Beijing, May 18 news (reporter Wang Yuan) With the advent of the Internet era, all kinds of take-out apps have sprung up, people enjoy the convenience and speed at the same time, but ignore the huge pressure it brings to the ecological environment. According to the data, a rough average calculation of the spread area of packaging waste in Shandong Province in 2015, and the area of waste generated by online takeout can cover 2.6 Daming Lakes in one day. While enjoying the convenience of life brought by the O2O industry such as online takeout, how should people realize the win-win situation of convenience of life and pollution reduction, which needs to arouse the attention and thinking of the society.

In recent years, online ordering has gradually entered people's lives, and more and more people have been accustomed to ordering takeout through mobile phone APP or phone to solve the problem of eating. A large number of food and beverage packaging waste will also be produced. Like plastic or foam lunch boxes, plastic bags, disposable chopsticks, etc., constitute the main part of take-out waste. Orders from various delivery platforms are also growing rapidly, which means that take-out waste is also on the rise. Although there is no authoritative statistics on the amount of take-out waste, it can be seen from the order volume of take-out platforms.

According to the data released by Meituan takeout, ele. me, Baidu takeout, etc., the daily order volume of these three takeout platforms is about 7 million orders, according to which we can roughly calculate an account, according to each single takeout with 1 plastic bag, each plastic bag is 0.06 square meters to calculate, the plastic bag used every day can cover 420,000 square meters. This is equivalent to 59 football fields. In the context of food delivery gradually becoming a lifestyle habit, how to reduce food delivery waste is an issue that needs to attract the attention of the whole society. Many netizens said that for consumers and operators, it is difficult for them to consciously abandon the convenience and profit they enjoy.

Therefore, it is up to government departments to increase the publicity of green development concept and building a two-oriented society, guide consumers to strengthen their environmental awareness, and reduce the use of disposable chopsticks when ordering takeout; At the same time, it is necessary to increase the implementation of environmental protection policies, strengthen the supervision of the plastic bag market, put an end to the production and use of non-compliant plastic bags, strictly urge operators to choose paid use of plastic bags, reduce the use of plastic bags; To guide and encourage tableware manufacturing enterprises to innovate and increase the production of environmentally friendly tableware, for secondary use, recycling or burial decomposition to provide more possibilities.

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