Adapted to the plastic packages has caused great plastic pollution

A lot of modern consumers are adapted to the plastic packages. But these relatively modern wrappings perhaps annoy and worry people sometimes because they cause environment pollution, and many people could remember a time when they managed without plastic products.

People miss the old milk bottles which were made of glass and easily recyclable. People also miss the brown paper bags for loose fruit and vegetables. We used to drain our fried fish and chips on the paper bags. People used tea leaves and teapots instead of teabags. This isn’t the pointless nostalgia. It indicates that people can live without excessive plastic wrappings. Nowadays, online shop owners all like Russian doll style packaging with too much plastic.

Many people begin to think about packaging and foam cups recycling because the terrifying situation of polystyrene waste. According to the record, the types of plastic waste in one square meter on each side of the road are mainly plastic drink bottles, plastic bags and polystyrene food containers. Plastic waste can never be recycled completely. After the incomplete recycling, it becomes inferior in quality. Many plastic waste were buried or burned in the landfills.

In the oceans, plastic breaks down into molecules, which behaves like sponges and sop up other toxins.These plastic waste could be eaten by the fishes and then get into people’s food chain and poison us. All the polystyrene products ever made are still here, in one form or another. People can’t completely abandoned the use of plastic products. But we can recycle them effectively through plastic melting machine.

People should accept the adoption of sustainable materials such as glass and papers. By relying on a full evaluation of a material’s life cycle, sustainable materials can help people make more informed choices that conserve resources and reduce overall environmental impacts.

Before the end of the year there to be a complete ban on polystyrene cup

Domestic hand cup market is huge, each year produced about 200 million polystyrene cup, which not only caused serious pollution of the environment and the ocean, burning heat poisoning will also harm the human body. The EPD intends to completely ban the Polystyrene cup, which has already set out the relevant draft and is expected to be implemented before the end of the year.

Department of Chemistry, Taiwan Normal University Professor Wu Jiacheng said that the polystyrene is made of polystyrene foam, when heat, it easily released styrene monomer, polybenzene and other toxic substances, animal experiments confirmed that it will cause cancer, long-term accumulation of fear of the human body Carcinogenic risk. Some polyline has a color, and even add plasticizer or pigment, polyline tableware is best used, especially for the high temperature of the food loaded, it is not appropriate, with the food containers related to polystyrene should be fully prohibited.

Europe and the United States almost completely banned polystyrene container, the European environmental awareness was early, it was the first to ban polystyrene tableware; the United States So far, San Francisco, Seattle, San Jose and Portland, are fully restricted the use of polystyrene container, New York City also Will join ranks.

Mainland China has promulgated a ban in 2002, but by the industry's huge pressure, released in 2013, the current Asian only Malaysia Penang City, the prohibition of the use of Poly-Long tableware.

Taiwan's "plastic policy" on the road 12 years, although the Environmental Hygiene Department of the "store" of the catering industry, department stores, convenience stores and fast food shops, shall not provide plastic tableware, including foam plastic polystyrene tableware; But more than 8,600 out of the total number of outdoor beverage shop was not satisfied, the initial assessment of the industry to use about 1.5 billion each year out of the cup, of which about 200 million is the fleet, the ps foam cups recycling rate is less than 2 percent.

If polystyrene cups can not be used for direct drinking hot drinks?

Reporter interviewed Zhejiang University of Technology Professor Feng Jie (Zhejiang Plastics Engineering Society and Deputy Secretary-General), he said: "polystyrene is the main material of foam plastic, we use the foam fast food box, aviation cups, foam boxes, etc, which are all made of polystyrene, and its heat resistance temperature is about 90 degrees, said the Internet covered with a lid to drink hot drinks will precipitate harmful substances, I think it is a bit exaggerated.

Beverages in the production process, the need to add a variety of ingredients, coupled with stirring, cover the lid before the temperature does not exceed 90 ℃.

Polystyrene on the 6th and No. 5 Polypropylene itself is a very stable monomer." Feng Jie explained that in the production of other plastic products, may add some small plastic materials such as plasticizers, small molecules of heat is very Easy to be precipitated. "And No. 6 polystyrene and No. 5 polypropylene flow is very good, in the production of plastic additives do not need to add filler, etc.

