The purpose of the "Plastic Restriction Order" is to limit and reduce the use of plastic bags and curb "white pollution".
Plastic shopping bags are consumables in daily life, and China consumes a large number of plastic shopping bags every year. Plastic shopping bags provide convenience for consumers at the same time, due to excessive use and recycling treatment is not in place and other reasons, but also caused a serious waste of energy resources and environmental pollution. In particular, ultra-thin plastic shopping bags are easy to break, most of which are discarded, becoming the main source of "white pollution". More and more countries and regions have restricted the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags. In order to implement the scientific concept of development, the construction of resource-saving and environmentally friendly society, from the source to take strong measures to urge enterprises to produce durable, easy to recycle plastic shopping bags, guide, encourage the masses to use plastic shopping bags, promote the comprehensive utilization of resources, protect the ecological environment, and further promote energy conservation and emission reduction, China in 2008 issued a restriction on the use of plastic bags of the notice, which is the public This notice is known as the "Plastic Restriction Order".
December 31, 2007, the relevant state departments formally issued a notice from June 1, 2008, nationwide ban on the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags with a thickness of less than 0.025 mm. For the 0.025 millimeters of the specific indicators required, experts said that more than 80% of the current market thickness of plastic shopping bags can not meet the requirements of the general farmers market to provide the thickness of the plastic shopping bags in the 0.005 millimeters or so, the thickness of plastic shopping bags provided by large supermarkets and shopping malls are generally between 0.015 millimeters to 0.020 millimeters.
February 5, 2008, the National Standards Commission issued the first national standard for plastic shopping bags draft for comment, began to the community to solicit a wide range of views, the deadline for March 4th. The national standard for plastic shopping bags was completed by the NSC and the China Light Industry Federation. It stipulates that the thickness of plastic shopping bags must be ≥ 0.025 millimeters. In terms of color, plastic shopping bags for direct contact with food should be the original color. In terms of appearance, bubbles, perforations and other defects are not allowed. In terms of food safety, direct contact with food plastic shopping bags must be labeled "food". Safety, plastic bags must have safety instructions and warnings, such as "to avoid and prevent choking and other hazards, please keep away from babies and young children" and so on. In terms of environmental protection, plastic bags must be labeled "in order to protect the environment and conserve resources, please use multiple times" text. At the same time, the plastic bag should be clearly marked manufacturer's name, and clearly marked nominal weight, the unit is kg.
Plastic content
A ban on the production, sale and use of ultra-thin plastic shopping bags
From June 1, 2008 onwards, a nationwide ban on the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags with a thickness of less than 0.025 mm (hereinafter referred to as ultra-thin plastic shopping bags). Development and Reform Commission to urgently revise the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guide Catalog", the ultra-thin plastic shopping bags included in the elimination of product catalogs. AQSIQ to speed up the revision of national standards for plastic shopping bags, the development of eye-catching qualified plastic shopping bag product logo, research and promotion of rapid and simple testing methods for plastic shopping bags, supervise enterprises in strict accordance with national standards to organize production to ensure the quality of plastic shopping bags.
Two, the implementation of plastic shopping bags paid system
Supermarkets, shopping malls, markets and other commodity retail places are the most concentrated use of plastic shopping bags, and most of the current free plastic shopping bags. In order to guide the masses to rational use, economic use of plastic shopping bags, since June 1, 2008, in all supermarkets, shopping malls, markets and other commodity retail places to implement plastic shopping bags paid system, are not free to provide plastic shopping bags. Commodity retail establishments must be on the plastic shopping bags marked price, and in the price of goods outside the price of plastic shopping bags charged, shall not be provided free of charge or will be implied in the price of plastic shopping bags within the total price of goods charged in combination. The Ministry of Commerce in conjunction with the Development and Reform Commission to develop the specific management of the paid use of plastic shopping bags in retail establishments, and effectively implement the implementation, and gradually form a paid use of plastic shopping bags in the market environment.
