On June 2nd, the China Consumers Association and the UN Environment Agency's Office in China, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau jointly organized the 2018 Earth Day Large-scale Public Welfare Campaign with the theme of 'swift and decisive action' in Beijing Chaoyang Park. Liu Qing, deputy secretary-general of the China Consumers Association, made a keynote speech titled 'Reducing Plastic Pollution and Building Beautiful China, I am the Actor'. The Consumers Association of China issued an initiative to reduce the pollution of plastic consumption to consumers across the country.
Liu Qing said that with take-out, online shopping has become a way of life, plastic pollution is increasingly serious. People have gradually realized that environmental pollution, ecological imbalances and other issues are unreasonable with humans, unsustainable consumption patterns are inseparable. General Secretary Xi Jinping At this year's National Conference on Eco-Environmental Protection, it was pointed out that green development must be promoted in an all-round way. Green consumption is an important part of green development. It requires the participation of all consumers to guide consumers’ civilization, health, resource conservation and environmental protection. It is the statutory responsibility of consumer organizations. To this end, the China Consumers Association calls on consumers nationwide to establish a concept of quality consumption, develop green, environmental, civilized, healthy, scientific, rational, cost-effective, shared new consumer concepts, and abandon the blind pursuit of luxury. , A waste of resources, the destruction of the environment behind the consumer behavior.
In terms of reducing plastic consumer pollution, the China Consumers Association has issued five specific initiatives to consumers across the country: Try to choose products that meet the requirements of green products, and consciously resist over-packaging of products; go shopping as far as possible to bring their own shopping equipment, and regain cloth bags. Food baskets, small carts; Actively implement 'disc action' for eating out, to avoid packing; Online shopping actively chooses sharable, reusable express packaging; consciously classify the waste generated by consumption, and promote the recycling of plastic waste. The China Consumers Association also called on companies to comprehensively promote the greenization of product packaging, reduce it, and recycle it. It is hoped that government departments will strengthen policy guidance and institutional constraints to reduce the generation of plastic waste and promote the recycling of plastic waste.
Liu Qing emphasized that only by eliminating the use of disposable plastic packaging products at the source can the plastic pollution be minimized. Building beautiful China requires the participation and support of every consumer. Green consumption must start with me. Start now.
In the publicity campaign, Nicholas Rosellini, UN System Coordinator in China, Chief Representative of the UN Environment Agency in China, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, and the relevant person in charge of the Digital Media Academy of the Beijing Film Academy respectively delivered speeches and visited them together. Plastic Art Exhibition.