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.