If you need to make a different color, you need to add a variety of pigments. Pigments in the oily substance is easier to precipitate out, and the general drinks are water-based, is not in the drink of precipitation. And it can also be recycled through foam compactor.

"Let's talk about hot drinks, we drink hot drinks, the general entrance is the highest is seven or eight degrees, and the time is very short. In our industry, polypropylene and polystyrene are one of the simplest, most stable and safest materials, and if these two materials are unsafe, the other plastic products are even more unreliable.

Although the large usage of polystyrene, the polystyrene are disposable, which can easily become the white pollution, so foam cups recycling is very necessary to protect our environment. And then we can reuse it to do some other products.

Takeout rubbish has caused great white pollution

Now the pace of life and work be faster and faster, through the mobile phone application called a takeaway has become a convenient choice for satiety, China has become the largest global food and beverage sales of the country. But most people may not expect, food and beverage taken to the environment to bring great pressure - the average use of time only 1 hour takeaway lunch box, it may take hundreds of years to natural degradation. 

Has been widely used in ultra-thin plastic bags because of "plastic limit order" and disappeared, and in the "plastic limit" introduced ten years, the use of non-degradable plastic made of lunch boxes, plastic waste has become a new source of pollution.

   Every day, the "rider" of the Internet's third-party takeaway platform will send tens of millions of plastic packaging to the people's table, followed by oil-filled plastic lunch boxes were thrown into the trash, and some of them were burned together with other garbage, Part of the landfill into, there are some "slip through the net" scattered in the corner of the city.

  US group take-away official website published data show that the current US daily order volume of 12 million copies, according to each order at least consume a plastic bag and a plastic lunch box calculation, at least 24 million daily plastic products are consumed, straw, table spoon and other plastic products are not included in them.

 "China's Internet to pay the population will exceed 750 million by 2020, take-off penetration rate of about 80%, which means that 600 million people will become online take-away users." If there is no effective for the take-away plastic packaging environmental management measures, which will bring great pressure to the environment. But recycling plastic through polystyrene densifier is a good way.

Polystyrene foam plastic is widely used in our lives, but after discarded in the water or soil, it won’t rot for years, affecting the production of crops, and recycling and reuse will bring people more interest, so it is very important to take such action as polystyrene recycling.

Most "recyclable" lunch boxes has become living garbage

There are four kinds of take-out lunch boxes on the market: PS (polystyrene) material packing box, PP (polypropylene) material packing box, paper packing box and natural straw pulp or corn starch and other raw materials can be made degradable lunch box.

Reporters visited the city more than 10 businesses found that take away businessmen use all the lunch boxes by the online, wholesalers at the procurement, the main material is the PP5 (polypropylene). A Lanzhou ramen boss said that whether the lunch box is environmentally friendly is not clear, but they can guarantee that it is non-toxic and harmless. Now the market is basically using this lunch box, but for insurance purposes, we still remind customers this kind of material is one-time use, and do not heat. The boss introduced, lunch box is purchased from the wholesale market, the price is 0.5 yuan each box, and use about 50 per day.

It is understood that qualified PP5 lunch boxes above have "QS" and number, this number is equivalent to the product ID card, is also issued by the State Administration of Quality Supervision. Such products undergo a rigorous quality audit, that is, its raw materials, production environment, production processes, including the health requirements of personnel, are strict rules.

Marked with a triangular sign that this material is recyclable. But the reporter interviewed the relevant departments learned that the current take-away garbage in the recycling of plastic products is very low, most of the take-away garbage are through incineration. Why is it that the recyclable lunch box is finally treated as garbage?

China Renewable Resources Recycling Association recycled plastics branch Secretary-General Sheng introduced the material itself does have the value of polyethylene recycling, but the recovery price is not high. To the current as the mainstream lunch box used pure polypropylene (PP) transparent lunch box is one of the higher quality plastic materials, the purchase price is also two or three dollars per kilogram. Moreover, as a takeaway after use, it has been basically unable to enter the recovery chain.

