Xinhua News Agency Shanghai has officially announced the group standards for food delivery box series. With the standard pilot implementation of the series of groups on June 1st, are you hungry? Baidu’s take-out and US group food delivery platform will be part of the pilot area in Shanghai. Replacing plastic food delivery boxes with coated paper bowls is expected to reduce plastic waste by more than 75% on the basis of quality and safety.
The Internet + ordering platform has developed rapidly in recent years. Incomplete statistics show that the average daily outbound ordering amount in Shanghai is as high as 1.65 million. The quality of the delivery box and the proliferation of plastic waste have become increasingly prominent. According to calculations, only Shanghai In 2012, there were more than 1.2 billion pieces of discarded plastic food containers, and about 45,000 tons. The group standards for the group of food delivery boxes announced this time included take-away paper bowls, two products for delivery bags, and management specifications for them. There are three groups in total. Standards. Zhang Ruohong, executive vice president of the Shanghai Association of Food Contact Materials, introduced that group standards are more stringent than the current national standard in many indicators. For example, the fungal index has increased by 80% relative to the national standard. It also proposes the use of paper bags, biodegradable plastics. Bags, textile bags to replace the traditional plastic bags. 'According to the environmental conditions of stacking, jolting, temperature and humidity during the Chinese food delivery and delivery process, the group standards also set 'combination', 'tilt' and 'tolerance' and 'Overall Compressive Resistance' and other four indicators improve the durability of lunch boxes.
The group standard also stipulates that, for paper bowls that do not use standard requirements, the food and beverage companies that deliver the bags will be deducted. After the deduction points are added to different scores, the online ordering platform will take a lower ranking, cancel the platform subsidy activities, and temporarily rectify the changes. Line rectification and other disposal measures.
Chen Xiaojun, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, said that group standards are the standards that social organizations coordinate and jointly implement and promise to implement. The three network delivery platforms will start in Shanghai in the three districts of Changning, Pudong and Putuo from June. Pilot, the next step will be gradually extended to the city's scope. 'Quality supervision department will start the drafting of the group standard version 2.0 in the future, continuous improvement and optimization of product indicators system.'