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.
China News Service, June 21, 2018 According to a report by "Central News Agency". From July 1, 2018, Seattle, the United States will completely ban the catering industry from providing plastic straws and plastic knives and forks, and encourage the use of reusable tableware or compostable plastic products.
In People's Daily life, drink plastic cups, plastic straws, straw packaging bags, plastic tray, cup packaging straight drink lid and other plastic garbage everywhere Consumption of plastic straws is staggering worldwide. In the United States, nearly half a billion plastic straws are thrown away every day, a total of two and a half times around the world Relevant departments and industry associations should increase the publicity of "plastic limit order" to guide enterprises and consumers to reduce the production and consumption of disposable plastic products The refractory plastic waste has become a recognized problem in the world.