So after most of the abandoned and did not enter the recycling channel re-use, and directly done the incineration. If some of the lunch boxes in the production stage in order to simplify the process and cut corners, then the incineration will cause greater pollution, so that their own degradable material is actually "non-degradable."

Urban waste has do harm to the whole human beings life

In China's 668 large and medium cities, about 2/3 are into the plight of garbage siege. The urban garbage in China, the annual output of nearly 1.5 tons, most of these cities are garbage dumps. It not only affects the urban landscape, but also pollutes the air, water and soil, which is vital to people's life. These urban waste has the following six hazards.

(1) a large amount of harmful gases, such as ammonia and sulfide, were released from the garbage dumps, which seriously polluted the atmosphere and the living environment of the city.

(2) seriously polluted water bodies. Garbage is not only a large number of pathogenic microorganism, acid and alkaline organic pollutants will be generated in the process of piling up corruption, and will be dissolved out of the heavy metal in the waste, the formation of organic substances, heavy metals and pathogenic microorganisms as one of the three sources of pollution, serious pollution of the rain leachate will cause surface water and groundwater.

(3) biological pollution. There are a lot of pathogenic microorganisms in the garbage, garbage is often the breeding grounds of mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches and mice, which is bound to endanger the health of the general public.

(4) encroachment of land. According to preliminary investigation, in 2003 the country's 668 cities in the country has been surrounded by garbage 2/3 waste landfill covers an area of 800 thousand acres.

(5) garbage explosion accidents occur continuously. With the content of organic matter in the city and improve the open distributed stacked into concentrated storage, using only simple coverage caused by producing methane anaerobic environment, flammable and explosive.

(6) more than 60% of urban domestic waste is mainly produced by the residents of the area after the organic waste generated by the two pollution, that is, the growing number of organic waste in the city is the source of increasing urban waste.

So, we should take actions to protect our environment, and about the plastic pollution, we can recycle it, such as polystyrene recycling, which not only can reuse the waste resources, and also can protect our environment. And about other pollution, we should think other good ways to deal with it.

Plastic pollution has do harm to the marine live that we should pay more attention

Plastic garbage with the river into the ocean, which has more dangerous. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) noted at the World Summit on Climate in 2017 that the excessive use of plastic pellets and disposable plastic products in cosmetics is a major source of marine waste.

Data show that every year more than 800 million tons of plastic into the ocean, a large part of the birds and fish intake, even in the submarine microbial body also found a plastic waste ingredients. Plastic pollution causes millions of seabirds each year, 100,000 marine mammals, countless fish deaths, and economic losses of $ 8 billion.

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Executive Director Eric Solheim said that now, whether it is the Indonesian beach, or the Arctic seabed, plastic pollution is everywhere, and may enter the human body through the food chain, endangering human health.

"The unique environment of the ocean will make the plastic broken into pieces, and then the formation of smaller particles of plastic, easy to absorb heavy metals and other toxic pollutants, endangering marine life and human health." Liu Jianguo said.

Plastic waste pollution, is the world's headache. China's huge population base and unique eating habits make the problem even more severe. Europe and the United States take-off multi-purpose paper tableware, and Chinese cooking methods of oil and more soup habits, making the plastic tableware to become the choice of many businesses.

Why the Chinese takeaway business did not promote the use of more environmentally friendly degradable tableware? Liu Jianguo said that the traditional plastic lunch boxes made of polypropylene, polyethylene, styrene and other materials, its strength, heat resistance, stability than the degradation of high-quality lunch boxes, and low cost, so favored by the business.

Liu Jianguo introduced, in fact, some of the market can be degraded lunch boxes also contain a high proportion of non-degradable plastic components, the cost is higher than the traditional plastic lunch boxes, but the use of performance and environmental friendliness is no advantage, neither recovery through polystyrene densifier, broken in the environment into the film, but more difficult to deal with. "With the progress of technology, the performance of the fully degradable lunch box has been improved and the cost has been reduced, so that more businesses will take the initiative to use it," he said.