As if overnight, fast food has become the number one killer of the global ecological environment.
In recent years, the rapid development of take-away, it is reported that the total number of takeout market in 2016 amounted to 3.3 billion due to take-out packaging and more use of plastic bags and plastic lunch boxes, there are calculations that the daily production of garbage more than 350 tons. Push the front desk into a new target.
Chaos plastic waste pollution of the environment, destruction of ecology, knowledge has been deeply rooted in. Now even the children all know, plastic degradation difficult, at least a few hundred years.
But in this propaganda was deliberately ignored is that plastic products greatly facilitate people's lives, enhance the level of civilization of human society; has been proven effective to deal with plastic waste method, not disabled, but large-scale promotion Plastic recovery rate.
Unfortunately, the issue of effective recovery, China has been doing not to force.Many cities to promote the promotion of waste for more than a decade, so far the classification of the recovery rate is less than 20% .As for plastic, the recovery rate is less than 10%, while In contrast, the UK's plastic recycling rate has reached 90%, Spain also has 56.6%.
So is it really a fast food lunch box and a plastic bag in a manufacturing environment disaster?
01 small lunch box can not afford to contend with such a big pot
Fortunately, accusations of take-away pollution, he also helped you calculate the amount of take-away garbage: 350 tons a day.
Do you know that?
China's annual production of plastic products 75.608 million tons, the national plastic shopping bag production of 200 million tons, accounting for only 2.4% of the entire plastic products.
Compared with the plastic shopping bags, people daily use of food or items bags, tape, agricultural film production in 2015 reached 13.55 million tons, has accounted for 15.7% of the entire plastic products production.
There is one you may not know, China's annual imports of light plastic up to 7.35 million tons, the amount of China's take-away industry in accordance with the scale of 2016, to last half a century to build out.
Plastic pollution is the earth of the War, but so the main spearhead at fast food industry. This is a little lee obstacle, but not Mount Tai.
British "Financial Times" has reported that the global annual light dumped into the ocean of plastic reached 8 million tons, most of the seabed waste is plastic, the North Pacific Ocean has a long area of China and Xinjiang, a considerable amount of plastic waste swirl.
Plastic waste leads to the death of a large number of birds, marine mammals, and even has proven to endanger humans themselves.
In 2015, the US science magazine "Scientific American" released a report on China's salt, the report shows:
Plastic particles smaller diameter, can enter the tissue cells, accumulated in the liver, causing inflammation, resulting in chronic deposition poisoning. There may be into the blood, when reached a certain concentration, the impact of our endocrine system.
In fact, this test in the United States, Australia have done. Their salt is the same.
All of these, not the Chinese people eat a few years of fast food caused by those plastic waste and its long-term impact, the developed countries contributed the vast majority, it can be said that today's planet is 100 years ago for the invention of the earliest to enjoy these inventions The finished part of the debt.
So, this debt alone can not use plastic bags or plastic lunch boxes can you please?
02 killer on the side, and everywhere
Take off, Taobao, mobile phones, air conditioning, summer must have four 'save benefactor' now, in the misleading public opinion is already the environment on the 1st killer, and that you can not leave the courier, mobile phone, air conditioning?
State Post Bureau said that in 2016 China's express delivery business income of 397.4 billion, equivalent to Hainan Province's GDP. Annual delivery volume of 31.35 billion, the annual per capita courier 23. By 2018, courier business volume will rise to 50 billion.
Just pack a year to use the total length of tape, there are 330 million volumes, 425 laps around the equator.
A year consumption of the box there are 9,222 million, the annual use of non-degradable plastic bags of about 6.8 billion.
Commonly used clothing box is No. 7 express box, a box after the expansion of the area of about 1 square meters, a year of the box can be covered with China's 9.6 million square kilometers of land area.
Now the box is mostly corrugated, each box weighing about 100 grams, courier box for each use of a ton of paper, you need to cut down 20 20-40 years of trees, while consuming 1500 liters of fuel.
Conservative estimates of one year the use of cartons weighs 1 million tons, the need to cut 20 million trees 20-40 years, reducing the forest area of 1.6 million square meters, while the recovery rate of these cartons was only 41%.
Therefore, even through the recovery, we spend a year of express box, also equivalent to reduce the area of 11 Daxinganling.
See here, you kill the killer is also an additional online shopping? Of course, in order to environmental protection, we can choose not to take away, not online shopping.
So, you sweat back to dinner, searched the city's bookstore, just to buy a new book just shelves.
At this point, the years quiet, pride bursting, glad that they have a force for the environmental protection, just right for blowing air conditioning, playing a king of pesticides.
Do not know, the old cell phone battery is the biggest source of pollution, a piece of waste batteries can pollute 60,000 liters of water, the equivalent of three standard swimming pool. More than a game of pesticides to shorten the life of 20 minutes of mobile phone, Pollution of the water and make a part of the force.
2016 China mobile phone sales of 2.05 billion units, and so this year's mobile phone scrapped, these mobile phone battery will pollute 11942 West Lake, you know, even the battery recovery rate in Beijing are less than 2%.
Oh, yes, I'm still open for air conditioning.
The annual freon annual emissions of 1.8 million tons, of which emissions of about 260,000 tons of Freon 11, Freon 12 about 420,000 tons, even if replaced with environmentally friendly refrigerants, environmental pollution is still there.
Environmental protection departments have mentioned that China's building energy consumption accounts for about 25% of the total consumption of social energy products, including building air conditioning system energy consumption accounts for about 50% of building energy consumption. Air conditioning has become a big killer of energy consumption.
