A few days ago, Nanning City market supervision Bureau in the city to carry out the "plastic limit" special rectification action, in order to effectively promote energy conservation and environmental protection work, Nanning Municipal Supervision Bureau of the production enterprises, supermarkets, farmers' markets and commodity retail points within the jurisdiction of the sales, the use of ultra-thin plastic bags, free plastic bag shopping violations were corrected and investigated.

Before this, the Shenzhen market Supervision Bureau has also carried out many special rectification actions to limit plastic in the city, and will limit plastic as an important assessment index to create a civilized city and market upgrading and transformation. In 2018, the city investigated and dealt with more than 1.5 million unqualified plastic bags, in the first three quarters of 2019, the whole system sampled 123 batches of shopping bags, investigated and dealt with 289 cases of plastic restrictions, investigated and dealt with more than 3 million unqualified plastic shopping bags, and fined 123,300 yuan, compared with last year, these data have increased to varying degrees.

11 years after the introduction of the plastic limit order, plastic bags are still proudly firmly rooted in the market circulation field, and the situation of shopping to obtain free plastic bags is still widespread, and the restriction of ultra-thin plastic bags continues to be repeatedly banned in repeated failures.

In June 2008, China's national standard for plastic bags officially began to implement, which "plastic shopping bags of environmental protection, safety and identification of general technical requirements" mentioned that the minimum thickness of plastic shopping bags should not be less than 0.025 mm, which is to define whether the plastic bag is "ultra-thin" class of standards. This kind of plastic bags with polyvinyl chloride as raw materials, especially in breakfast, farmers' markets and other places are the most common.

Why are ultra-thin plastic bags repeatedly banned?

Some people may want to ask, ultra-thin plastic bags use less plastic raw materials and should be more easily degraded, but why should they be banned?

In fact, the recycling value of ultra-thin plastic bags is very low, and because they are too thin, the reuse value is also very low, inevitably causing a waste of resources. And ultra-thin plastic bags in the natural conditions are not easy to degrade, into the natural environment may cause soil compaction, water pollution, combustion of harmful gases will also cause pollution to the atmosphere.

More importantly, ultra-thin plastic bags have great potential harm to the human body. The manufacturers of ultra-thin plastic bags are often small workshops that do not have the production qualifications. The raw materials used in the production of plastic bags are not compliant, and may come from discarded medical plastics, aldehydes, toxic plastics containing heavy metals, etc. There are a large number of bacteria and toxins in these non-food raw and auxiliary materials, and the production process cannot kill these pathogenic factors. And recycled plastics of heavy metals, plasticizer content is also high, non-compliant production can not make the product meet national standards. In contact with or containing food, the toxic substances in the plastic bag will be transferred to the contact, especially the hot food, high temperature will make the movement of molecules more active, and the oil in the food will also make the poison easier to precipitate, easy to cause harm to the body.

Polish your eyes, teach you to identify the poison bag

A look, look at the color. Non-toxic plastic bags are transparent or translucent, pure color, no particles, uniform texture, try not to choose to use colored plastic bags.

Two listen, listen to the sound. Qualified plastic bags sound crisp, on the contrary, if the sound is dull, it may belong to toxic plastic bags.

Three touches, touch the surface. The surface of good plastic bags should be smooth, while inferior plastic bags may be sticky, astringent, and waxy.

Four smell, smell the smell. Good plastic bags should be odorless or there is a trace of plastic smell, if the smell of the bag is found to be pungent or the smell sticks to other objects after contact, it is a poison bag.

Wuyaki, burning bag corner. Qualified plastic bags are easy to burn, and the melted plastic drops, and will have a normal plastic burning smell. And toxic plastic bags are often not easy to burn, leaving the flame will be extinguished, burning will produce black smoke, smell pungent.

In addition, if it is a plastic bag for food, remember to look for the production license sign. Since October last year, the food "QS" mark has been completely cancelled, in 2015 the newly revised "Food Safety Law" began to implement, after a 3-year transition period, the new "SC" mark officially became a new food production license mark.

Conclusion: Different plastic restriction measures are being implemented all over the country, and behind the surface of some results, the phenomenon of businesses providing free ultra-thin plastic bags is still widespread. As a consumer, to recognize the harm caused by unqualified plastic bags, do not because of convenience, and in exchange for good health. When the awareness of residents increases, the demand market shrinks, perhaps the situation of poison bags will be alleviated.

Reference: People's Daily Online, Nanfang News, Nanning Evening News, Douding net

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