In online news and real life, we can see eye-popping images every day: plastic waste piled up into mountains; marine life is encrusted by plastic products; disgusting plastic waste is washed up on the coast, etc. Meanwhile, relevant media hype plastic Coffee cups, drinking straws, and packaging are harmful to the environment and organisms, subconsciously reinforcing our recognition of the dangers of plastic products. Until now, people have considered plastic products as one of the global environmental health rivals.
Past and present life of plastic bottles: rational use, reducing pollution
It is undeniable that beverage bottle products represented by plastic bottles have caused significant pollution and damage to the global environment. However, it is worth pondering and considering: How should we recycle and rationally use them to reduce waste of resources and the environment? Pollution.
Take plastic bottles as an example. Let's take a look at what can be done.
Recycling beverage bottles
It is reported that British consumers use about 13 billion plastic beverage bottles each year, of which more than 3 billion are not recycled. In response to this, it has been clearly recognized that the United Kingdom of seriousness of plastic pollution has taken many measures in recent years, from the government to the people. , From the masses to the individuals.
Recently, a bottle recycling program will be implemented in the United Kingdom to increase the recycling rate of waste and reduce land and sea pollution. According to the plan, consumers will pay a certain deposit when they buy beverages and return them when returning beverage bottles. Deposits. Currently, this recycling initiative is currently in Denmark, Sweden and Germany.
In addition, Scotland has announced a deposit plan, and Wales has also initiated a study to consider this plan. The Norwegian government has imposed a tax on each bottle of unrecovered beverage bottles, and announced that the recycling rate of PET bottles through the program Has reached 94%.
Recycling of plastic bottles
Faced with the severe environmental problems in the contemporary era, many people in China have proposed green consumption concepts such as reducing the use of plastic products, reducing disposable daily necessities and promoting the recycling of resources, and reducing plastic pollution through the recycling of beverage bottles.
For example, the students of the Shanxi Agricultural University’s School of Information recently made use of waste plastic bottles to produce spider plants, colorful wind chimes, table lamps and other items. They have won great acclaim. Through the organized plastic waste creative competition, the agricultural universities called on the public to focus on the public together. The topics closely related to daily life are concerned with the severe environmental problems of the contemporary era, and proposes more than 20 specific behaviors such as reducing the use of plastic products, reducing disposable daily necessities, green consumption, green trips, and recycling of resources, and advocating a positive change in public perception. Green healthy lifestyle.
In addition to ornamental creative items, beverage bottles can also be transformed into life style products. Recently, R. BOTTLES, a Beijing-based partner of the Gallery Week, has transformed daily disposable rubbish into environmentally-friendly recycled materials, and created a T-shirt based on fashionable design concepts. And environmental protection products such as handbags, and firmly believe that 'the fusion of environmental protection and art will be popular!'
Plastic bottles will be replaced by aluminum bottles?
As a disposable plastic packaging container, plastic bottles are widely used in various areas of product packaging design. With people's attention to the problem of plastic pollution or the emphasis on environmental health, beverage packaging gradually shows a diversified development trend.
According to institutional research data, about 16 million plastic bottles are in the ocean or landfill every day in the UK. As plastics are degraded during the recycling process, the cost of recycling is higher than that of re-production, which also hinders the recycling of plastics. One of the important reasons. In contrast, aluminum is one of the most easily recycled materials in the world. It can maintain quality in the recycling process. Recently, the British company CanO Water proposed using aluminum cans instead of plastic bottles to solve plastic pollution. problem.