Shanghai takeaway lunch box will have big changes.
On April 27th, the nation’s first group standard for food delivery boxes was released in Shanghai. Takeaway paper bowls will be used instead of plastic food delivery boxes in the takeout industry. On the basis of guaranteeing quality and safety, the coated paper bowls can be reduced by approximately 75% or more. Plastic trash.
The reporter learned from the scene that it was hungry. Baidu, the US group take-out meal delivery platform began pilot trials in Changning, Pudong and Putuo in June and gradually promoted to the whole city. The group standard released this time was version 1.0, Shanghai. The Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision will follow up the implementation and initiate the drafting of the group standard version 2.0 in due course.
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The problem of soaring plastic waste caused by takeaway lunch boxes cannot be ignored.
Chen Xiaojun, deputy director of the Shanghai Bureau of Quality Supervision, revealed that the rise of the take-away industry has provided convenience for the general public to eat. According to incomplete statistics, the average daily meal order in Shanghai is as high as 1.65 million. However, it is estimated that one year's worth of plastic waste will be delivered. There will be more than 1.2 billion boxes, about 45,000 tons, which will put pressure on Shanghai's environmental and waste reductions.
To this end, the Shanghai Bureau of Quality Supervision organizes relevant departments to guide the industry associations to get hungry. Baidu and the US group take-out meal delivery platform jointly set the group standards for take-away meal delivery boxes.
In the process of group standards development, the Bureau of Quality Supervision organized a standards drafting group composed of 15 professors, enterprise managers, platform managers, institutional experts, and association personnel. It organized 43 collections of relevant standards, and held multi-sectoral meetings. The drafting of the expert meeting was based on the three major drafting principles of 'Everything starts from reality', 'Making use of mature technologies', and 'Adhere to continuous improvement'. Based on a large number of experiments, we decided to replace paper-based tableware as the main attack direction.
After the general direction was determined, the Municipal Quality Inspection Institute conducted more than 50 simulated use environmental tests on 65 indicators of more than 2,000 samples and over 50 simulations; organized a meal delivery platform to carry out more than 180 simulations of meal delivery boxes for 59 dishes; The meeting was held 17 times. More than 200 people were solicited for comments. After the standard five changes were made to its manuscript, a group standard for take-out meal boxes was finalized. It included take-away paper bowls, two bags for meal delivery, and its accompanying management standards totaling three group standards. .
It is understood that at present, no cities have yet fully promoted the use of paper cutlery or biodegradable tableware in place of take-out plastic food delivery boxes. The group standard released this time was version 1.0, which required the use of coated paper bowls instead of plastic food delivery boxes. First.
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The paper bowl standard adjusted the relevant indicators.
In the paper bowl standard, the Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision on the 'KMnO4 consumption', 'mold' and other two indicators related to health and safety, and 'compressive strength', 'leakage performance' and other physical properties involved 2 The indicators have been improved respectively, with the minimum increase of 5%, the maximum increase of 80%, firmly holding the bottom line of food safety and hygiene, to ensure that the food is rest assured.
At the same time, according to environmental conditions such as stacking, jolting, temperature and humidity during the Chinese cuisine dish delivery and distribution, “combination”, “tilt”, “tolerance” and “overall compressive property” were purposefully created in the standard. ' Wait for 4 indicators to ensure that the lunch boxes are comfortable to use, enhance consumer experience, highlight highlights.
In the delivery bag standard, three options are provided for paper bags, biodegradable bags, and textile bags to replace traditional plastic bags. In the management specification, a list of qualified suppliers is designed, periodical verification, point management, complaint feedback, and commitment implementation. The five-point mechanism. Among them, the points management regulations, for food and beverage service providers who do not use the standard requirements of the paper bowl, delivery bags, deducted 15 points at a time. Some unused, once deducted 10 points. Deduction points accumulated to different points, The tripartite platform will adopt different measures such as 'reduction of rankings', 'abolition of platform subsidies activities', 'relief and rectification', 'offline correction' and other measures.
It is reported that the group standard is a standard that social organizations coordinate market entities to jointly formulate and promise to implement. Hungry, Baidu, the US group take-away meal delivery platform in the three pilot districts of Changning, Pudong, and Putuo started in June and gradually promoted. Citywide.
The Shanghai Bureau of Quality Supervision will follow the implementation of the group standards after release, keep an eye on the development of new technologies and new products, start the drafting of the group standard version 2.0 in a timely manner, and incorporate mature and environmentally-friendly products into the scope of standard substitution, continuously improve and optimize products. Indicator system. The City Food and Drug Administration will formulate relevant regulatory guidance and urge network delivery companies to actively use take-out food delivery boxes that are produced according to group standards, and will continue to expand the scope of use. The City Greening and Urban Recycling Bureau will follow up on the take-away meal boxes. City garbage source release management and end processing of the work.