After the tide of health, food and beverage companies began to talk about environmental protection.
Following last year's conditional offer of straw, Costa Coffee, the coffee chain brand, recently announced its discontinuation of plastic drinking straw and replaced it with non-plastic products. "This is part of our commitment to reducing waste and increasing recycling." Costa Cotta, President of Costa Rica, said .
Costa is the latest restaurant company to respond to the ongoing plastic-limiting operations in various European countries, before it had a ramen chain Wagamama, a bar chain JD Wetherspoon and a similar announcement from the bar group All Bar One.
British Prime Minister Theresa May on the 6th this month said it plans to eliminate all avoidable plastic garbage within 25 years as part of a long-term plan to promote environmental protection last February, the EU also announced the disposable pipette, colored plastic bottles , Coffee mugs, lids, disposable cutlery, blenders and overwrap items, and plans to increase the current plastic recycling rate from 30% to 55% by 2030.
Plastic straws are the most common rubbish on British beaches that can cause penguins to pierce or even hide in turtles' nostrils Even more frightening is the fact that it takes up to 500 years for the plastic straws to be broken down, So there are 2,200 branches of the coffee chain, a year will use 19 million straws.
Disposable cups in the coffee shop deserve more attention than plastic straw, and now the disposable coffee cup is designed with a sealed plastic liner that can generate millions of plastic rubbles each year and is difficult to recycle. Suggest to these cups plus 25 pennies (about 2.2 yuan) 'latte tax' to encourage consumers to switch to reusable cups. Starbucks also by raising the price, to provide consumers with a cup of discounts Etc., to reduce the use of coffee cups.
In July 2017, the General Office of the State Council of China issued the Implementation Plan for Prohibiting the Entry of Foreign Rubbish into the Mainland to Promote the Reform of the Management System for the Import of Solid Waste by Using Chinese as a Tool to Reduce the Use of Plastics by Various European Firms and Catering Enterprises. According to the plan, by the end of 2017, China will ban the import of 24 types of solid wastes such as waste plastics, unsorted waste paper, etc. In the past, the United Kingdom transported 500,000 tons of plastic waste to China every year. Now the disposal of these wastes Became a problem Simon Ellin, head of the UK Recycling Association, has said they have long relied on China's waste-handling capacity, which includes 55% paper and 25% plastic, while the UK is incapable of handling 2.2 million annually Tons of waste, the short term can not find a better solution.
In fact, more than Europe, McDonald's also joined the environmental camp on the other side of the ocean. Three days ago, the restaurant giant announced that it will replace all product packaging by 2025 with third-party certified eco-friendly packaging and provide it in all restaurants Recycling bins In the past, only half of McDonald's food and beverage packaging was made from renewable, recycled or environmentally certified materials, and only about 10% of the 36,000 stores worldwide have green bins.
McDonald's said the packaging was changed to respond to customer feedback, and given its leadership in the US restaurant industry, this time suggests that environmental attitudes may spark the same wave of cocaine businesses as it did when it launched its premium menu earlier this year.
However, not all consumers applauded the catering industry's environmental initiatives applauded. Commentaries in the news, some people applauded this is the reason for the company to find the price hikes, some people mocking that the Ming just returned to the era of the original box , But they are promoted by the enterprises as new inventions, of course, most agree.