At the same time, from 202 1, the production and sale of disposable plastic cotton swabs and disposable foamed plastic tableware are prohibited nationwide; Non-degradable disposable plastic straws are prohibited in the catering industry throughout the country, but straws that come with food packaging such as milk and beverages are not prohibited for the time being.
Legal basis: Notice on Solidly Promoting the Control of Plastic Pollution
The first is to implement the responsibility of territorial management.
All localities should improve their political stance, further enhance their sense of urgency and responsibility to do a good job in plastic pollution control, and intensify the implementation of the work. Before mid-August, the provincial implementation plan will be introduced to refine the decomposition tasks and compact the responsibilities at different levels; Supervise provincial capital cities, cities with separate plans, cities above prefecture level, etc. Combined with local conditions, around the stage goal before the end of 2020, analyze and evaluate the key and difficult issues in various fields, study and put forward practical and effective specific promotion measures to ensure that the objectives and tasks are completed on schedule.
The second is to pay close attention to key points and promote implementation.
(a) to strengthen supervision and inspection of the prohibition of the production and sale of plastic products. Local market supervision departments should carry out quality supervision and inspection of plastic products, and investigate and deal with the production and sales of ultra-thin plastic shopping bags with a thickness of less than 0.025mm and polyethylene agricultural mulching films with a thickness of less than 0.0 1 mm according to law; In accordance with the prohibition period stipulated in the Opinions, we will carry out law enforcement work on disposable foamed plastic tableware, disposable plastic cotton swabs and daily chemical products containing plastic beads listed in the catalogue of eliminated products. The local competent departments of industry and information technology shall, jointly with relevant departments and in accordance with the deployment requirements of local governments, organize enterprises involved in the production of waste plastic products within their respective jurisdictions to reduce production capacity and guide relevant enterprises to do a good job in production adjustment in time.
(two) to strengthen the supervision and management of retail catering and other fields. Local commercial departments should strengthen the supervision and management of stopping the use of non-degradable plastic bags in retail places, take-away services and various exhibition activities in accordance with the requirements of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes and the work arrangements of local governments. Local commercial and market supervision departments should, in accordance with the deployment requirements of the local government, promote the establishment of a centralized shopping bag purchase and sale system in bazaars, and further standardize the sales and use of plastic shopping bags in bazaars. Local cultural and tourism departments should strengthen the supervision and management of catering services in scenic spots in accordance with the deployment requirements of local governments. All localities should, in light of the actual situation, explicitly prohibit and restrict the use of plastic in the catering industry, strengthen supervision and management, guide and urge relevant enterprises to do a good job in product substitution, and stop using disposable plastic straws and disposable plastic tableware within the time limit stipulated in the Opinions.
(3) Promote agricultural film management. Local agricultural and rural departments should strengthen cooperation with supply and marketing cooperatives, organize trade-in, exchange of business entities, recycling specialized organizations, etc. , promote the pilot project of extended responsibility system for agricultural film producers, promote the construction of demonstration counties for agricultural film recycling, and improve the recycling system for abandoned agricultural films. Local agricultural and rural departments should, jointly with relevant departments, strengthen spot checks on agricultural films sold in the market, and incorporate polyethylene agricultural films with a thickness of less than 0.0 1 mm and packaging plastic films illegally used for farmland coverage into agricultural anti-counterfeiting actions.
(four) standardize the collection and treatment of plastic waste. Local housing and urban-rural construction departments should combine the implementation of domestic waste classification, increase the intensity of classified collection and treatment of plastic waste, and promote the low-value plastic waste with high sorting cost and unsuitable resource utilization to enter the domestic waste incineration power plant for energy utilization, so as to reduce the amount of plastic waste landfill.
(five) to carry out special cleaning of plastic waste. Local housing and urban-rural construction departments should, in conjunction with relevant departments, complete the task of rectifying large-scale informal garbage dumps on time. Local agricultural and rural departments should organize the clean-up and rectification of farmland residual films. The ecological and environmental departments in coastal areas should take the lead in organizing and carrying out actions such as cleaning beaches.