Shanghai, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai officially released a series of standards for food delivery boxes on April 27. With the pilot implementation of the series of group standards on June 1, Ele.me, Baidu Takeout and Meituan Takeout three online food delivery platforms in some pilot areas in Shanghai will replace plastic delivery boxes with coated paper bowls, which is expected to reduce plastic waste by more than 75 percent on the basis of ensuring quality and safety.

"Internet + food ordering platform" has developed rapidly in recent years. Incomplete statistics show that the average daily takeout order in Shanghai is as high as 1.65 million orders. Problems such as the uneven quality of food delivery boxes and the soaring plastic waste have become increasingly prominent. It is estimated that Shanghai alone has more than 1.2 billion discarded plastic food delivery boxes a year, or about 45,000 tons.

The announcement of the food delivery box series of group standards, including take-out paper bowl, food delivery bag 2 products and its supporting management norms a total of 3 group standards. Shanghai Food contact Materials Association executive vice president Zhang Ruohong introduced that the group standard relative to the current national standard in many indicators more stringent provisions, such as mold indicators relative to the national standard increased by 80%, but also proposed to use paper bags, degradable plastic bags, textile bags to replace traditional plastic bags. "According to the Chinese food delivery delivery process stacking, bumpy, temperature and humidity and other environmental conditions, the group standard also set" compatibility ", "tilt", "tolerance" and "overall pressure resistance" and other four indicators to enhance the durability of the lunch box."

Group standard also stipulates that the food and beverage enterprises that do not use the paper bowls and meal delivery bags required by the standard are deducted points, and after the deduction is added to different score values, the network ordering platform will take measures to reduce the ranking, cancel platform subsidy activities, temporary rectification, offline rectification and other disposal measures.

Chen Xiaojun, deputy director of the Shanghai Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, said that the group standard is the standard of social groups to coordinate the market subject and promise to implement, the three major network food delivery platform will be carried out in Shanghai Changning, Pudong, Putuo three districts in June, and the next step will be gradually promoted to the whole city. "The quality supervision department will timely start the drafting work of group standard 2.0 version in the future, and continue to improve and optimize the product index system."

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