons. Shopping bags and farm produce bags, food packaging and tableware, compost bags, foam packaging, agriculture and forestry gardening, paper coating are the major downstream consumer areas of degradable plastics in China. Taiwan, China Since the beginning of 2003, Taiwan.