Original title: Lifting the ban on full moon foam tableware rarely recycled

In May, Nansha landfill in Guangzhou, no one is sorting, waiting to landfill with household waste foam lunch boxes are everywhere. International Food Packaging Association for the picture

Different lunch box recycling "value". International Food Packaging Association

was banned from the production and sale of 14 years of disposable foam tableware in February this year was suddenly announced by the development and Reform Commission since May 1 to lift the ban, one of the reasons is that "after use can be recycled." Now the ban has been lifted in January, disposable foam tableware in the end there is no institution or individual recycling?

Recently, the International Food Packaging Association in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Guangzhou selected a certain scale of waste recycling stations, landfills for investigation, found that disposable foam tableware rarely recycled.

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Survey found that polypropylene (PP) as the main raw material of plastic lunch boxes are recycled around, But the disposable foam plastic lunch box is not recycled. Among them, the recycling price of PP plastic lunch box with color (including porcelain white and other colors) can reach up to 1.2 yuan per kilogram, and the recycling price of pure transparent PP plastic lunch box can reach up to 4.6 yuan per kilogram.

The investigation found that in an office in Beijing, when a cleaner held a black garbage bag to collect garbage, he sorted out the colored lunch box and the transparent lunch box and packed the foam lunch box with other garbage. After inquiry, the cleaning staff with color PP plastic lunch box and pure PP transparent lunch box, respectively, at 0.6 yuan per kilogram and 2 yuan per kilogram price sold to the peddlers of the third round of waste collection. When asked why the white foam lunch box was packed with household garbage, the cleaner took the foam lunch box and said: "This is waste, can not be used, when the garbage is disposed of."

Not only does the recycling station not recycle the foam lunch box, but even the "3 cents project" specially set up by the Shanghai government for the foam lunch box has not been able to operate normally. On May 19, 2013, Hangzhou City Express published a report entitled "Foam tableware recycling Shanghai pilot encounter Waterloo", the report pointed out that China's only remaining foam tableware recycling and disposal enterprises - Jiangsu Kunshan green plastic resources recycling processing Co., LTD., the recycled foam lunch box is not enough to start, most of the production line is in a state of suspension.

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In 2001, the former Economic and Trade Commission issued the "Emergency Notice on immediately stopping the production of disposable foamed plastic tableware", Pointed out that "disposable foamed plastic tableware in the production, use, recycling and other links have serious problems." At present, the recycling mechanism of foamed lunch boxes has not been established and improved, but the foamed lunch boxes have been lifted.

A large number of discarded foam lunch boxes are stacked in front of the Xiaoshan commercial city store in Hangzhou; In Guangzhou, a large number of foam lunch boxes are thrown into the trash every day, but no one is sorting them, and they are transported directly to the garbage compression station together with household garbage.

According to the above investigation, the trend of pollution after the lifting of the ban on foam lunch boxes has been highlighted. On the one hand, the discarded foam lunch box due to large size, light weight, inconvenient transportation, oil adsorption is difficult to clean, no one to recycle, a large amount of consumption of foam lunch box is essentially the consumption of oil resources. On the other hand, the unrecycled foam lunch box is crushed and landfill together with household garbage, but the foam lunch box is difficult to degrade for a hundred years, and the landfill treatment makes the foam lunch box debris deposition, which not only pollens the soil but also may affect the underground water quality. And this material can not be incinerated, otherwise it may produce carcinogens.

And at present, and polypropylene (PP) as the main material of the plastic lunch box is abandoned after some people pick up, some people recycle, there is no environmental pollution problem. And the leftovers after the polypropylene plastic lunch box is not sticky and easy to clean, and can be used to make plastic daily necessities, plastic tables and chairs, building floor tiles and other recycled products after recycling. From the recycling point of view of plastic resources, polypropylene plastic lunch box is more environmentally friendly than foam lunch box.

Dong Jinshi, executive vice president of the International Food Packaging Association, suggested that the government should establish a practical recycling mechanism, and clarify the competent departments and supervision departments of the waste recycling of foam tableware as soon as possible.