With hundreds of billions of new markets and the 51st Earth Day, can pulp molding take up the important task of green circulation?

Today is the 51st Earth Day, wepulp moldingWhat can people do for the earth?

As a fully degradable environment-friendly material, the public, including professionals in the packaging industry, still have only an egg holder for pulp molding. What can pulp molding do, how friendly it is to the environment, and how friendly it is to the environment. More people should participate in the publicity work of popularizing knowledge in this area, which is good news for the industry and the earth.

According to Ai Media Consulting, the "Special Study on Merchants in China's Food and Beverage Takeaway Market during the 2020 Epidemic" was released.

The report predicts that the outbreak has forced the traditional industry to accelerate the transformation of the line, the takeaway market products and formats will be more diverse. Under the two-way effect of the continuous upgrading of supply-side quality services in the takeaway market and the continuous strengthening of demand-side takeaway consumption habits, the takeaway market is expected to continue to expand, and the market size is expected to exceed 650 billion yuan in 2020.

According to the average price of 25 yuan for takeout, at least two lunch boxes, a beverage cup and a bag should be used. This 650 billion take-out order will consume 52 billion lunch boxes, 26 billion beverage cups and 25 billion bags. According to the 30cm length of each lunch box, it can be filled with the Great Wall, and the plastic bags used every day can be filled with dozens of football fields. If plastic products cannot be effectively recycled, the harm to the environment can last for hundreds of years, and it is more likely to be a disaster for marine life.

In order to solve these problems, this year, countries around the world have issued a variety of regulations and policies to ban and limit plastics, and we have also issued relevant policies. Regulations have been made, the market is also in, take-out needs to have containers for packaging, limiting disposable plastic products, substitutes can keep up with the decision of the policy can be implemented and the effect of implementation.

In order to promote the implementation of the "new version of the plastic restriction order" and "opinions on further strengthening the control of plastic pollution", according to the clear prohibition direction and work objectives of the "opinions", on April 10, the national development and Reform Commission, together with relevant departments, organized and drafted the catalogue of plastic products prohibited from production, sale and use (Draft for comments) to solicit opinions from the public. * The public consultation period is from April 10, 2020 to April 19, 2020.

Prohibit the production and sale of oxygen-degradable plastic products

Studies have shown that oxygen-degradable plastics have the following characteristics:

Microplastic pollution in the environment due to inadequate biodegradation;

② can not compost; ③ has a negative impact on the recycling of traditional plastics;

No proven environmental benefit.

Accordingly, it is recommended that the oxygen-degradable plastic products be included in the "prohibited production and sale of plastic products".

Prohibit the production and sale of PVC plastic products in related industries and fields

Attention should be paid to plastics that endanger human health, among which PVC and other materials have the highest environmental health risk. The "Opinions" require plastic product manufacturers not to illegally add chemical additives that are harmful to the human body and the environment. PVC plastic products have many types of additives and high content, and they are widely used in various daily necessities.

It is suggested that the catalogue should follow the "opinions" to list some PVC plastic products that endanger the health of sensitive people (especially children, mothers and infants) into "plastic products prohibited from production and sale", such as baby bottles and pacifiers in maternal and infant products, book covers and erasers in student products, etc.

Optimized product design should be encouraged for plastic products that are easily lost to the environment

The study found that some plastic products with large consumption and small volume are easily lost to the environment, such as bottle caps and straws on beverage bottles, which rank among the top ten types of beach garbage in the world all year round. By optimizing product design, we can find ways to create re-sale conditions and effectively improve its recovery rate. For example, the one-piece design that makes the bottle cap always attached to the beverage bottle prevents small-volume plastic bottle caps from entering the environment.

At present, there are beverage manufacturers using this product design, such as Coca-Cola, EVIAN, Pepsi, AQUAFINA and so on. Gradually improve the design of plastic products that are conducive to recycling, adopt catalog management for products that are not conducive to recycling, prohibit their production, sales, guidance, and promote enterprises to shift to product design methods that are conducive to recycling.

