The Zero-Waste Alliance recently released the "10th Anniversary of Plastic Restriction Order - Research Report on Business Implementation". The survey shows that many markets and supermarkets still provide plastic bags for free. Many plastic bags are still plastic products, most plastic bags. The production standards have not been met, and the use of new products such as online shopping and take-out has increased, and the use of plastic products has increased significantly. The report believes that after ten years of implementation, the prohibition of plastics has not played its due role. (July 1 Beijing Youth Daily)
The plastic ban makes plasticity, and execution will not hurt.
From the consumer terminal, there is no vendor, which takeaway, which express insists on the 'plastic limit order' and does not provide consumers with plastic bags for free. Because as long as someone provides it, his business will be affected. This is bad money. The effect of expelling good money; from the big supermarket, although the shopping bags are no longer provided to consumers free of charge, they can be bought casually, which in turn increases the enthusiasm of the supermarket to provide plastic bags. At the same time, the plastic bags in the supermarket can be casually Used, even the public figure is convenient, excessive use of these bags. Obviously, the effect of limiting the consumption of the terminal is almost zero.
From the production front end, the production cost of plastic bags is too low, and the cost of paper bags or degradable plastic bags is too high, and the non-degradable plastic bags can also pretend to be degradable plastic bags, which makes manufacturers more willing to produce non-degradable products. The plastic bag. Then from the front end, the failure to do so, to ask the terminal naturally unwilling.
From the post-event aspect of supervision, there is also plasticity in supervision. Whether it is the production front-end or the consumer terminal, the power of supervision is compared with the huge market, and it is not obvious that staring at 24 hours a day. After the front foot is checked, the back foot is bought correctly. Obviously, the passive supervision is not good.
All of this shows that consumers' pursuit of convenience is higher than the pursuit of environmental protection. It is like people sharing their bicycles while sharing bicycles. We must emphasize environmental awareness, but if it is only limited to environmental awareness. Ignore people's dependence on convenience, and it is always difficult to get a win-win situation.
To solve this problem, it is necessary to use the convenience to force environmental protection. That is, through the corresponding legislation, all enterprises are prohibited from producing non-degradable plastic bags and other plastic packaging products, and enterprises are encouraged to produce high quality and low price paper bags through innovation. The cost is rising. Then, the market may have a degradable plastic bag of 1 yuan, and a paper bag may cost 2 yuan. In this way, small business hawkers will not send it at will, and some consumers will not be willing to buy it. After all, according to the experience of using plastic bags free of charge, it is necessary to use seven or eight or even dozens of plastic bags when going out to buy leeks. If you buy paper bags, the public will not be willing to spend more than ten yuan. So, there must be consumers shopping for food. At the time, I want to bring paper bags or cloth bags from home. And takeaway or express delivery is bound to be forced to innovate new packaging. By doing so, in order to save convenience and save money, many consumers will gradually develop the habit of bringing their own shopping bags. In this way, the problem of non-degradable plastic bag packaging garbage is solved by the way.
Of course, this still needs to encourage enterprises to continue to innovate. For example, can the food preservation of refrigerators have other ways to replace the use of plastic wrap? Can the enterprise produce a multi-functional box for garbage sorting, the government gives certain subsidies, and it is convenient for families. In short, the problem of the ban on plastics has to be made from the idea of supply-side structural reform.