Three, to strengthen the limited production and sale of plastic shopping bags to limit the supervision and inspection
Quality inspection departments to establish a plastic shopping bag manufacturer product quality supervision mechanism. Violations of the continued production of ultra-thin plastic shopping bags, or not in accordance with the provisions of the paste (print) qualified plastic shopping bags product logo, as well as the existence of other violations, in accordance with the "Chinese People's *** and National Product Quality Law" and other laws and regulations, accordingly ordered to stop production, confiscation of illegal production of products, confiscate the illegal income, fines and other penalties. To improve the quality of regulatory measures, increase law enforcement, strict implementation of the exposure, recall, rectification, punishment and other systems.
Industry and commerce departments to strengthen the supermarkets, shopping malls, markets and other retail sales of goods, the use of plastic shopping bags supervision and inspection, the violation of the continued sale, use of ultra-thin plastic shopping bags and other behaviors, in accordance with the "People's Republic of China *** and the National Product Quality Law" and other laws and regulations to be investigated and dealt with. Commodity retail establishments to strengthen the sales and use of plastic shopping bags in the market management, supervise the sale of merchants, the use of qualified plastic shopping bags. Plastic shopping bag sales enterprises to establish a purchase and sale account system to prevent unqualified plastic shopping bags into the market.
Passenger trains, passenger ships, buses, airplanes, stations, airports and tourist attractions shall not be provided to travelers, tourists, ultra-thin plastic shopping bags (bags), railways, transportation, civil aviation, tourism and other competent departments to effectively fulfill their supervisory and inspection duties.
Four, improve the recycling level of waste plastics
Sanitation departments to speed up the implementation of separate collection and separate treatment of domestic waste, and effectively reduce the number of waste plastics being mixed with garbage incineration or landfill. Waste materials recycling departments should strengthen the recycling of waste plastics management, guidance, support materials recycling enterprises to establish a sound recycling network, make full use of price leverage and provide quality services and other measures to promote the recycling of waste plastics, and vigorously promote the large-scale sorting and grading of the use of plastic resources to give full play to the utility.
Environmental protection departments should increase the environmental supervision of the recycling process of waste plastics, develop environmental access conditions, pollution control standards and technical specifications and supervise the implementation of the establishment of waste plastics from the recycling, transportation, storage and recycling of the whole process of environmental management system.
Science and technology departments to increase support for the treatment and disposal of waste plastics technology research and development efforts to develop and promote the use of waste plastics to improve the value-added technologies and products, and improve the level of waste plastics resource utilization.
Financial and tax departments should expeditiously study and formulate tax policies to curb the pollution of waste plastics, and use tax leverage to regulate the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags, to support and encourage the development of the comprehensive utilization of waste plastics industry.
Fifth, vigorously create a good atmosphere to limit the production and sale of plastic shopping bags
In conjunction with the Environment Day, Energy Conservation Awareness Week and other activities, make full use of radio and television, newspapers and magazines, the Internet and other media, to take the masses of people enjoyable and easy to understand, focusing on selecting the community, villages and towns, schools, supermarkets, shopping malls, markets, and stations, airports, tourist attractions, etc., to widely publicize the "white pollution", and to make it more effective and efficient. Widely publicize the harm of "white pollution", publicize the importance of limiting the production and sale of plastic shopping bags, so that the general public and the production and sales enterprises to firmly establish the conservation of resources and protection of the environment awareness, consciously and reasonably use plastic shopping bags, according to the law of the production and sale of qualified plastic shopping bags.
Promote heavy carry cloth bags, heavy vegetable baskets, reuse durable shopping bags, reduce the use of plastic bags, guide enterprises to simplify commodity packaging, and actively choose green, environmentally friendly bags, encouraging enterprises and social forces to provide the masses with free cloth bags and other reusable shopping bags, *** with the creation of a good atmosphere for the restrained use of plastic shopping bags.
