The United Nations Environment Program recently released the World Environment Day theme 2018 - 'Quick Fixation', calling on all countries in the world to work together to tackle the problem of one-time plastic pollution, which shows that the issue of one-time plastic pollution has become a tremendous and deserving global concern. Important environmental pollution problems.
During the NPC and CPPCC sessions, representatives of plastic pollution, especially micro-plastic pollution, also attracted great attention. Proposals by the Central Committee of the Democratic League and the Central Committee of China for Democracy and People's Republic of China have proposed that the impact of micro-plastic pollution hazards is imminent and should be given high priority and precautionary measures.
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Like PM2.5 in the ocean, it is increasingly threatening the living safety of marine life
Micro plastic pollution is a neglected and huge environmental pollution problem.Micro-plastic pollution has been listed as the second largest scientific issue in the field of environmental and ecological science research at the 2nd UN Environment Assembly in 2015, Major global environmental issues that are tied to global climate change, ozone depletion and ocean acidification.
According to the data from the Central Government's statistics, there are currently about 5.25 trillion plastic trash in the world's oceans, of which 92% are plastic microspheres with a particle size of less than 5 mm. For marine organisms, plastic microspheres are like the ocean PM2.5, due to the presence of plasticizers, can adsorb toxic and harmful substances from the environment, and marine animals such as zooplankton, shellfish, fishes, seabirds and mammals will have an increasing threat to their growth, development and reproduction after ingestion Their survival and security.
Micro-plastic for the ecological hazards also should not be underestimated.Lands Central Proposal also concerned about this issue.The proposal warned that the plastic microspheres are small, can not be sequestered by the sewage treatment plant filtration equipment, and eventually into the rivers, lakes and the sea, Long-term presence and abundant enrichment in the environment, such persistent organic pollution is also a challenge for water pollution control.
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In daily life, about 1 gram of plastic microspheres is emitted per person per day
At present, our country is not paying enough attention to the problems of marine plastic pollution, especially the pollution of plastic microspheres, and has not yet formed the relevant restriction policy. The plastic bead added hand soap, toilet soap, toothpaste, shaving foam, foam bath, sunscreen , Shampoo and other products are full of people's daily lives.
It is estimated that in everyday life, about 1 gram of plastic microspheres is emitted per person per day, taking Shanghai as an example, about 7,300 tons of plastic microspheres are released in one year according to the resident population of 20 million. These plastic microspheres eventually enter the sewage pipe network Sewage treatment plant. Due to the current sewage treatment process can not effectively remove the plastic microspheres, these plastic microspheres with the sludge into the environment cause ecological harm.
Around the world, the European Union, Canada, Australia, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium and Sweden have successively eliminated the plastic action or enacted relevant laws and decrees.Many well-known companies have also promised to reduce or stop the use of plastic microspheres.It is understood that the United States Illinois will be the first in the nation to ban the use of plastic microspheres in cosmetics and personal care products by 2018, the ban on cosmetic products containing plastic microspheres in 2019, followed by California and New York.
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Constraints on legal regulations and related standards promulgated are very important
On the other hand, the relevant standards can encourage and guide the innovation and upgrading of enterprises to lead the green development of the industry. On the one hand, the effectiveness of laws and regulations is immediate; on the other hand, .
The Central Committee of China for Democracy and People's Progress urged that the first is to raise awareness of the dangers of plastic microspheres at the national level by formulating national and regional plans of action for the management of marine plastic wastes and promoting the introduction of relevant legislation and public policies so as to reduce ocean waste and establishing a national plastic management system Plastic waste management system.
Second, the implementation of market and non-market instruments and incentives to guide enterprises to stop adding microspheres to the daily chemical products to encourage cosmetics companies continue to upgrade and look for more natural, biodegradable scrub particles, such as oats, corn, sea salt, Almond or walnut shell and other natural materials as an alternative material.
In addition, it is also important for the public to strengthen publicity and guide the public, and the NLD Central Committee has recommended that a comprehensive survey of personal care products should be conducted, a list of products using plastic microspheres as additives should be listed and their contents should be specified to encourage and guide residents in daily life and consumption Consciously reduce the use and resistance of products containing plastic microspheres as soon as possible to form a green lifestyle.