Plastic bag use in supermarkets has declined, but it is difficult to eliminate it in vegetable markets
Plastic products are durable and affordable, so they are everywhere in every corner of our lives, but because of the huge amount of use and difficult to degrade, the white pollution caused by waste plastics has become a topic that makes the world feel very headache.
Although China has implemented a plastic restriction order since 2008, prohibiting the production and sale of plastic shopping bags with a thickness less than 0.025 mm in China, all supermarkets, shopping malls, market markets and other commodity retail places are not allowed to provide free plastic bags, but there are still many regulatory blind areas. The pressure of environmental pollution caused by waste plastic products is still huge.
2018 marks the 10th anniversary of China's plastic restriction. A reporter conducted an investigation in June last year and found that it was strictly enforced in shopping malls and supermarkets, but substandard plastic bags were still repeatedly banned in wet markets.
In several large supermarkets in Beijing, we saw that the plastic bags used in supermarkets were basically printed with sizes and specifications, and the thickness of plastic bags met the requirements of the plastic limit order. When we checked out, plastic shopping bags also had corresponding prices. Reporters found that many consumers have a strong sense of environmental protection, to the supermarket shopping, carry their own shopping bags.
Supermarket customers Plastic bags are always bad, degradation is slow, we use dirty can wash the kind of schoolbag.
Since the implementation of the plastic limit to 2016, the use of plastic bags in China's supermarkets has generally been reduced by more than two-thirds, and the cumulative reduction of shopping bags is about 1.4 million tons. However, in small commercial markets such as wet markets, the problem of free plastic bags provided by self-employed people is still widespread.