According to the Central News Agency, to promote environmental protection, the Queen Elizabeth II announced a few days ago that Buckingham Palace and other royal properties will not be allowed to use disposable plastic straws and plastic bottles.
Reported that in the future, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle and other British royal real estate conference room and coffee shop, will replace the plastic bottles with glass bottles, biodegradable food packaging bags and plastic pipette will also be disabled. Royal real estate staff canteen also Will switch to porcelain dishes, glass and recyclable paper cups, takeaway food will be used to break down packaging.
The royal family will also invest more effort in resource recycling. Royal staff will receive regular 'green news letters' and the packaging materials must be reusable when moving items within royal properties.
Many plastic packaging is often used only once, thrown into the trash can, causing environmental damage.According to statistics, the United Kingdom each year using 7.7 billion disposable plastic bottles, of which less than half will be recycled, which represents about 1600 per day Thousands of plastic bottles were thrown into the trash.
More than 300 million tons of plastic waste are manufactured globally every year, about 10% of which is thrown into the ocean.According to the environmental group, by 2050, 99% of the native seabirds in the UK will swallow up a certain amount of plastic waste, and the plastic waste in the ocean will More than fish, endanger 600 different species.