Six, strengthen the local people's government and the State Council departments concerned
Local people's governments at all levels are responsible for the region to limit the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags, we should attach great importance to strengthen the leadership, carefully deployed, and carefully organized the various functional departments to develop specific measures and implement them. Development and reform, business, quality inspection, industry and commerce and other departments to their respective duties and responsibilities, collaborate and cooperate closely to ensure that the production and sale of plastic shopping bags in the implementation of the measures in place. To strengthen administrative supervision and law enforcement supervision and inspection, and effectively implement the law enforcement accountability system to strengthen the responsibility of local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments of the State Council. For administrative inaction, poor law enforcement, in accordance with the "People's Republic of China **** and the State Administrative Licensing Law", "People's Republic of China **** and the State Administrative Punishment Law" to pursue the relevant competent authorities and law enforcement agencies, the main person in charge of the responsibility and the relevant responsible person.
Plastic limitations on the implementation of
June 1, 2008 is the "plastic limitations on the implementation of the first day, from that day onwards, all supermarkets, shopping malls, markets and other commodities retail establishments will not be free of charge to provide plastic shopping bags, and shall not be sold does not meet the national standard for plastic shopping bags. Beijing's major supermarkets, shopping malls, markets have been lit up with plastic shopping bag charges, the lowest price of 0.1 yuan, up to 1.5 yuan.
Some large supermarkets in China have begun to systematically implement environmentally friendly bags several months ago. In Guangzhou, China Resources Vanguard Wuyang Xincheng store, from last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, such as the purchase of a certain price of goods that are given a series of environmental protection promotional activities such as the gift of beautiful environmental protection bag. However, some small commodity stores, vegetable markets and so on may become the "plastic limit" of the "blind spot".
Most of the region's industrial and commercial and pricing departments in order to cooperate with the "plastic limit", have said that they want to unqualified plastic bag manufacturers and businesses to carry out a comprehensive clean-up, but did not require a unified pricing, based on their own costs and expenses by the merchants of their own independent pricing. Some experts accordingly believe that the previous consumers to use the cost of plastic bags is actually included in the goods, and the arrival of the "plastic limit order" prompted merchants to restore the original price of goods, so that the price of plastic bags previously implied in the goods "surfaced", but it was The "secret charge" has been changed to "open charge".
It is true that the effect of the "plastic limit" needs a process, and there are many difficulties in law enforcement. But to really let the "plastic limit order" to implement, the relevant government departments must take rigid regulatory measures. First, we must strictly check the material of shopping bags, must use environmentally friendly, recyclable materials; Second, for the current conditions due to the reality can not be completely environmentally friendly material substitution of the region, under the premise of minimizing the use of plastic bags, strict pricing standards, regularly or irregularly on a variety of business institutions to carry out random inspections to improve the relevant incentives and penalties mechanism, do not make the "Plastic Restriction" order! "
Limit the use of plastic bags to minimize the use of prerequisites.
The impact of the plastic limit
Manufacturers: the survival of the fittest shuffle speed up
Some packaging supplies companies originally did both ultra-thin plastic bags, but also thick plastic bags. Some companies independently developed new technology into production, the thickness of the new plastic bags in line with the standard, not only more environmentally friendly, the cost is also greatly saved. In the face of plastic restrictions, such enterprises to give up the former production line, fully committed to the production of new products.
Of course, not many companies can turn around gracefully. For example, the Shanghai plastic packaging industry survey results show that the annual output of Shanghai plastic vest bags about 50,000 tons, distributed in large and small more than 1,500 plastic enterprises, which through the production of food-grade plastic bags QS certification of only more than 10 companies, less than 10 large-scale plastic bag manufacturers. Many small factories use back to the production of materials, the production environment is poor, some workshops hanging between the waste recycling station, two or three blow molding machine can be processed, monthly production and sales of about 30 tons.
Plastic bags or plastic products in the lowest level of products, industry profit margins of less than 5%, much lower than other industrial packaging products. General family workshop production of ultra-thin plastic bags, each ton of raw materials to produce 1 million plastic bags, wholesale profits spread to each bag is only 0.003 yuan or so.
An expert believes that the plastic order, cheap quality of ultra-thin plastic bags to lose sales, the industry many small businesses, small workshops will face reshuffling. Large plastic packaging enterprises, ultra-thin plastic bags less products, the transition is easy, so most said the impact is not great. The introduction of the new regulations, the market for biodegradable plastic bags, environmentally friendly thick plastic bags, non-woven bags and other products become better sales, stimulate enterprises to adjust the product mix, speed up technology research and development, the overall profitability of the plastics industry will also significantly improve.
