Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission on the "Industrial structure adjustment guidance directory (2011)" carried out a local adjustment, which in the "elimination of products" in the directory deleted the original prohibited use of disposable foam plastic tableware, which is to say that the original was regarded as a serious pollution drawbacks of the item will be lifted.

Disposable foamed tableware will produce "white pollution", which is common sense for Chinese food consumers, but it is because of its convenience and widespread use, the pollution caused by the environment is also shocking. Therefore, as early as 14 years ago, this disposable foam tableware has been listed as prohibited items by the relevant parties, strictly prohibited businesses to use.

In this case, why did the relevant departments overturn the original regulations and re-open the market for this kind of foam tableware? According to an article posted on the official website of the National Development and Reform Commission, the environment that initially banned the use of disposable foam tableware has changed greatly. However, this conclusion is obviously far from the current situation of increasingly serious environmental pollution. In recent years, vicious incidents of toxic food and toxic drugs have been frequently exposed around the country, many of which are caused by some unscrupulous businesses ignoring market regulations and social responsibilities, but many problems are actually vicious outbreaks of environmental pollution problems accumulated over a long period of time. In this context, lifting the ban is obviously at odds with environmental protection goals. Moreover, no specific, scientific reason has been given for the adjustment, and the policy changes are so frequent that it is hard to convince the public, and even arouses suspicions of corporate PR.

What is worth thinking about is the motivation of the relevant departments to make this policy adjustment. As we all know, foaming tableware is simple to make, low cost, and its finished products appear more beautiful, so it can indeed be welcomed by consumers, there is a larger market, so there is a higher economic value, once you use other items, it will increase business operating costs. However, this simple from the economic point of view of the habit of thinking, over the years has appeared in the increase of economic benefits and environmental protection of the game, large to the government of environmental governance, small to the choice of a product, under the leverage of economic indicators, environmental protection is easy to be softened or even dissolved.

In fact, the so-called economic benefits of foaming tableware can only be established after ignoring the recovery and treatment costs, as long as the supervision is a little slack, the "white pollution" caused by it once it comes back, the society will pay a heavy cost of governance. Therefore, even if it is an economic account, foaming tableware compared with other tableware, there is no advantage in the "cost performance". In recent years, due to the excessive emphasis on the pursuit of GDP growth, we have paid the painful price of environmental destruction and people's well-being. Therefore, in the future economic development, environmental protection must be used as a hard indicator, and we can no longer tolerate the behavior of allowing environmental pollution to continue to exist for a little economic gain.

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