The trash can is full of used paper bowls.

On September 25th, in a snack bar on Luoyu Road, Hongshan, the dining table was filled with convenient paper bowls filled with food. This edition of photography/reporter Zhan Song

This newspaper (reporter Zhang? Buy a disposable paper bowl too early and throw it away after eating. In Wuhan, more than 1 million paper bowls are "eaten" by citizens every day.

on September 23rd, at a large industrial exhibition in our city, five or six paper bowl and paper cup processors were quite eye-catching. Among them, Ruian Oriental Paper Cup Machinery Co., Ltd. has a booth area of more than 21 square meters. Wang Jing, the head of its sales department, said that he came to China to participate in the exhibition last year, met more than 31 Wuhan customers and sold more than 31 sets of equipment. He is full of confidence in participating again this year.

"Wuhan people like to eat Regan Noodles and beef powder in paper bowls." Wang Jing estimated that the sales volume of paper bowls in Wuhan may rank first in the country. "Last year, low-end machines were involved, and customers complained that the production speed was too slow. This year, we brought high-speed machines, and one machine can produce 61 paper bowls in 1 minutes."

Is the paper bowl market in Wuhan really as big as he said? On September 24th, the reporter visited several breakfast stalls in Hubu Lane, Wuchang, Minsheng Sweets Restaurant in Hankou and Guanshan. The speed of "eating" paper bowls in hot spots was amazing, and ten bowls were sold in one minute, even in the snack bar in the back street cold lane, 151 could be sold in one day. In Hanzheng Street, Qianjia Street and other paper bowl wholesale markets, business is booming. However, no matter whether the buyer is still the seller, no one cares whether it is environmentally friendly.

Jin Guozhou, marketing manager of Wuhan Huamei Environmental Protection Company, which produces degradable disposable cups and bowls, said that the company's market research showed that the number of disposable cups and bowls consumed in Wuhan exceeded 1 million every day.

According to the data from Wuhan Catering Industry Association, at present, there are more than 11,111 snack bars in Wuhan. Generally, each store can sell at least 111 bowls of snacks every day to break even. From this, the demand for paper bowls in Wuhan snack market is more than 1 million every day.

Li Hanwu, deputy secretary general of Wuhan Environmental Protection Industry Association, calculated an account: At present, every ton of paper produced in China consumes 7~15 trees with a tree age of about 21 years and 111 cubic meters of water. Based on this calculation, it takes more than 11 tons of paper to use disposable paper bowls every day in Wuhan, and 71~151 trees and 1111 cubic meters of water are needed to produce these papers, which is equivalent to "gnawing" a small garden tree on the street every day.

Too many paper bowls are used too early

Nobody cares about "environmental protection"

Reporter Zhang? Cai Shuang Chen Yongquan Intern Shi Wei

Hubu Lane:

The trash can at the entrance of the snack bar is full of paper bowls

At 9 o'clock in the morning on September 24th, the reporter saw in the snack street of Hubu Lane in Wuchang that about 21 snack bars provided paper cups and paper bowls in almost every family. In Cai Linji's Regan Noodles and Xu Sister-in-law's paste soup powder, ten paper bowls are used in one minute. In a small soup bag shop with few diners, within 11 minutes of the reporter's premature, there were also 11 diners who bought 11 breakfast in paper bowls.

After that, the reporter followed the sanitation workers who cleared the garbage bins in front of each household and found that at 9: 45, the large garbage bins half a person high outside the snack street in Hubu Lane were full of paper bowls, paper cups and convenient chopsticks.

In Zhongxiaomen Community Snack Bar on Minzhu Road in Wuchang, although it is important for the neighbors to patronize, the business is also very good. "Although there are not many people eating, there is still a business of 15 kilograms of Regan Noodles and 3 kilograms of vermicelli every day." Boss Luo said that because some diners choose sterilized bowls and some diners choose paper bowls, he probably uses 111~151 paper bowls every day.

At about p>11 o'clock, the reporter saw in Sanzhen Minsheng Sweet Restaurant in Hongqi Canal Road and Beihu in Hankou that although the premature peak has passed, two or three paper bowls will be used every minute.

In the same period of time, at two warm and dry noodle stalls next to Philip Burkart Shuangn Education School in Guanshan, the reporter noticed that more than 71 pasta and more than 21 glutinous rice flour were sold in one hour, and roughly, nearly 111 disposable paper lunch boxes had been used. Outside the adjacent trash can, there are discarded paper bowls and disposable lunch boxes.

At noon, the two stalls sold more than 71 takeaways to nearby schools, using nearly 151 lunch boxes.

wholesale market:

buyers and sellers don't care about "environmental protection"

On September 24th, in Qianjia Street, Wuchang, reporters "wholesale" paper bowls on the grounds of opening a snack bar.