But there are also some large enterprises expressed concern, do not know how market behavior will change after the implementation of the policy. Initially the policy will have a strong impact on the market, but will the policy be drilled down after a few months? Can the policy effect be sustained all the time? Such as the new standards for plastic shopping bags to achieve reuse more than 7 times, but the strength is difficult to detect, the thickness of the plastic bags up to standard may be a large number of use of back material, filler material, but not enough strength, it is easy to break.
Merchants: cash register slowdown need to find countermeasures
Plastic bags from free to charge, as the main place of use of plastic bags - supermarkets, hypermarkets, in the service has been a quiet follow-up action.
Checkout process quietly change. The implementation of the "plastic limit", hypermarkets cashier channel than in the past to increase a procedure - asking customers whether they intend to spend money to buy plastic vest bags, which will inevitably affect the speed of the cash register, so how do hypermarkets solve it? It is understood that Wal-Mart as early as March this year opened up a "plastic bag-free fast channel", where customers with their own shopping bags can quickly check out in this channel, and the need to buy plastic bags of customers in other checkout, customer triage to speed up the flow of speed.
The first day of implementation of the plastic limit coincides with the "June 1" Children's Day, will be the peak of sales, some merchants in the opening of all the cashier on the basis of the cashier will also be in some of the cashier equipped with two staff members, a specialized brush bar code, money, another to help customers put things into the shopping bag.
At the same time, the supermarket outlets suggested that consumers in the checkout, on the prior to bring their own shopping bags open ready, as a way to speed up the cash register.
Provide shopping basket rental service. In order to protect the environment to the end, some supermarkets have also launched a "rental shopping basket" service. According to Wal-Mart Shanghai District responsible person introduced, if customers to the supermarket shopping forgot to bring the bag, and do not intend to spend money to buy plastic bags, supermarkets can provide rental shopping basket service, consumers only need to pay a deposit to rent a plastic mesh shopping baskets, about 40 centimeters deep, if the shopping basket will be returned within a week, with the rental of a small ticket can be taken back to the deposit. At present, the rental price and other related rules are being developed, is expected to be announced in mid-June.
People: less bags of garbage how to do
Zhang Xiaozhen, living in Pudong New Area, a day of life can not be separated from a variety of plastic bags --- morning for the family to buy breakfast, the afternoon to the grocery store to buy groceries, and the evening to the supermarket to purchase daily necessities, the use of plastic bags. She told reporters that it is everyone's responsibility to protect the environment, she is also in support of the "plastic limit", but plastic bags are no longer free, buy things can use cloth bags, carry baskets, the most difficult for her is: years of habit of using plastic bags for garbage, how to change it?
In the interview, the reporter found that, and Zhang auntie has the same worries of the public in the minority. At present, most of the people home to load the garbage plastic bags are from the supermarket, grocery shopping free gift, home to the trash can on a set of garbage filled with directly packaged, thrown away. After the implementation of the "plastic limit", with what kind of items instead of plastic bags for garbage has become one of the issues of concern. Most young people tend to buy special environmentally friendly garbage bags in the supermarket. In Jinqiao Carrefour supermarket reporter saw, these environmental protection garbage bags varieties, specifications are relatively rich, every hundred price between 4 yuan and 10 yuan.
Middle-aged and elderly people intend to buy garbage bags are not many. They save for a rainy day, as early as the "plastic limit" was introduced, busy "hoarding" a variety of plastic bags. It is understood that many residents in the city are collecting plastic bags for use after June, some even from April onwards, so far has been "saved" nearly 200. A nearly 60-year-old said their voices: living in a mishmash of garbage, leftover slop feet, vegetable peelings and eggshells, these do not use plastic bags, how to deal with? They are accustomed to the life of the bag, at first left, some do not adapt.
As a garbage collection, storage and transportation units, the Shanghai sanitation department also has hidden worries. A sanitation worker told reporters that in order to solve the problem of pollution of the environment by exposed garbage, Shanghai has spent 10 years to make the public gradually developed the bagging of garbage. Now a paper "plastic limit" reduces the production of plastic bags, may lead to the return of exposed garbage, increasing the trouble of sanitation operations.