It seems that as long as living in modern civilization, enjoy the convenience of modern industrial creation, we have been 'crime.' To avoid crime, do we can only return to the top of the hole people's life?
03 'executioner' VS 'little helper'
Plastic is one of the most important inventions in daily life.
You try to live a day without plastic products life? Basic necessities, any corner are filled with plastic products figure, from the clothes, cutlery, household items, to the transport, and then to the mouse, keyboard and other office supplies, you want to hide also Can not hide.
Think about it, just as a global killer of the takeaway, hungry in 2008 on the line, the US group before the take-off on the line before, in fact, already exist. Platform generation, just let our order more automated Bale.
At the same time, we do not have to spend an hour at the peak of the meal line up to eat, do not have to add a congestion for the peak congestion .In this hour, you can take a rest to prepare for the afternoon work, you can Polish the product report, to be an outline of the meeting, rather than waiting for the meal, such as red light, and other traffic jams for an hour a waste of life.
Chinese Academy of Sciences report shows that each take-away orders for users to save an average of 48 minutes, including the restaurant from the road time and the restaurant and other meal time. US group and hungry take-out date to complete the order volume of 22 million, also means that every day for the Chinese people to save 1980 years.
In Beijing, for example, if each white-collar workers to create the social value of 200 yuan per hour, then from the perspective of the opportunity cost, the user every day because of the meal time savings, every day can create about 40 billion opportunity costs, one year savings The cost is almost equivalent to the GDP of Chongqing in 2016. These opportunity costs can be directly converted to social value.
In addition, the takeaway also directly created 1.5 million riders of social employment, these riders are mostly educated migrant workers, 19-41 years old, they are running back to life, trying to stay in the city.
04 The road to salvation is here
On the current situation in China, this redemption of the road is still very long ... ...
The biggest obstacle to this road is almost blank garbage sorting and garbage collection system! And the only ability to build and guarantee the implementation of only the government.
Takeout, courier, mobile phone, air conditioner, detergent, jeans, washing machine ... ... these in order to make life more convenient and improve the efficiency of the items, but the environment has caused irreversible effects, any kind, seems to be behind the scenes of ecological catastrophe.
I tried to be a faithful environmentalist, not to take away, not online shopping, no mobile phone, do not blow air conditioning, do not wash liquid, do not wear jeans, do not wash the machine ... ... but I still can not stop the world pollution, and my time Cost and energy costs, but greatly increased. So I, in the end living in modern society, or through the back to the primitive society?
Perhaps only against the history of the wheel walk, completely subvert the results of industrial society, be considered a real environmental protection?
But the reality is often that no one can let the history go back. The wheels of history are coerced by us all the way forward.
Blindly escape and resist, can not solve the fundamental problem. 'Plastic limit order' for nine years, plastic bags are still flying.
With modern social methods to solve the problem of modern social development, is the normal mode of thinking.
In 2016, the United States Yale University announced the 2016 Global Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranking, China ranked 118. The top 30 countries (or regions), Switzerland first, followed by Australia, Singapore, Germany, Britain, Japan and many more.
These countries are also limited to plastic, but the government is in the garbage classification and garbage collection, done enough effort.
The last century, Switzerland is also littering, for which the local government since the 80s on the introduction of garbage classification regulations, and for the people to issue garbage classification manual .Zurich government issued a manual on the thickness of 108 pages, from what kind of use Garbage bags, how to seal the garbage, and then to how to classify, as well as garbage time and place, have made a detailed provision.Therefore, Switzerland is also the best garbage recycling countries.
Japan is also used for more than 40 years to refine the method of garbage sorting. The different components of a plastic beverage bottle are divided into different categories of waste. Yokohama City Government printed a total of 27 pages of manual contains more Up to 518 terms.
Moreover, littering in Japan is illegal, individual violators may be sentenced to up to 5 years imprisonment, and a single or 10 million yen (about 630,000 yuan) fine (including attempted).
There is a country in the plastic recycling on the results, even better than its football record.
Spain, the annual recovery of more than 370,000 tons of plastic waste in 2013, ranked second in the EU countries, each Spanish average use of 7.7 kg of recycled plastic products, strong ecological awareness.
Spain's plastic waste recycling rate of 56.6%, this data is the 2008 EU requirements of the minimum rate of plastic recycling 28% twice the standard.
While Spain is also using new technology, put into plastic recycling and energy recycling.
So, do not say that littering is the Chinese people's smelly, the people around the world have this stink, but the garbage classification and the cost behind the illegal, cured some of the country's smelly.
And these countries, and not because of plastic bags, courier, cell phone batteries, air conditioning pollution of the environment and consumption of resources, to completely resist, let life back to 'farming society' due to garbage sorting and the promotion of various recycling, Social, general waste and industrial waste emissions show a decreasing trend.
While China in this system, almost blank.
05 'block' never as 'sparse'
It is true that the development of industrial society so that we have tasted the sweetness, will inevitably let us pay the price, but therefore to take blindly resist the method to solve the problem, but in reality is to subvert the development of civilization, let the community once again returned to the primitive society.
So that the history of the wheel back, itself is not consistent with the laws of history.
We can do, not completely abandon the convenience of industrial society, but the first use of science and technology and government power to strengthen waste separation and garbage collection.
And enterprises, in order to develop into a good business, social services at the same time, should also assume social responsibility for environmental protection a force.
Now, this road has a country for us to go again, and is a broad road.
'Blocking' is never as good as 'sparse' to be effective.
The inventor of the plastic bag, Max Schusky, was unable to find a way to degrade the plastic when the plastic bag was listed, and finally chose suicide.
Today, someone has found a way to ease the evolution of chronic suicide. Later, to see how you will choose.