"Sold 700 million cups a year, can circle the earth three times", remember this advertisement slogan of Xiang Peopeo? The milk tea industry likes to use the number of cups sold to show its popularity. In the past few years, the tea drink industry has boomed, giving birth to a large number of net red brands such as Xi tea, Nexue's tea, a little bit, tea color, honey snow ice city, and so on, and the phenomenon of queuing up for several hours just to have a cup of milk tea is constantly staged all over the country.
It is understood that the highest valuation of the tea, the highest single store sold 1 million cups a year, while the low price of the famous honey snow ice city a year is to sell 1.3 billion cups. So many milk tea stores across the country, how many cups a year to sell? How many straws? Probably no one has done the math.
Data show that in 2019, China consumed about 46 billion roots, the per capita use of more than 30, in addition to tea drink companies, and KFC, McDonald's, and a variety of food and beverage stores, roadside stalls will provide straws. Unconsciously, we use plastic straws every day, becoming a common daily necessity.
Plastic straws are used so frequently, but the use of time is very short, usually only a few minutes, it is discarded, and become garbage. However, these discarded plastic straws are thrown out of the non-recyclable range and end up with the fate of landfills, but with lasting pollution, it is understood that it may take up to 500 years to degrade.
Plastic straws, plastic bags and other plastic products, bringing white pollution, the harm can not be small. Due to the difficulty of degradation, resulting in soil deterioration, air pollution and so on, the human living environment has caused a great negative impact. Therefore, the state decisive action, in the plastic restriction order, and then introduced the "ban on pipe". The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MOE) issued a notice to ban the use of non-degradable disposable plastic straws in the catering industry nationwide by the end of 2020. That is, from January 1, 2021 onwards, all kinds of catering enterprises to use disposable plastic straws is illegal.
Plastic straws are not allowed to use, so how to drink milk tea? In fact, there are already alternatives, that is, biodegradable or recyclable straws, there are two kinds of paper straws and PLA straws, but compared to plastic straws, the cost has doubled three times and five times. For catering companies, that puts the cost up significantly, which is inevitably passed on to the consumer.
We see June 30, 2020, McDonald's on the country's nearly 1,000 stores to take the lead in discontinuing the use of plastic straws, however, in the purchase of the order, there will still be a prompt whether you need a straw, but this straw is required to pay. For Chinese people, who are careful with their money, it is naturally unacceptable to start charging for the usually free straws, so most of them are reluctant to pay for them. However, the business was smart enough to replace the lid with one that comes with a drinking spout, which also makes it easier to drink.
As a substitute, paper straws are very good, easy to degrade, basically not much pollution, but also can be recycled. It is understood that in Europe, paper straw alternative accounted for 50%, they have been accustomed to use this. But domestic and foreign countries are not the same, the domestic like to drink hot drinks, but few foreign countries, and paper straws encountered hot drinks, naturally, it is easy to soften, drink a taste of paper, not good at all.
As a superpower with a population of 1.4 billion, China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of plastics, the cumulative production of 81.84 million tons of plastic products in 2019, such production and consumption, if not controlled, the annual production of plastic waste, the harm to the environment is too great. Therefore, the majority of people expressed support for the "ban".
In fact, not only the "ban", from January 1, 2021 onwards, the country will ban the production and sale of ultra-thin plastic shopping bags with a thickness of less than 0.025 millimeters, thickness of less than 0.01 millimeters of agricultural film, disposable plastic swabs, disposable styrofoam lunchboxes and so on, wherever related to plastic products are basically banned. products are basically banned.
If fully implemented, the year will reduce tens of millions of plastic garbage, undoubtedly a lot of pressure on the environment, to protect the environment to contribute. Of course, for the plastic products business, this is both a crisis and an opportunity, the full ban, then they will not be able to produce, they must be transformed, seize the opportunity to produce biodegradable products.
For each of us, we should develop the habit of not using plastic products as much as possible, to go to the supermarket to buy their own bags, drink milk tea without a straw, that slowly can reduce the use of plastic products, to protect the environment to do a contribution.
Finally, the straw charges, you are willing to buy?