Why the implementation of the "plastic limit", "plastic limit" of the core content, scope of application, and how to implement the issue has become the majority of the public people talking about hot spots.
To this end, the reporter interviewed the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Commission of Commerce.
Q: Why do we need to pay for the use of plastic shopping bags system?
A: The implementation of plastic shopping bags paid use, is to improve the general public people's awareness of one of the means of environmental protection. Its purpose is to cultivate the general public to establish a "reduce or not use" the concept of plastic shopping bags, guide and encourage the general public to change their shopping habits, the rational use of plastic shopping bags, so as to reduce the total number of plastic shopping bags used to curb "white pollution", promote the comprehensive utilization of resources, and protect the ecological environment, the use of plastic shopping bags is one of the means.
Q: What is the core content of the "plastic limit"?
A: "Restriction of plastic" has two core content, one is the provision of commodity retail establishments shall not be sold, the use of plastic shopping bags do not meet the relevant national standards; the second is the provision of commodity retail establishments should be based on the approach to provide consumers with plastic shopping bags at a cost.
Q: "Restriction of plastic" mainly applies to which scope?
A: "Plastic" stipulates: the implementation of paid use of plastic shopping bags is limited to supermarkets, shopping malls and markets. "Restriction of plastic" referred to as supermarkets and shopping malls, including: convenience stores, discount stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets, warehousing membership stores, department stores, specialty stores, specialty stores, home building materials stores, shopping centers, etc., which can be said to basically cover all the retail chain of goods.
Q: "Restriction of plastic shopping bags" referred to in the plastic shopping bag is not our weekdays in shopping malls, supermarkets often see and use of plastic bags?
A: "Plastic" clearly stipulates that the plastic shopping bags are provided by the retail outlets, used to contain the goods purchased by consumers, with the function of carrying plastic bags. But here the plastic shopping bags do not include commodity retail establishments based on health and food safety purposes, used to contain bulk fresh food, cooked food, pasta and other commodities plastic prepackaged bags. This is consistent with the provisions of the National Standardization Committee on April 16 this year issued the "plastic shopping bag standard".
Q: "Plastic" does not have a clear pricing of plastic shopping bags, but some retailers to take the pricing is too low, do not clearly marked price sales of plastic shopping bags or disguised as gratuitous provision of plastic shopping bags and other violations are defined?
Answer: "Plastic" stipulates that commodity retail establishments can set their own prices for plastic shopping bags, but shall not have the following behaviors:
One is lower than the operating costs of sales of plastic shopping bags;
Two is not marked price or not in accordance with the provisions of the contents of the way to indicate the price of sales of plastic shopping bags;
Three is to take a low price of plastic shopping bags;
Three is to take a low price of plastic shopping bags;
Third is to take discounts or other ways not according to the price indicated to consumers sales of plastic shopping bags;
Fourth is to provide consumers with free or disguised as free plastic shopping bags.
That is to say, the pricing of plastic shopping bags shall not be less than the operating costs; commodity retail establishments must be in accordance with the provisions of the plastic shopping bags marked price; to be marked price to consumers in full charges, and in the sale of vouchers on the number of consumers to buy plastic shopping bags, unit price and money listed separately; discounted sales, or gratuitous provision or trade-in, shopping more than a certain amount for free, and so on. Methods are all violations.
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Xinhua Tianjin Channel on May 27, June 1 will soon be here, with what kind of tools to go shopping has become a problem that people have to deal with, and to buy a green shopping bag is really the easiest way. Shopping bags is indeed the easiest, but the price and quality of such shopping bags but many people are not willing to pay out money. In fact, the environmental protection shopping bag is just a concept, and did not set a unified color or even style, non-woven fabric is only one of the materials that can be used repeatedly.
In the people for the choice of shopping bags headache, once provided free plastic bags of businessmen, also used a different way to deal with. Large supermarkets in the step-by-step preparation, from June 1 onwards, customers want to get plastic bags certainly have to pay for another. But for some small merchants, the provision of free plastic bags will have to be implemented for some time.
