Hot take-away market has caused great "white garbage" pollution

In the afternoon of a working day, CCTV financial reporter walked into a large office in Guangzhou City, lunch just over, floor trash can be "white garbage" completely occupied. Clean workers told CCTV financial journalists, where the plastic waste is a lunch box. Sanitation workers said that the total amount of garbage, plastic bags are more, most of the foam boxes, which cause large workload.

In order to save costs, businesses take delivery time, most of the use of disposable plastic lunch boxes. And even the environmentally friendly materials, lunch boxes, but also often as a one-time items, run out of disposable, and then very low utilization rate.

Take-out meal service introduction, the bubble occupy most of the time, about 60%. Reporters interviewed the people of Guangzhou, also said that lunch boxes are used up when the garbage out. Like this point of a takeaway, how much environmental costs to pay it? US group take-away, hungry what, Baidu take away three takeaway platform data show that the total daily orders have more than 20 million single according to a single take-away only a plastic bag and a plastic lunch box, each plastic bag and plastic lunch boxes are 0.06 square meters, a rough estimate, each meal platform every day the size of the waste plastic, can reach 2.4 million Square meters, about the equivalent of 336 football fields.

Data show that only 14% of the country's plastic packaging has been recovered. And now, takeaway businessmen to provide lunch boxes, in addition to environmentally friendly paper tableware, polypropylene (PP) tableware, but also includes four years ago lifted the one-time foam tableware.

For a large number of unmanned foam tableware, experts said that if companies want to do EPS recycling, environmentally friendly pollution handling system is too expensive, so this kind of take-away garbage, generally only incineration. If you want to encourage the recycling of waste plastics and other renewable resources, you need to establish a corresponding subsidy mechanism.