The reporter found that paper bowls that can be found in snack bars are sold here. Among them, most paper bowls are printed with recyclable environmental protection signs, while the departmental paper bowls are not clarified for environmental protection because of printing advertisements. In terms of feel, Gold GHD IV Styler, an expensive paper bowl, is thicker and harder than a cheap paper bowl, and Pink GHD IV Styler, which is obviously soft to the touch.

When a reporter questioned whether these paper bowls were environmentally friendly and the hygiene standards were up to standard, a paper bowl wholesaler said disdainfully, "It's not your family that sells snacks. I've never heard of anyone being investigated for environmental protection or not."

There are also many wholesale markets for disposable goods on Hanzheng Street. The reporter visited and learned that there are many breakfast stalls and small restaurants in three towns of Wuhan that wholesale lunch boxes here. Xiong Yuanping, the boss of Hongyuan Commercial Bank, said that lunch boxes are all started in a box, and customers usually have to take at least two boxes. "There are many schools in Wuchang, and the surrounding restaurants and early stalls take more every time."

At the Central China Disposable Tableware Wholesale Market in Wangjiaxiang, several Jinbei vans are loading disposable tableware. The owner of Dahua grocery store said that because it is cheap, a large number of wholesalers will come here, and all the wholesale shops including Hanzheng Street will buy goods here. The reporter noticed that only a few paper bowls were printed with the words "environmental protection products". But no matter the buyer or the seller, no one pays attention to or inquires about the word "environmental protection", and cheap price is the first choice for buyers.

Paper bowls bring multiple pollution

Environmental protection products will be available

Reporter Zhang? Cai Shuang Chen Yongquan Intern Shi Wei

Municipal Environmental Protection Industry Association:

Wuhan "eats" a small forest a day

It is reported that every ton of paper produced in China will consume 7~15 trees with a tree age of about 21 years and 111 cubic meters of water.

On September 24th, a reporter used an electronic scale to weigh 51 disposable paper bowls in a supermarket on Taipei Road. The weight was about 511g.

Li Hanwu, deputy secretary-general of Wuhan Environmental Protection Industry Association, calculated an account from this: based on an average of 11 grams of a paper bowl, one ton of paper can only produce one million paper bowls, which is not counting the waste of scraps in production. In this way, Wuhan people need to consume more than 11 tons of paper every day to use disposable paper bowls, and it takes at least 71~151 trees and 1111 cubic meters of water to produce these papers. This is equivalent to all the trees in a small garden on the street, or the green trees on the 511-meter section.

Not only does it destroy forest resources, but paper bowls also bring multiple pollution. Li Hanwu said that in addition to smoke and air pollution, the production process also produced a large number of wastewater, and its discharged chemical oxygen demand concentration reached more than 111 mg, far higher than that of other enterprises designated by the state. However, the paper bowls filled with soup are littered, which brings negative effects to Wuhan's environmental sanitation. Everyone sees it every day, and it is even more difficult to quantify it.

Li Hanwu said that our city is phasing out paper bowl manufacturers and replacing them with degradable and recyclable environmentally-friendly bowls. At present, there are six large-scale environmental protection paper bowl manufacturers in our city, such as Far East Green World, but there are still a large number of small workshop-style paper bowl manufacturers. With the promotion of the construction of "two-oriented society" in our city, our city closes more than 11 small paper enterprises every year to maintain the water quality of rivers and lakes in Wuhan and the atmospheric environment of citizens.

The hygienic premise of environmental protection paper bowls is also worrying. According to national regulations, recycled paper cannot be used to make tableware. However, at present, many black-hearted enterprises recycle toilet paper to make paper bowls, and heavy metals such as bacteria, lead and mercury exceed the standard severely. On May 21th this year, only the industrial and commercial department of Jianghan District investigated and dealt with 181,111 inferior paper bowls produced by a black workshop at one time.

Environmental protection enterprises in Wuhan:

Starch will replace paper and plastic

One of the leading environmental protection enterprises in Wuhan? Jin Guozhou, head of Fuli Environmental Marketing Department, said that the essence of environmental protection enterprises is to produce disposable products on the principle of not consuming or consuming less non-renewable resources, and these products must be easily degradable and have low emissions. Trees are resources with slow regeneration, and it takes several years for a forest to grow up, so paper or plastic should not be the first choice for disposable products.

Jin Guozhou introduced that at present, there are many kinds of paper and plastic substitute materials in the world. Most of the raw materials used are starch. Through hydrolysis and plasticization, these raw materials become very similar to plastics or paper, which is more than enough for disposable products, and they can be degraded. After being buried in the soil for several years, they become inorganic substances and water.

Jin guozhou is optimistic, because at present, the technological requirements for this material are relatively high, and only a few enterprises in China have the production ability, but the development of new materials and environmental protection materials will be the general trend, and the current resource-consuming materials will be eliminated sooner or later.

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