To stop the waste of "half-bottle water" with "bottle-cleaning action"

Oriental Network

6 hours ago

Recently, the Nanjing Market Supervision Bureau found that a meeting At the end of the meeting, 48 bottles of drinking water were left in the conference room, 43 of which were opened and discarded by the cleaning staff without being consumed. At the same time, the hotel did not post the required anti-food waste signs, in violation of the People's Republic of China Anti-Food Waste Law. In this regard, the law enforcement officers ordered the hotel to make immediate corrections and issued an administrative penalty decision on the spot, giving a warning. At present, the hotel has made rectification. (March 7 Lychee News)

This is a typical case of conference drinking water waste, according to Article 28 of the Anti-Food Waste Law, "Food service operators do not take the initiative to remind consumers of tips to prevent food waste, by the market supervision and management department of the local people's government at or above the county level, or by the departments designated by the local people's government at or above the county level, shall order rectification and give a warning." Therefore, the hotel failed to fulfill the obligation to take the initiative to remind, resulting in 43 bottles of "half-bottle water" was casually discarded, resulting in a waste of water resources, the administrative penalty is not unfair. This can be an opportunity to carry out the "clean bottle action" in the country, advocating people to develop good habits of water conservation.

Bottled water is the current standard for conferences, generally provided free of charge by the hotel, a small number of conference organizers to provide their own. In either case, "half a bottle of water" waste phenomenon is more common, often people do not finish drinking thrown away, as long as the bottle is open, the hotel is generally treated as garbage. A bottle of water does not seem to be worth money, just a few dollars, but the conference drinking water did not drink, caused by the phenomenon of waste of water resources, but it is worth the public vigilance. According to expert surveys found that, according to conservative estimates, the general meeting of more than 10% of the bottled water will have leftover water, the country is estimated to be more than ten million bottles per year.

China's water shortage, per capita water resources occupancy rate of less than a quarter of the world average, with the continuous development of society, China's industrial water, urban water consumption continues to increase, the contradiction between the supply and demand for water resources is becoming more and more serious, and has become an obstacle to the development of industry and even social development. Moreover, bottled water in the production, transportation, sales and other links, but also need to consume a lot of social resources, "half a bottle of water" phenomenon will not only cause the waste of water, but also will bring plastic packaging waste, energy waste, environmental pollution pressure and other derivative problems.

It can be seen, advocating the economical use of bottled water, stop "half a bottle of water" waste behavior, not only in order to practice anti-food waste, but also in order to save valuable resources, reduce energy consumption, alleviate environmental pollution, is to benefit the interests of all the people of the big event. Previously, around the initiation and adherence to the "optical disc action", in the minds of the public to set up a food saving, to stop the waste of consciousness, moderation of ordering, eat or pack the idea, and gradually deepen people's hearts, food and beverage waste phenomenon has been effectively curbed. Therefore, all over the bottled water waste phenomenon, launched a "bottle action", guiding the public to establish a sense of water conservation, in order to better protect and utilize water resources.