In the supermarket's silver counter, you can always see the cashier around the piles of plastic shopping bags, but from June 1 onwards, they will be surrounded by a large number of plastic bags will be reduced. Plastic bags will no longer be a free gift, but has become a clearly marked commodity. In response to the "plastic ban", major supermarket chains have prepared a considerable number of environmentally friendly shopping bags.
Carrefour
Similar to the CR Vanguard supermarkets, Carrefour supermarkets are now "eating the old money", to the end of this month, the supermarkets will run out of plastic bags in stock. The reporter visited five supermarket chains found that each chain is to take the exchange, gift and other ways to provide customers with environmentally friendly shopping bags. From the mouth of the person in charge of the supermarket that, from June 1, the supermarket plastic bags will also charge, small shopping bag price of 0.2 yuan / a, medium-sized 0.3 yuan / a, large 0.4 yuan / one.
Easy to buy
In the supermarket store to see, on the "plastic ban" publicity advertising is set in a prominent position. Many customers have begun to buy or exchange environmental protection shopping bags while shopping. From the person in charge of the company's mouth, "plastic ban" implementation of the day began, the supermarket plastic bags will be "marked price", large plastic bag price of 0.3 yuan / a, small plastic bag price of 0.2 yuan / a.
JinGong
JinGong supermarket is the most chain stores in Tianjin, has reached about 300 supermarkets, spread throughout the Tianjin community. Similarly, from June 1, plastic bags will no longer be a free gift, but will be charged according to different sizes. In addition, the supermarket will also spend a certain amount of customers to provide free environmental shopping bags. The reporter visited several chain stores around the community to understand that many of the residents who often go to the Jin Gong supermarket shopping, has been through the supermarket publicity on the "plastic ban" has been understood, and some residents have even prepared their own can be repeated use of bags, vegetable baskets.
Wholesale busy "change of mind" use of waiting to "wait and see"
Dahutong
Reporters in the Dahutong wholesale market to see that, in order to "do not find trouble for themselves!
The reporter saw in Dahutong Wholesale Market that in order to "not give themselves trouble", some vendors specializing in the wholesale of plastic bags have begun to "change their minds", originally placed in front of the stalls of a variety of colors of ultra-thin plastic bags have been disappeared, and replaced by a biodegradable thick plastic bags.
The reporter saw in front of two stalls, one of them although there are still some colors of ultra-thin plastic bags, but a lot less than before. "Although now we have not heard the news in the end to let or not to sell, but has not dared to buy more goods." The stall owner said, although the previous wholesale plastic bags to bring their own income is not bad, but now the state has regulations, so they can only change their minds, will not be "the wind".
And the wholesaler still has a small number of ultra-thin plastic bags compared to another specialized wholesale environmental shopping bags business seems to "ban plastic" more thoroughly. "The price is indeed more expensive than before, but this is obviously much thicker than those before, with a strong ah." For some people who want to wholesale plastic bags, the female stall owner was busy explaining. In her view, they are also disguised to publicize environmental protection, so that people more accept the environmental protection of plastic bags.
Farmer's market
and plastic bag wholesalers for the "plastic ban" than the importance of the reporter in the farmers' market to see the situation, but it is very different, and for the "one more week to implement the 'ban on plastics! '" statement, the vendors did not put in mind. Apparently, the farmers' market has become a "plastic ban" blind spot.
Yesterday afternoon, the reporter in Hongqiao District, a large farmers' market to see, because it is the peak section of the food, vendors are busy, and hanging in front of the stalls of the plastic bag was also one of them free to customers loaded with things. "The ban on the use of plastic bags I heard, but now the market is not a regulation to tell us exactly how to do." A middle-aged man selling vegetables said, people to buy vegetables, he had to tell people to charge money for plastic bags, if the market is not mandatory, he really do not know how to open his mouth.
Subsequently, the reporter visited the Hexi District, as well as Nankai District, a number of farmers' markets, found that for the upcoming implementation of the "ban on plastic", vendors are not too seriously.