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.