Admittedly, the point of take-away has become a way of life that people can not leave, which not only saves our working hours, but also fill the stomach, but the resulting plastic garbage problem is unavoidable, although many businesses insist The lunch boxes we use are all 'safe', biodegradable and non-polluting.
So, what kind of disposable lunch boxes to achieve environmental protection? 'Bio-based meal boxes to use more environmentally friendly.' Shenzhen Solid Waste Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. Chairman Gao Changchen told the "China's Sankei Shimbun," an interview with reporters, Today's life, the masses can not do without courier, take-away, plastic tableware and plastic bags. With the rapid consumption of these consumables, but also brought no small threat to the environment.Because the vast majority of plastic lunch boxes and plastic bags Is not degradable.
The new format exacerbated the growth of 'white junk'
As consumer orders have increased, disposable meal containers used in meal packages have risen sharply, but a large amount of 'white trash' has also been generated.
In fact, it is not just the take-away disposable lunch boxes that become non-degradable garbage. Even packaging used after express delivery encounters 'encirclement and suppression' in recent years.
Not long ago, a survey report from the State Post Bureau showed that in 2016, China had used 14 billion plastic bags, 3.2 billion woven bags, and 330 million rolls of tape, which eventually all went into landfills.
Due to the huge amount of rubbish generated by the takeaway, Baidu took delivery, was it hungry? The US group booking platform was also subject to the 'liquidation' of environmentalists.
Not long ago, Beijing No.4 Intermediate People's Court accepted the Chongqing Green Volunteers Federation v. Beijing Little Information Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Lazas Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Three Technology Co., Ltd. respectively for environmental pollution responsibilities Dispute public interest litigation cases.
Data show that the three defendants are takeout booking platform Baidu takeaway, hungry, the United States take-out of the main company, the plaintiff to the defendant did not provide users with the option of whether to use disposable tableware, resulting in the system default delivery of disposable tableware caused Huge waste of resources and ecological damage, filed a lawsuit to the court.
In the above case, the plaintiff believes that due to the business model flaws in the order platform, the user is not provided with the option of impractical disposable tableware, which results in the user automatically dispensing the disposable tableware when ordering food directly, resulting in great waste of resources and environmental pollution.
So, how many take-away lunch boxes and plastic bags are produced in our country? According to this answer, in fact, the authoritative department does not have a unified data.
According to what is hungry, the United States Mission takeaway, Baidu Takeaway orders released three takeover platform data show that the national order of about 20 million orders around.
According to the data obtained by relevant agencies, the plastic bags used per day can cover 420,000 square meters, equivalent to 59 football fields, in accordance with one plastic bag for each single takeout and 0.06 square meters for each plastic bag. About 15 days Can cover a West Lake.In addition to the plastic bags used in packaging, the current environmental problems caused by the plastic lunch boxes commonly used in catering take-outs are even more conspicuous as each take-out usually uses not only one take-away lunch box.
According to the above data, the take-away platform consumes more than 60 million plastic products a day, according to a sample of 100 orders collected by a nonprofit environmental protection organization, which consumes an average of 3.27 plastic lunch boxes or cups.
An industry source who asked not to be named told the "China Sankei Shimbun," a reporter for the specific volume of take-out tableware, access to this data is very difficult. At present, in addition to some larger platform ordering, there are many Customers are ordering their own meals at the restaurant, so it's hard to get a single piece of data.
So, in the end, how big is the take-out market in China? According to big data from the U.S. group, the take-away industry in the country witnessed rapid growth in 2016, with a total turnover of 130 billion yuan in 2017. It is estimated to top 200 billion by 2017.
The data also predicts that it will climb to 300 billion by 2018. From the user perspective, 3 out of every 10 Chinese are takeaway users. According to estimates, by 2020, the takeaway market can break through To 700 billion.
Wen Zongguo, director of Tsinghua University's Center for Circular Economy Industry Research, once said that the plastic products used for takeout are mostly made of polypropylene and polyethylene, which are hard to degrade and take-away garbage in addition to lunch boxes, lunch cups and plastic bags, Food residue.
In an interview with China's Sankei Shimbun, an executive in charge of anonymity said that one-time meal box recycling is unprofitable and therefore the recovery rate is very low. These disposable lunch boxes are mainly incinerated and filled Buried
According to the person in charge, the non-degradable ingredients in the disposable tableware buried in the landfill will cause no small pollution to the environment, however, if incineration is carried out, dioxin British, and dioxin will produce carcinogens.
Many loopholes to be blocked
Disposable lunch boxes and plastic packaging are currently recognized as' non-degradable 'white rubbish', and these 'white rubbish' in the handling of improper handling, it will cause pollution to our environment.
This phenomenon also aroused the concern of the relevant state departments.National Development and Reform Commission He Lifeng said that the NDRC will work with relevant departments to adjust the 'plastic limit order' to study and formulate a take-out in the take-away industry and other industries to develop a series of non-degradable plastic packaging related implementation aspects .
The reporter also saw on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission that the NDRC has set up a special column entitled 'Suggestions for the Prevention and Control of Plastic Waste Pollution' and solicited public opinions and suggestions on the management of plastic products in various fields from all walks of life.
According to the Circular of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Reform Commission, the consumption of plastic lunch boxes, plastic packaging, etc. has risen sharply in recent years due to the development of new formats such as electricity supplier, express delivery and take-away, which have caused new pressure on resources and environment. White pollution, there is no environmental risk of non-standard treatment of plastic garbage.
It is understood that the National Development and Reform Commission is studying the formulation of prevention and control of plastic garbage pollution policy documents, in accordance with the restrictions on a group, instead of a group, a group of norms of the principle of different production, living, consumption and other plastic products used in the sub-areas, sub-categories Put forward policy measures.
At the same time, the State Post Bureau and other 10 departments also jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Synergistically Promoting Green Packaging in the Courier Industry". While clearly defining the green packaging regulations and standards in the express delivery industry, it is necessary to implement the green certification of express packaging products and increase the express delivery of green packaging products Supply use.
'Green packaging, packaging and environmental protection from the social point of view, promotion and promotion are necessary, which represents a social management functions and responsibilities of the country.' Fujian Post Logistics Co., Ltd. Industry Development Wang Xianru, director of industry in accepting the ' Said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency, the social and economic benefits and impacts that can really be produced are still very weak. On the one hand, the express delivery as a retail package will certainly be much more than the bulk sales in the packaging consumables; secondly, Recycling costs are also high, which is an important reason for restricting the development of recycling packaging containers.
However, Wang Xianru believes that despite the weak green packaging, but ideologically, such a publicity week is still necessary.
According to Gao Changchen, government departments should give full play to their leading role in guiding businesses to use degradable tableware as much as possible and encourage enterprises to develop disposable tableware that is low-cost, easily degradable and environmentally-friendly, thus improving the environmental protection issues brought by take-away and delivery.
However, insiders believe that the take-out of environmental issues caused by the issue, the solution is not easy.Industry believes that the platform, which can play a limited role in the need to coordinate take-away businesses, take-away platforms, meal boxes producer As well as consumers and other relevant parties work together to make the problem eased.
'Take-away platform as the core of the supply chain, duty-bound.Production responsibility extension system should be implemented in takeaways, takeaway take-away garbage disposal and disposal costs by the take-away enterprises, rather than pay the bill by the government, universal pay. He said that the government should shoulder the guiding and regulatory responsibilities. At the national level, regulations on the management of packaging waste should be formulated to define various packaging design, production, circulation, recovery, treatment and utilization of take-away garbage, Responsibility, and regulate personal, business and government behavior.