On July 31, a video on the Internet made plastic pollution a focus. The video showed that in the Qinghai Chaka Salt Lake Scenic Spot, the "Mirror of the Sky", an online celebrity attraction in Qinghai, the plank road by the lake was crowded with people who came to visit. Tourists, and tourists' feet are scattered with a lot of plastic waste of different colors. At the scene, the staff of the scenic spot kept picking up garbage, and at the same time playing the broadcast of "Please throw garbage into the trash can". According to the staff of Chaka Salt Lake, during the peak tourist season, cleaning staff can clean up 12 tons of garbage from the scenic spot a day, most of which are plastic garbage thrown by tourists at will.
Although plastic products can provide various conveniences for people's lives, the harm caused by randomly discarded plastics to the environment is also obvious. In order to control the "white pollution" caused by plastics, various countries have issued corresponding laws and regulations, and developed alternatives to plastics to reduce the negative impact of plastics. As early as ten years ago, my country issued a "plastic restriction order" to restrict the use of disposable plastic shopping bags.
Although my country's "plastic restriction order" has been issued for ten years, the "plastic restriction order" has had little effect. In this regard, the relevant person from the Ministry of Commerce of my country introduced that the Ministry of Commerce will jointly issue the guiding opinions on accelerating the transformation and development of my country's packaging industry in conjunction with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and clearly implement packaging simplification, reduction, reuse and refined packaging design technology; The industry standard for business green packaging technology and management specifications will be released in the near future. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment also stated that it will focus on rectifying waste plastic processing and utilization distribution centers, and increase environmental supervision in the process of plastic recycling.
The United Nations has issued a report saying that "ban" is one of the ways to effectively alleviate plastic pollution. In addition to China, many countries have also issued corresponding "plastic ban orders" to restrict or even prohibit the use of single-use plastics in the form of laws.
In the United Kingdom, at a conference called "Building a Cleaner and Greener Britain" environmental protection plan, the British Prime Minister announced the UK's plastic ban plan, which includes the popularization of paid use of plastic products in the UK, and the government's increased funding. Technological innovation and institutional reform of plastic products. The government will take restrictive action at every stage of plastic production and consumption, introduce plastic-free aisles in supermarkets, and increase excise taxes on single-use plastic items such as takeaway boxes.
Chile is one of the leaders in Latin America's "plastic ban". As early as four years ago, the southern Patagonia region of Chile began to ban the use of plastic bags, and last year, the application of the ban was extended to coastal areas. Recently, Chile's Constitutional Court expressed its support for the "plastic ban" in the commercial field in a ruling, making Chile the first country in South America to "ban plastic".
The "plastic ban" issued by Kenya is known as "the world's strictest plastic ban", because the production, sale or use of plastic bags in Kenya will face 1 to 4 years in prison or a maximum of 4 million shillings (about 4 million shillings). RMB 260,000), citizens with plastic bags may be arrested by the police. The Kenyan government says an estimated 300 million plastic bags are used in Kenya every year, many of which are discarded in an environmentally unfriendly way and take centuries to degrade. Kenya's environment minister said the ban was an opportunity to push businesses to diversify into more environmentally friendly reusable bags, which could create thousands of jobs.
Although countries around the world have issued "plastic ban orders", relevant experts said that "plastic ban orders" can play a certain role in alleviating plastic pollution, but the ban cannot solve the problem of white pollution from the source. Only by using degradable and non-polluting environmentally friendly materials can we stop plastic pollution.
