The picture shows a supermarket shopping bag.
Wenzhou Netnews issued the "Notice on Restricting the Use of Plastic Shopping Bags for Production and Sale" on June 1st. The "Notice" is commonly known as the "Limited Plastic Order" and stipulates that all supermarkets, shopping malls, and bazaars in the country shall implement plastics uniformly. Shopping bag paid use system.
"Charging" is a primary concern of the "plastic limit". How to price plastic shopping bags has become the focus of many readers. Some people wonder: Did the price of plastic bags hit the cost of commodities? Will commodity prices at retail establishments be reduced slightly due to paid charges for plastic bags?
In the past few days, the reporter visited supermarkets, shopping malls, bazaars, and other places and found that some supermarkets, shopping malls, etc., have complied with the relevant provisions of the "plastic limit order," but some farmers' markets have not yet formed a conscious atmosphere. The day before yesterday, at the 3rd district of the market in the Lupu District, we bought some dishes at will. For plastic shopping bags, stall owners are generously giving away freebies. On June 1st, the reporter went to the children's toy market near Zhongshan Park and bought a toy. The stall owner took a plastic bag and did not mention the charges for plastic bags. “My plastic bag, the purchase price is forty-five cents each. Today’s Children’s Day business is good, and only 100 are used every day. The cost is four or five yuan. Usually there are only two or three yuan. Your original toy is 38 yuan. I You are 3 yuan cheaper, this plastic bag is also eager to collect your money?" But the stall owner said that if the relevant departments must request fees, they will also comply, but may be some of the toys slightly cheaper prices, so it is an easy integer . In this way, even if you sell the plastic shopping bag to you, it is still not the customer's money.
Is it also a waste to promote thick plastic bags?
At the same time, the “Limiting Plastic Order†stipulates that ultrathin plastic shopping bags with a thickness of less than 0.025 mm will be prohibited from being produced, sold, and used. This is the second topic that deserves attention.
"Are thick plastic shopping bags easier to burn and landfill than thin ones?" "A handful of onion has only one or two cents, but also a thick plastic bag. Isn't it also a waste?"
The prohibition of thickness ignores the role of thin plastic bags, and is even detrimental to resource conservation. Professor Xia Fengyi, director of the Environmental Engineering Research Institute of Wenzhou University, believes that it is necessary to limit the thickness of plastic bags. "Thick bags are generally not easily broken, and can be reused many times." The thin bags are not durable enough to be discarded after damage, increasing "white pollution." Professor Xia said that he had visited the Yueqing landfill. Along the way, rivers, branches, etc., were flying around with thin plastic bags.
Source terminal control is the key to pollution prevention
With regard to the implementation of the "plastic limit order", Professor Xia believes that trying to use economic means to allow consumers to use plastic bags as little as possible to reduce white pollution, "limited plastic" is only a means, the fundamental purpose is to improve the environmental awareness of all citizens. He believes that as the government's functional departments and some manufacturers must have a sense of social responsibility, in addition to the increase in environmental awareness of the public, there are two key points, that is, from the source control, production, use of biodegradable plastic bags; from the terminal control , to strengthen the recycling of plastic shopping bags.
He believes that biodegradable plastic shopping bags is the future trend, and technology has become more mature, its high-grade, durable, environmentally friendly advantages, blocking the "white pollution" from the source, but it is high cost, and the market is now chaotic, It restricts its development, but it is always a trend.
Recycling is the key. Because some plastic bags are too thin and can not be reused, causing litter everywhere. Professor Xia said that as long as recycling is in place, rational use of technology is not a problem. "Recycled plastic shopping bags, as long as they are of high purity, can be obtained through recycling, melting, granulating, and other technical means, and can be used as raw materials for the production of other plastic products, which are of considerable value."
Professor Xia believes that the production of biodegradable plastic shopping bags is also good, recycling is also good, the most important thing is to introduce a number of industrial policies, supervision is effective, both rewards and punishments.
He said plastic shopping bags also have some of its alternatives, such as paper bags or bamboo baskets, but these alternatives have certain limitations, and the advantages of low cost, easy carrying, and stable quality of plastic bags determine their current status. Only improve it with some new technologies and make it more environmentally friendly.