People's Daily: Promote the renovation of disposable tableware and provide a market for degradable plastics!
April 22 is Earth Day. UN Secretary-General Guterres delivered a video speech that day, calling on the international community to actively respond to the triple crises of climate damage, loss of nature and biodiversity, and environmental pollution and waste facing the earth. Taking care of the earth and reducing the pollution of plastic waste is inseparable from everyone's efforts.
Another statistics show that in 2020, China's takeaway market will generate 17 billion orders, and each order requires an average of 3.44 lunch boxes, of which plastic lunch boxes account for nearly 70%. In addition, about 90% of orders require the use of plastic bags. The takeaway industry is undoubtedly one of the main demanders of plastic packaging, and the problem of plastic pollution in takeaway packaging also follows. Studies have shown that in 2020, China's food delivery industry will generate a total of 1.6 million tons of plastic waste.
On April 26, 2022, the People's Daily published a report entitled "Low-Carbon Life, You and Me" on the Eco-Edition. The report pointed out that a market foundation should be provided for degradable plastics.
People's Daily reporter Kou Jiangze once commented on the first anniversary of the release of Document No. 80 that plastic restrictions cannot be "one size fits all"! Localities should take into account the actual situation. Today, Kou Jiangze has published an article again, conveying expert advice: to improve the hygienic standards and market prices of food packaging products, and to provide a market basis for the large-scale use of degradable plastics.
