Recently, the rapid development of the takeaway industry, and with it, the environmental pollution problems caused by disposable tableware. Takeaway garbage, has become a new source of environmental pollution. A few days ago, a public welfare organization sued three takeaway platforms, including HungryMo, to the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate Court for causing waste of resources and environmental pollution, which aroused widespread concern in the society.

The three takeout platforms were sued for damaging the environment

The plaintiff, Chongqing Green Volunteer Federation, claimed that the three defendants' takeout ordering platforms were flawed in their business model, and that they did not provide users with the option of whether or not to use disposable tableware, which resulted in the system delivering disposable tableware by default to the users when they ordered food directly, resulting in a huge waste of resources and great ecological damage.

Zhou Jinfeng, a consultant for the plaintiffs' public welfare organization, said, "All three of our platforms are more than 10 million orders a day, so it causes chopsticks garbage packaging plastic boxes is a massive amount of our human beings to the environment to the ecology has been completely unable to withstand such a speed of development."

The plaintiff's side of the lawsuit request is, in its platform to provide ordering page home page prominently set whether the paid use of disposable tableware, whether the use of plastic bags option, and the disposable chopsticks, plastic bags, etc. explicitly marked price, charge; in addition, the request to order the defendant on the ecological environment has been caused by the damage to be repaired or to bear the cost of repair. However, the three takeaway platforms argued that there are thousands of restaurants providing takeaway services, and it is difficult for the takeaway platforms to constrain them in place as to whether they use environmentally friendly lunch boxes for delivery.

The head of the plaintiff's public welfare organization, Anne, said: "Although these three takeaway platforms are not the producers of disposable tableware, they provide consumers with such a platform, which makes this disposable tableware caused by this environmental pollution ah, as well as the waste of resources are exponentially increased, so it has an unshirkable responsibility. "

While the takeaway platform does not directly generate lunch boxes and discard them, it is the biggest push that prompts the catering business to prosper in the takeaway business. The reporter noted that, in response to the plaintiff's accusation that the takeaway ordering platform did not provide users with the option of whether to use disposable tableware, the three platforms have finally responded, one after another, in the order confirmation page to add the "no tableware" note option, and launched a part of the measures to encourage businesses to use environmentally friendly tableware. The three platforms have finally responded by adding a "no tableware required" option to the order confirmation page and introducing some measures to encourage businesses to use environmentally friendly tableware.