Will ordering takeout pollute the environment? An environmental protection organization studied and analyzed 100 take-away orders and found that each take-away order consumed an average of 3.27 disposable plastic lunch boxes/cups. This means that the Internet ordering platform in China uses more than 60 million plastic lunch boxes every day. It is reported that the plastic bags used in the food delivery platform can cover 420,000 square meters every day, and the West Lake can be covered in about 15 days.
The visual effect is really shocking. But vision is not the same as fact, and it may just be the eyeball. Just like the most suitable unit to measure plastic pollution is weight, not area. If calculated by weight, in fact, the disposable take-away lunch box produced by take-away only accounts for 0.95% of all household plastic products, which is far from being the main pollution source. Compared with the chemical pollution caused by other plastic products, this is nothing at all.
What is the main pollution caused by take-away packaging? White pollution.
The so-called white pollution is an image title for people to pollute the environment by plastic waste. It refers to the phenomenon that all kinds of living plastic products made of polystyrene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride and other polymer compounds are discarded as solid waste after use, which is difficult to degrade and causes serious pollution to the urban environment.
The consumption and waste of urban plastic waste is amazing. At & ldquo white trash. Among them, the most obvious pollution, the most headache and the strongest reaction from the masses are the waste plastic packaging bags and disposable plastic fast tableware all over the streets of cities. According to the statistics of relevant departments, taking disposable plastic foamed fast food as an example, China's annual consumption reaches 400 million to 700 million servings, including 20 million to 40 million servings in Tianjin.
As a buyer, I think we can eat less take-away, one is for our own health, and the other is pollution: chopsticks+food packaging boxes+bags+(maybe spoons) are disposable garbage. Even if chopsticks come from fast-growing forests, the value of fast-growing forests to the whole ecosystem is still low. Not so worth promoting. Why can waste be reduced? Plastic bag lunch boxes are absolutely polluted, even if they are degradable, they have environmental protection capacity.
As a seller, I think these take-away platforms can provide some choices, such as whether to bring your own chopsticks, whether the bags can be recycled (for take-away) and so on.
Perhaps the current problem is not particularly serious, but shouldn't this concept of environmental awareness be implanted from the beginning?
Therefore, I still appeal to face up to this problem.