Original title: NDRC lifted the ban on disposable foam plastic tableware

Xinhua Beijing, March 28 (reporter Jiang Guocheng) The National Development and Reform Commission said 28, due to disposable foam plastic tableware in line with the national food packaging utensils related standards and conducive to energy saving characteristics, decided to remove this product from the industrial structure guidance directory elimination category, Allow production and use.

The relevant person in charge of the industry coordination Department of the Development and Reform Commission said that the deletion of disposable foam plastic tableware items is mainly based on a variety of considerations: it meets the relevant standards of national food packaging utensils; It can be recycled after use; Many countries and regions in the world have been using it; Can save oil resources; The behavior of discarding garbage has been greatly reduced, the waste recycling system has been gradually established, the environment that initially banned the use of disposable foamable plastic tableware has changed greatly, and the time to adjust the "disposable foamable plastic tableware" item is basically ripe.

In view of the toxicity of tableware that the masses are most concerned about, the National Development and Reform Commission commissioned the Food Safety Institute of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct an inspection according to relevant national standards. The experimental results showed that disposable foamed plastic tableware met the relevant national standards.

In addition, after the use of disposable foamed plastic tableware through recycling, processing, reuse, can produce building materials, coatings, stationery and other products, to achieve the reuse of resources.

The Development and Reform Commission said that in addition to China, the vast majority of countries and regions, such as the United States, the European Union, Japan, etc., have been producing and using disposable foamed plastic tableware, and are constantly developing new products of disposable foamed plastic tableware.

The person in charge said that disposable foamed plastic tableware is light in weight, less consumables, can reduce raw material consumption, save oil, in line with the direction of resource conservation.

In the late 1990s, due to the mass use of disposable polystyrene foamed plastic tableware (" disposable foamed plastic tableware ") caused "white pollution", China began to ban the use of railway stations and passenger trains, Yangtze River and Taihu Lake and other inland waterway shipping passenger ships and tourist ships. Development and Reform Commission in December 2005 issued the "Industrial structure adjustment guidance Directory (2005)" will be "disposable foam plastic tableware" included in the elimination of products.

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