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."