In December 2007, the Circular on Restrictions on the Use of Plastic Shopping Bags for Production and Sales, which was issued by the General Office of the State Council, was called 'plastic limit order' because of the strict stipulations on the national standards for daily use of plastic bags and the system of paid use. Today, 'Plastic limit order' has been a controversial ten years between the pursuit of the balance of convenience and environmental protection.
During the ten years, the effect of 'Plastic Limit Order' was mixed.
'Hi' is the 'white pollution' problem has been to some extent contain the data released by the National Development and Reform Commission in August 2016 showed that the use of plastic shopping bags at major retail outlets nationwide about an annual reduction of about 200,000 tons, a total reduction of more than about 160 Tons of tons, saving 70 billion plastic bags, equivalent to about 9 million tons of oil savings, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 30 million tons.
Behind a series of figures is the implementation of all-dimensional and restrictive means of plasticization in our country. In order to cooperate with the implementation of Plastic Limit Order, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China and the National Standards Commission successively released the General Technical Requirements for Environmental Protection, Safety and Labeling of Plastic Shopping Bags. 3 national standards, the definition and terms of plastic shopping bags, requirements, test methods, inspection rules and packaging, transportation and storage are made clear and stringent requirements under the guidance of the standard, all from the production and marketing aspects to start, clean up , Rectify the production enterprises, ban illegal business households, black dens, and guide the closure of small businesses and family workshops.At the same time, strengthen law enforcement supervision, centralized inspection of retail outlets, unqualified plastic shopping bag products to be sealed and destroyed In this way, we strictly control the daily plastic bags from the source and sales links.
At the same time, the joint management proceeded in an orderly manner.AQSIQ Joint National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Education and other 8 ministries and commissions issued the "Notice on Deepening the Implementation of Plastic Shopping Bags Deepening Production and Sales," and organized plastic limit propaganda activities to step up law enforcement inspection.
In recent years, with the development of such industries as e-commerce, express delivery and take-away, the consumption of plastic food containers and plastic packaging has risen rapidly, resulting in the pressure of new resources and environment. As a result of these new Format is just outside the scope of the implementation of 'plastic limit', 'plastic limit' face new challenges.In terms of takeaway, according to September 5, 2017 << Worker's Daily >> reported that the current US regiment, hungry, Baidu Take-out of the three platform daily orders amounted to about 20000000, according to each order consumes a plastic bag and a meal box calculation, daily at least 20 million plastic products are consumed.Express delivery industry is no exception, the State Post Bureau Statistics show that in 2016, the national express delivery business reached 31.28 billion pieces, consuming about 6.8 billion plastic bags.
In the beginning of 2018, the official website of the National Development and Reform Commission set up a column entitled "I offer advice and suggestions for the prevention and control of plastic garbage pollution" column. In the meantime, Invite people from all walks of life around the different areas of plastic products management requirements, make suggestions.
In fact, "white pollution" has become a problem that has plagued the world and different countries have different ways of restricting plastic. In March 2002, Ireland used "crazy" plastic bags to curb the use of plastic bags, and the legislation began to levy a tax on plastic bags, Environmental protection project .In 2006, the Italian government enacted legislation on the 'tax law' for plastic bag manufacturers, imposing heavy taxes to curb the production of plastic bags.Japan retail sales of supermarkets, convenience stores and other stores with container packaging materials over 50 tons a year Stores are obliged to set their own goals for cutting shopping bags and wrapping paper.Germany criminals who import or sell plastic bags can be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail and plastic bags to 6 months' imprisonment.
Drawn from the mature practice of plastic limit abroad, the emerging new problems, China's plastic limit laws and standards will be increasingly perfect.It is noteworthy that the AQSIQ, the National Standardization Committee released the "plastic shopping bags of environmental protection, safety and labeling common Technical requirements "national standards, in addition to appearance, food safety, safety and other requirements, but also made it clear that 'plastic shopping bags should have an environmental declaration', such as 'for the protection of the environment and save resources, please use' and so on.
In addition, plastic limit is equally important, the vast number of consumers should be environmentally friendly ideas into a daily habit, try to avoid one-time daily plastic bags, the use of paper bags, cotton bags, environmental protection but also from the individual .