The plastic limit order should extend the chain of supervision, not only to limit use, but also to limit sales and production

"Do you need plastic bags?" When people go shopping, they often choose to spend a few cents to buy a plastic bag. This is the ninth year of the official plastic bag limit, but the survey shows that the limit has put people in an awkward position: It is not uncommon for small shops to offer free plastic bags directly, while large stores sell plastic bags. In some places, the plastic limit order can be said to exist in name only, and has almost become a "plastic selling order".

Plastic bags have been called "the worst invention of mankind in the 20th century". It is well known that white pollution causes great harm. The reason why plastic bags are favored by consumers is very simple: convenience. The original intention of the implementation of the plastic limit order is to reduce this "convenience", increase the cost of obtaining plastic bags, and let users pay a certain fee for the use of plastic bags. But from the effect point of view, such an original intention to a large extent disappointed.

Facing the various parties involved in the plastic bag industry, the implementation of the policy has fallen into the difficulty of supervision. First of all, plastic bags almost penetrate into all aspects of ordinary people's lives, no matter how strong the regulatory force, the face of the flood of details of life will inevitably be stretched, which leads to low efficiency of policy implementation. Secondly, plastic bag manufacturers and retailers have the appeal of maximizing interests, and have the motivation to escape supervision; And consumers, enjoying the convenience brought by plastic bags, have developed a short-term consumption dependence that is difficult to give up. Supervision is difficult, production has interests, consumption is dependent, and the intersection of various parties' behaviors leaves living space for plastic bags, making the plastic limit order Mired in idling and difficult to implement.

In addition to the existing difficulties, the plastic limit order is also facing new problems. Just look at the express delivery industry and take-out industry that have arisen with the "Internet +" in recent years. Some people have done such a statistic: according to the average use of two lunch boxes per order, the current number of plastic lunch boxes used by China's Internet ordering platform a day is about 40 million. The express delivery industry needs 12 billion plastic bags and 24.7 billion meters of sealing tape a year. With the rapid development of the Internet economy, the problem of small plastic bags can no longer be ignored.

Both the regulatory level of the problem, but also the interest relationship constraints, coupled with the new situation and new problems brought by economic development, the implementation of the plastic limit order in the dilemma, like a microcosm of today's environmental governance. For government departments, strengthening regulatory power and innovating regulatory methods are the meaning of strengthening source control. The plastic limit order should also extend the regulatory chain, not only to limit use, but also to limit sales and production, and make efforts at both sides of the demand side and the supply side.

In the implementation, if only the government departments to fight alone, it is doomed to single-handedly, but also should mobilize the power of society, the market and consumers, to participate in the process of plastic bag governance. For example, shared bicycles solve the problem of the "last kilometer" of travel by market means, and plastic limits can also rely on the power of the market. In some countries, supermarkets no longer sell plastic bags, but provide rental services, customers pay a deposit can rent environmentally friendly shopping bags, that is, rent, after use, has played a good governance effect. This way is worth our reference, even if it can not be in place in one step, but in the process of exploration, it can gradually find a win-win way to be accepted by many parties.

For the administrators, the twists and turns of the plastic limit order are just an opportunity to enrich the means of governance and improve the capacity of governance. Plastic limit order has been implemented for nearly 10 years, in the inventory to sum up the gains and losses, in the promotion of improve the means, help to accumulate more experience can be promoted. Innovative regulatory methods, the introduction of market forces, and the promotion of environmental awareness, the thinking brought by the plastic limit order can provide beneficial enlightenment for environmental governance from a broader level. With the improvement of environmental governance ability and public environmental literacy, we believe that one day we will be able to bid farewell to those harmful ways of life, and make our common home cleaner and better.

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