Now, shopping, ordering food and drinks can be done online with a little bit of work. The weather is getting colder and the cats take a takeaway at home to save time and energy. But the 'meal' Pollution. "Offices, schools and residential areas have all along become the hardest hit areas for take-out meal containers 'white pollution.'
Over 80% of the total take-away sales came from white-collar take-out lunch boxes
According to the statistics of the three take-away platforms, white-collar workers accounted for 60% of the orders, most of them white-collar workers on average 4 to 7 orders a week.And white-collar workers are take-away industries, high-spending customers, over 80% of total sales from white-collar workers. Undoubtedly, large and small office became the hardest hit by take-away garbage.Especially many businesses in order to save costs, most of the use of disposable plastic lunch boxes.
However, even with the more expensive green paper lunch boxes or recyclable plastic lunch boxes, it is often used as a one-time items, disposable, low re-use rate.
Take-away lunch boxes can pile up more than 330 Everest heights
According to the statistics of the three take-away platforms, the total number of online catering takeaway users in 2017 is around 300 million, while the sum of the orders for the three take-away platforms is about 20 million in a single day.
If we use one plastic bag for each takeaway and 0.06 square meters for each plastic bag, the daily plastic bags can cover 1.2 million square meters and cover 168 football fields.
On the other hand, the lunch box data is startling. Some environmental organizations calculate that on average, each lunch takeout consumes about 3 lunch boxes, and about 60 million daily waste lunch boxes (cups) are generated each day, calculated according to a height of 5 centimeters for a takeout lunch box The amount of takeaway lunch boxes heap up to reach more than 330 Everest height.
Awkward! Take-away lunch box was rejected
Take-out lunch boxes garbage, causing such a big waste and pollution, then used lunch boxes can not be recycled? Reporters visited the Beijing Chaoyang District, Guangzhou Zhuhai garbage collection site, try to put the lunch box trash to the recycle bin , But was blocked in the door.
Recycling site staff: not plastic, plastic can not sell.
Waste Recycle Bin Manager: Do not know why, no one wants
According to statistics, at present, only 14% of the plastic packaging in the country has been recycled, while take-out lunch boxes only account for a small part. Since rarely recycled, recycled plastic food lunch boxes have gone? Reporter came to Beijing A garbage sorting station in the suburbs.
Garbage sorting station staff:
Take-away trash is used to generate electricity from trash. Courier and take-away trash are treated like other rubbish.
Abandoned plastic recycling Beijing Shenzhen subsidies
Originally, take-away garbage into the sanitation system to deal with domestic waste, the majority of landfill or incineration, and experts point out that the mixed waste incineration prone to harmful gases, and landfills will take hundreds of years to break down.
How to deal with take-away meal boxes difficult to deal with difficult recovery? Experts said that at present recycling of waste plastics and other renewable resources, Beijing and Shenzhen have a corresponding subsidy mechanism.At the same time, also need to establish industry standards, only the standard segments in order to effectively recover.
Experts point out that if companies want to recycle, put pollution control system into the environment is too expensive, so this kind of take-away garbage, are generally incineration. Enterprises survive profit-driven, resulting in only the recovery of high-margin waste.Therefore, the current waste Plastic and other renewable resources recycling, only China and Beijing have a corresponding subsidy mechanism.
Ruan Hongru, secretary general of Guangzhou Renewable Resources Industry Association:
In Beijing and Shenzhen, subsidies for separating recyclables from household waste into public services, such as sorting fees, transportation costs and handling costs, are subsidized at every link.
Establish industry standard breakdown to promote recycling
However, due to the location of the store on the market, the cost is different, so disposable plastic tableware sources and composition is too complicated, not conducive to recycling.
Tsinghua University, China Circular Economy Industry Research Center Wenzong Guo:
There are no standards and norms in this industry, PP (polypropylene) and PE (polyethylene) are two more commonly used take-away lunch boxes, which are difficult to reuse if they are mixed with two materials, but if there is a standard , The more detailed points, the more simple material, the higher the value, someone to promote its recycling.