The ministry of environmental protection recently launched a campaign to reduce the use of plastic bags. The campaign was first held in battambang province and then continued in siem reap and sihanouk provinces. According to state secretary of the ministry of environmental protection (mep), plastic bags are widely used as packaging items and are also considered to have a serious impact on the environment. The government has issued a new law to control the use of plastic bags and impose extra fees on consumers to limit white pollution through price leverage. This is also a common practice in developed countries, where plastic bags are charged separately and reusable shopping bags are provided.
Ten years have passed since its promulgation, and new economic phenomena and social patterns have changed constantly. It is expected that the plastic restriction order faces new challenges. So, can used meal box, express package bag be recycled? The reporter contacted several recycling stations and got a negative answer. "Plastic is not accepted, plastic is not easy to sell. "I don't know why, but nobody wants it."
Since march, starbucks has been testing new recycled drink cups in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, vancouver and London -- still looking like regular starbucks paper cups, but with a layer of recycled plastic inside to keep the drinks from touching the cups. Consumers throw the new paper cups into recycling bins and professional commercial recycling companies can recycle them.
After China introduced the "ban on waste", many countries and regions began to look for new ways for waste after the major plastic waste exporters, such as Europe and the United States, lost the world's largest solid waste market. Others use the old methods. Looking for waste markets in other developing countries has shifted the burden of pollution to countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Poland. Investment enterprises represented by China, after the sudden change in policy, quickly find businessmen to continue to copy the domestic model to southeast Asia. According to the international bureau of recycling, Malay waste plastic reached 450,000 in 2017, 50% more than in 2016. Vietnam increased 62 percent year-on-year to 500, 000, Thailand 117 percent and Indonesia 65 percent. After the rapid formation of southeast Asian market, carrying the world's millions of waste plastic recycling.
In the past few months, you've probably seen restaurant chains stop serving plastic straws and cut down on disposable cutlery -- eco-friendly carbon reduction has become a focus of business for brands such as starbucks and McDonald's, which have announced targets to reduce their carbon emissions over the last five years.
It seems that we take it for granted to pass by a fast food restaurant after work and buy a coke to sweeen our busy life. You won't even notice the little straw you're holding in your mouth. However, the degradation of plastic straws takes hundreds or even hundreds of years, which will bring great burden to the natural environment. Recently, some restaurants in Beijing, Hong Kong and other places began to try not to offer straws to customers, guiding customers to start small and reduce the use of disposable plastic products.
