Plastic foam tableware and disposable green tableware

The eradication of white pollution refers to a national ordinance issued in the form of plastic foam tableware (EPS). Many people do not know exactly what harm plastic foamed tableware is. At present, the non-degradability of plastic foamed tableware has been well known by people. However, the plastic foamed tableware will have any impact on people's health, or harm, which most people do not know.

Plastic foam tableware is recognized for its light weight, good thermal insulation properties and low price. However, due to its non-degradability and lagging behind in China's recycling management, a large number of discarded dishes have not been cured for many years, resulting in serious white pollution. The main idea of ​​the state banned plastic foam tableware is mainly from the protection of the environment consider. As for whether the plastic foam tableware has any harm to the human body, although there are many opinions about the differences, so far, no authoritative scientific research unit at home and abroad has provided sufficient evidence to illustrate. The result of scientific research in Japan is that plastic foamed tableware is harmless to the human body. For these reasons, it can be said that the use of plastic foam tableware is safe, the pollution caused is not the fault of plastic foam tableware, but our humanity itself, with the continuous improvement of the recycling system on the market, plastic foam tableware The problem of recycling has been solved. Of course, the pollution problem has also been remedied. Is it necessary to limit the production and sales of plastic foam tableware?

In order to protect the environment, China has banned the production and sale of plastic foamed tableware. A variety of environmentally friendly tableware have emerged. The most representative of these are environmentally friendly tableware and cardboard laminates. With the passage of time, in the continuous development, there have been degradable plastic tableware, vegetable fiber synthetic tableware, starchy tableware, and some of the technology is our original creation. These cutlery to a certain extent, instead of a part of the market share of plastic foam tableware, contributed to the elimination of white pollution. However, unsatisfactory places have slowly emerged, although the products are environmentally friendly, but the price is generally higher than plastic foam tableware, the use of disposable green tableware can not be compared with plastic foam tableware in terms of performance and hygienic conditions, especially Is not as thermal insulation performance plastic foam tableware. Pulp and cardboard tableware prices are 3-4 times higher than plastic foam tableware, and some products are even higher. Because of their high prices, difficulties arise in market promotion and application. Pulp tableware production has complex production processes, slow production speeds, high labor costs, and large consumption of water and electricity. This is tantamount to a constant waste of resources and does not meet the strategic thinking of sustainable development. Although the degradable plastic tableware can achieve energy conservation, can be continuously automated, and the cost is relatively low, most enterprises add excess filler (calcium carbonate or starch) to the resin. If it is not produced by a double-layer composite process, Quality can not be guaranteed at all, but most of the current market is to use a simple single-layer pull-sheet extrusion molding equipment production, a large number of fillers to make the product as soft as paper, rough surface. Such so-called environmental protection tableware will really bring harm to human body. As for some plant fiber molding and various types of starch products, some technologies are incomplete or costly, and some technologies are still in the experimental stage. Although there are also relatively mature technologies, they cannot be approved by consumers for a variety of reasons. The use and sales of these products cannot be seen in the market.

Based on the above reasons, at present, China's disposable tableware market is: plastic foam tableware prohibition, but also occupy half of the country. There are many kinds of environmentally-friendly tableware, and counterfeit and inferior tableware basically rule the majority of environmentally-friendly tableware. The true environmental protection tableware is already struggling on all sides, and its market share is less than 30%.

We advocate environmental protection, but to be scientific and to protect the environment must also take into account protection and conservation of resources, blind measures, and a temporary feverishness will inevitably leave behind irreparable complications. We lost the follies of picking watermelons and picking up sesame. Our generation did it. Still less? . Plastic products are a non-renewable natural resource that can be reused. The degradable plastic tableware can not be recycled. Why do we have to decompose a lot of precious petroleum resources and let it digest it in the soil? Is it that our resources can be squandered and wasted? Is it possible one day that our children and grandchildren will be reclaimed from the soil and reclaimed from the soil the plastic residue that we thought was contaminated? It can be said that promoting the use of degradable plastics is a mistake. The ban will continue, but what the market really needs now is counterfeiting green tableware.

The government's policy of eradicating white pollution is to be implemented. However, it is impossible to rely on corporate behavior and self-discipline and self-discipline. The government should earnestly implement the laws and regulations that it has set, and must really manage it. It is better not to say that the policies introduced have not been implemented, or to simply withdraw them. If our government does not pay attention, law enforcement departments still close their eyes, no one has to implement the ban policy, fake and inferior tableware no one to investigate. Then, environmental protection cutlery will never break out of the city.