Because it's not a necessity, it's a luxury.

The environmental cost of plastic straws is too high. According to statistics, the U.S. discards about 500 million plastic straws every day and dumps up to 1,200 tons of plastic into the ocean each year, threatening marine ecology. A British waste disposal company has put plastic straws on the list of hard-to-recycle items, calling them the ultimate human waste and suggesting a tax on them. After all, a plastic straw is used for an average of only about 20 minutes and then discarded.

Action to ban plastic straws

The use of non-degradable plastic bags is banned in shopping malls, supermarkets, pharmacies and bookstores in the built-up areas of municipalities directly under the central government, provincial capitals, and cities with single-listed cities, as well as in food and beverage packaged takeout services and various exhibition activities. This has been the takeaway platform to take action.

Meituan Takeout has launched the Green Mountain Program, working with 110 packaging companies to explore takeout packaging solutions, launching a green packaging recommendation list, and supporting packaging innovation incubation. The first batch of Green Packaging Recommendation List *** includes 46 types of degradable plastic takeaway packaging products from 31 companies, and 41 types of paper-based takeaway packaging products from 30 companies. In addition, the Green Mountain Program has piloted more than 20 million fully biodegradable bags and 1 million paper lunch boxes nationwide.

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