According to Taiwan’s “United Daily News”, Taiwan’s 'Environmental Protection Agency' detected tap water purification sites, farming areas, beach tap water, sea water, beach gravel and shellfish, confirmed that most samples were found to contain plastic particles. Representing the use of plastics is too rampant. In addition to reviewing Taiwan's related recycling mechanisms, it is more important to reduce the use of plastics from the source. Otherwise, it will enter the food chain and harm humans themselves.
Xie Helin, head of the environmental protection group, said that in the past there were bathing supplies and cleaning products containing plastic particles, which have now been banned. If there is such a thing in the environment, it will not only harm the ecology, but also enter the human body through drinking water, shellfish and other food chains.
He believes that the Taiwan authorities, the people should suppress the abuse of plastics, use plastics for essential uses, and recycle them after use. The general public will litter plastic garbage, even if the cleaning team recycles them, and finally pile them up. Some plastic garbage collection sites are equal to Garbage dumps, when the typhoon comes, the garbage goes everywhere. Even if only 1% of the litter is litter, it will cause serious problems. These plastics will slowly break down in the environment, the fish will eat in, enter the digestive tract, humans Eat fish, plastic back to the human body.
Xie Helin also pointed out that plastic packaging supplies are too cheap, so that everyone does not know the use of control.
Zhang Huijun, the head of another environmental protection group, said that Taiwan’s 'EPA' is willing to do such a survey is a good thing. Plastic particles have always existed in aquaculture shellfish, drinking water, but in the past everyone did not know, I feel that the garbage problem is away from us. Life is very far away. I hope that through such a survey, people will spontaneously reduce the use of plastics. The authorities have to review the garbage collection policy and need everyone to promote it together.