"Plastic limit order" since June 1, 2008 since the implementation of nearly 5 years, the International Food Packaging Association released a survey report yesterday shows that although the plastic limit order has been effective, but pollution is still serious; The survey found that most of the thickness of shopping plastic bags sold in supermarkets in Beijing is not qualified, and the problem is serious in farmers' markets and small commodity cities.

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5 years to reduce plastic consumption of 1 million tons

National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the General Administration of Quality Inspection and other departments, Not long ago jointly issued the "Notice on deepening the implementation of restrictions on the production and sale of plastic shopping bags" said that since the implementation of the "plastic limit order" in 2008, China's main commodity retail places have reduced the use of plastic shopping bags by 67 billion, reducing plastic consumption by 1 million tons, equivalent to saving 6 million tons of oil.

However, the International Food Packaging Association said in this regard, public figures show that China's annual production of plastic bags need to consume 2 million tons of plastic, from 2008 "plastic limit order" implementation so far, 5 years to consume 10 million tons, although through the plastic limit 5 years to reduce the consumption of plastic 1 million tons, but the reduction is only 10% of consumption, And most of the 90% of the consumption of plastic has not been recycled, but mixed with China's waste treatment, pollution problems are still serious. In addition, the implementation of China's plastic restrictions is "ice and fire", large shopping malls and supermarkets are generally well implemented, but farmers' markets and street stalls are plastic restrictions "blind areas", and the environmental and resource problems brought by plastic bags are still difficult.

- Current situation

According to the relevant regulations, plastic shopping bags should clearly mark the name of the manufacturer, standard number, specifications, nominal bearing and material information. The survey selected a number of large supermarkets in Beijing to provide paid plastic shopping bags, complete identification, but after testing it was found that there are serious problems with the thickness.

The survey showed that the thickness of plastic shopping bags in Wumart Mart Haidian Store, urban and rural storage supermarket, Huapu supermarket Wanshou Road store, Jingkelong Qingta Store and other supermarkets did not meet the regulations (less than 0.025mm, see table).

In addition, according to the relevant regulations, the rolled bags used to hold food in retail places have no carrying function and should be marked with the "QS" logo and the words "food". However, the investigation found that some large stores, such as Wal-Mart (Century City), did not have any information on the surface or inside the roll bags.

Farmers' market more than 90% violations

Survey found that, including Xinfadi, eastern suburb wholesale market, four Daokou aquatic products market, Yuegzhuang agricultural and sideline products wholesale market, including 10 farmers' market plastic shopping bags, nearly 40% of the logo is incomplete, Seventy percent of plastic shopping bags in the small commodity city are not fully marked. In terms of thickness, among the 14 samples of the top ten wholesale markets, only the Qinghe Town agricultural and sideline products market "specifications are 380× (250+55+55)× The thickness of 0.025 "plastic shopping bags is qualified, and the thickness of the remaining 13 samples is lower than 0.025mm, that is, more than 90% of the plastic shopping bags in the farmers' market are ultra-thin plastic shopping bags.

In addition, the 10 kinds of plastic bag thickness of the three small commodity cities of Jinfive star department store wholesale City, Tianyi small commodity wholesale market, and Tianzao tail goods Taobao City are not qualified, all for ultra-thin plastic shopping bags.