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.
For the first time in 2015, the 28-nation European Union adopted a law to reduce the use of thin plastic bags in a bid to reduce environmental pollution, euronet reported, citing Europa news agency. Recently, the European parliament again proposed to expand the scope of "plastic limit", on the comprehensive ban on the use of plastic tableware discussion. The bill is expected to be passed by the end of may.
Hainan provincial party committee office, the provincial government office jointly issued the hainan province comprehensive ban on production, sale and use of one-time implementation scheme of non-biodegradable plastic products "(hereinafter referred to as the" scheme "), "the plan", by the end of 2025, the province a total ban on the production, sale and use in the hainan province banning the use of disposable production list of non-biodegradable plastic products (try out) "(hereinafter referred to as the" directory ") of the plastic products.