Prohibit production and sale

Plastic products not marked as required

For some disposable plastic products that have a greater environmental impact and currently have no alternative solutions, such as cigarette butts, sanitary napkins, sanitary napkins, wet wipes, etc., consumers should be informed of the following information in an irrevocable way:

① Appropriate waste management plan for the product or waste disposal methods to be avoided for the product;

Clearly state the fact that there is plastic in the product, and the resulting littering or other inappropriate waste disposal methods, the negative impact on the environment. In order to guide the plastic consumption behavior, to avoid the wrong way of disposal of consumers.

It is necessary to gradually improve the catalogue of plastic products that need to be marked accordingly, and prohibit the production and sale of plastic products that are not marked as required.

The expression "prohibition, restriction of use"

was revised to "gradually prohibit the use"

In order to reflect the principle of gradually banning the use of specific types of plastic products by region and time limit, and for a clearer policy signal of plastic ban and waste reduction, it is proposed to amend the expression "plastic products that are 2. prohibited or restricted" to "plastic products that are 2. gradually banned". And this policy implementation is more operational.

Gradually ban the use of "disposable express plastic (emphasis on recycling) packaging",

The catalogue prohibits the e-commerce industry from using non-degradable plastic bags, disposable plastic woven bags and plastic tapes. In addition, the promotion of circular packaging in the express e-commerce industry is not ideal. We are very worried about replacing these non-degradable express packaging. It will be the so-called biodegradable plastic products.

However, the recycling and separation of degradable plastics and traditional plastics are also a problem. Biodegradable plastic products are mostly disposable and difficult to reuse. Whether they have environmental, economic and social benefits in the express delivery industry requires further consideration.

In this context, it is recommended that "non-degradable plastic packaging bags" and "non-degradable disposable plastic woven bags" be revised to "disposable plastic packaging bags" and "disposable plastic woven bags" respectively, and the recycling method is advocated. Priority is given to the development of reusable express packaging.

Since the catalog does not mention the prohibition of the use of non-degradable plastic products, what are the alternative solutions or products?

Degradable plastic products, such as PLA, pulp molding products, paper bags and other fully biodegradable products can completely replace the above demand? The answer to this question determines whether these policies and regulations can be implemented as scheduled.

Below on the pulp molded products alternative possibilities to do some discussion. Pulp molding products do cold dishes, cold food has been more mature, but the take-out market is more hot food, which puts forward higher requirements for pulp molding. Now there are a number of group companies in the study of hot food, as well as heated food pulp molded products, I believe that in the near future, full paper take-out packaging will appear in front of your eyes.

In January this year, Starbucks Global announced its sustainability vision for the next few decades, aiming to reduce carbon emissions, water use and waste by 50% by 2030. Vigorously promote the use of paper and pulp molded products and star good food.™Series of plant dietary products.

It is understood that Star Good Food™The lunch box packaging of the series of dietary products is all made of renewable plant fiber, and the pulp molded products obtained the industrial and household composting authority certification of the international biodegradable professional standard OK Compost. The portable belt on the lunch box is made of recycled milk boxes and can be used as a placemat after opening.

Starbucks also launched a series of creative environmental protection around. For example, the coffee grounds recovered from Starbucks stores have been recycled into environmentally friendly renewable materials (the content of coffee grounds exceeds 30%), which have been made into accompanying cups, notebooks and other surrounding areas this season. According to Starbucks, the furniture of tables and chairs in stores may also be made of "coffee grounds" in the future ~

Starbucks also introduced the full pulp molded hot coffee, hot food full paper and pulp molded packaging products.

Of course, our domestic entrepreneurs are also working hard. A few days ago, Xiao Bian saw pulp molded products for soup and Chinese catering in the circle of friends of Qiaowang Pan Dong in Guangxi.

Protect the earth, start from me, promote environmental protection, promote pulp molding, let more people understand, use, recommend pulp molding, let's shout together.

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