Food delivery has quietly changed everyone's lifestyle.
Takeout makes eating easier. No matter what you want to eat, just open your phone and place an order, and the delivery boy will deliver the food to you quickly.
It is said that at least 400 million takeaways are flying through the streets of China every week.
However, there are reports that takeaways are destroying our lives...These takeaways come to you after selecting materials, making, packaging, and delivering them.
A plastic bag, disposable chopsticks, straws, and maybe cigarette butts from after-dinner cigarettes were thrown into the trash can downstairs in the community together with the leftovers.
In fact, you may not think there is anything wrong with this series of operations, but it does have very serious problems.
At least 400 million takeaways are sold on the streets of China every week.
At least 400 million disposable packaging boxes and 400 million plastic bags are produced, as well as 400 million disposable tableware waste.
The average use time of a plastic bag is 25 minutes. Taking takeout as an example, its mission is to ensure that your takeout will not be confused with other people's during the ten minutes of delivery.
After the mission is over, these plastic bags are sent to landfills or dumped directly into the sea. The problem is that it takes at least 470 years for each plastic bag to degrade. This is just an increase. The stock of domestic waste in China's cities has exceeded 8 billion tons.
A survey by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development shows that more than two-thirds of China's cities are surrounded by garbage, and a quarter of the cities no longer have suitable places to pile garbage. Garbage piles have occupied a total of 800,000 acres of land.
China's 40,000 towns and nearly 600,000 administrative villages generate more than 280 million tons of domestic waste every year, which exceeds that of cities.
So, it’s not that takeaways are going to destroy the next generation, it’s this garbage that’s going to destroy the next generation.