June 5th was World Environment Day. This year's theme is 'Match of War', which calls on the whole world to work together to fight one-time plastic pollution. The theme of our country is 'Beautiful China, I am the actor'. However, in the Ten years after the issuance of the plastic order, the reporter found that plastic products are still the main shopping and packaging tools, and efforts to curb white pollution need to be made.
Plastic bags are still widely used
On June 5th, in the convenient market of Yuhubei Road in the downtown area of the city, there was a lot of people coming and going, and the business was booming. However, the reporter found that the vendors here are basically using transparent or translucent plastic bags whether they are selling buns or fruits and vegetables. For packaging, the people who come here for shopping are all covered with plastic bags. Even if people have their own shopping belt, they will use the plastic bags provided by the vendors as packaging.
Convenience market, street stalls like this, What about supermarket shopping malls? A reporter interviewed and found that in a supermarket on Anning Street in the downtown area, although the plastic bags were charged, they still could not stop people from using the enthusiasm. Reporter observation, ten minutes During the time there were dozens of individuals shopping and only two people used their own shopping bags. The ages of these two citizens are all over the age of 50. If there are fewer items to buy, someone will choose to hold them. Goods, and if you buy more items, most young people will choose to spend a few cents to buy a plastic bag. Not only that, the reporter found that in the supermarket, almost 99% of the goods are in plastic packaging, even if there are Commodity is the use of cardboard boxes as the outer packaging, most of the inner packaging will still be packed in plastic bags. This phenomenon is common in many places.
In addition, in recent years, the rise of the take-out industry, most of the take-out lunch boxes and other plastic products have become another important consumption of disposable plastic products.
Why is pollution so serious
Plastic products are called 'white pollution' and it is difficult to completely degrade. It will decompose into smaller microplastics, flow into rivers, oceans, or deep underground, contaminating groundwater sources and soils. Microplastics cannot be effectively absorbed by organisms. In the end, it will go to the table with plants or animals, into the human body, harming human health.
Why is 'white pollution' so damaging? Why is it difficult? For the reporter to find out, the reason is that there is no more effective substitute for convenience and price, and it lacks a top-down effective implementation. Restricted use policy. Plastic bags are inexpensive, whether it is merchants or consumers, for cost and price considerations, will tend to choose cheaper and convenient to use. Plastic bags waterproof, strong, easy processing, as a package with its Advantages: If it is replaced with a paper bag, it will not only be easily scratched, penetrated, but also difficult to carry. The use of biodegradable plastic products will increase the cost.
In addition, in terms of policy, many policies can only be implemented, whether it is encouraging waste separation and recycling, or reducing the use of plastics. This makes it difficult to achieve the desired requirements.
Public suggestions from the little things
Although, we can't get rid of the dependence on plastic products for a while, but for our environment, for our health, we can reduce the pollution of plastic products to the environment by doing something small. The citizen Leihua suggested that in daily life , Minimize the use of plastic products, use cartons, cloth bags, or recycle plastic products. In addition, you can reduce pollution by changing certain lifestyle habits, such as reducing the number of point takeouts, packing with your own lunch box, try not to use Sex boxes, etc. When throwing garbage, you can spend more energy, sort garbage well, so that plastic products can be effectively recycled.