Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the General Administration of Supply and Marketing Cooperation and other nine departments jointly issued a "notice on the solid advancement of the work of plastic pollution control", "Notice" and detailed standards for the implementation of the industry enterprise plastic pollution control requirements to point out the direction of the end of 2020 in the task of plastic pollution control objectives related to the retail and catering industries are mainly the following categories:

< strong>1, non-degradable plastic bags

By the end of 2020, ? Municipalities directly under the Central Government, provincial capitals, cities with plans to single city urban built-up areas of shopping malls, supermarkets, pharmacies, bookstores and other places as well as catering packaged takeaway services and various types of exhibition activities prohibit the use of disposable non-biodegradable plastic bags.

The "Notice" clearly states that non-degradable plastic bags refers to shopping malls, supermarkets, drugstores, bookstores and other non-degradable plastic shopping bags used to hold and carry items,? Excluding health and food safety purposes, used to contain bulk fresh food, cooked food, pasta and other commodities, plastic pre-packaged bags, rolled bags, fresh bags.

2, disposable plastic straws

By the end of 2020,? Nationwide catering industry banned the use of non-biodegradable disposable plastic straws. The Notice specifies the? The scope of the ban does not include the plastic straws that come with the outer packaging of milk, beverages and other foods.

3, disposable plastic tableware

By the end of 2020,? Prefectural-level cities above the built-up areas, scenic spots of catering dine-in services, prohibit the use of non-degradable disposable plastic tableware. The Notice will be the current ban on non-degradable disposable plastic tableware categories clearly for disposable non-degradable plastic knives, forks, spoons, excluding pre-packaged food use of disposable plastic tableware.

In addition, products such as ultra-thin plastic shopping bags, disposable foaming tableware, disposable plastic swabs, and daily chemical products containing plastic microbeads are all relevant to the daily operations of the retail and catering industries. The refined standards in the Notice take full account of the actual situation of the industry and the production and supply situation, which not only increase the operability of the policy, but also ensure that the policy is steadily promoted. The retail and catering industries will actively promote the implementation in accordance with the relevant requirements.

Expanded Information:

1, disposable plastic shopping bags: with the public's environmental awareness, many consumers have developed the habit of bringing their own shopping bags, the formation of public green consumption habits, to reduce the use of plastic bags has an important role.

Of course, the alternative to plastic shopping bags is a variety of programs, such as many supermarkets can provide consumers with non-woven shopping bags, design and production of beautiful environmental protection shopping bags and even become a shopping fashion; paper shopping bags instead of plastic shopping bags also most of the business practices; some bookstores use a simple kraft paper parcel to replace the shopping bag has received a good result. A very good effect. In addition, some supermarkets are also actively promoting the use of environmentally friendly biodegradable plastic shopping bags.

2, disposable plastic straw : In order to reduce the use of disposable plastic straws, some catering enterprises through the transformation of cold drinks cup cover, with cup cover with spout instead of straw + cup cover combination, a better alternative to the function of beverage straws. The straw function of the drink has been replaced. Biodegradable plastic straws and other alternative products are also in active production and application, the gradual maturity of the relevant products, can provide strong support for the replacement of disposable non-biodegradable plastic straws.

3, disposable plastic tableware (knife, fork and spoon): In order to reduce the consumption of disposable plastic knife, fork and spoon, the majority of qualified catering enterprises in the dine-in using reusable tableware. Some fast food enterprises are using bamboo spoon instead of disposable plastic spoon, also achieved better results. Tableware made of biodegradable plastic is also now available for consumers to choose from.

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