Now, buying things, ordering takeout, can be done on the Internet with a few points. As the weather gets cold, the cat can order a takeaway at home, which is convenient and convenient. However, this "one meal" time has brought many problems.

lunch box used up to throw caused "white pollution"

Point take-out gradually become a trend, also blew up the "white pollution" wind, office buildings, schools, residential areas have become the take-out lunch box "white pollution" disaster areas. The reporter randomly walked into a large office building, after lunch, the dustbin has been "white garbage" completely occupied.

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< BR /> > > According to the statistics of the three take-out platforms, white-collar workers account for 60% of the ordering population, most of which order 4 to 7 times a week on average. And white-collar workers are also high consumption customers in the take-out industry, and more than 80% of the total take-out sales come from white-collar workers. And this undoubtedly makes large and small office buildings become the worst disaster area of take-out waste. Especially many businesses in order to save costs, most of the use of disposable plastic lunch boxes.

take-away boxes can pile more than 330 Mount Everest a day high < p> Take-away boxes The amount of garbage is amazing, According to estimates, China only a day take-away boxes piled up, can reach more than 330 Mount Everest so high. According to the data of the three takeout platforms, it is estimated that in 2017, the annual scale of online food and beverage takeout users is about 300 million, and the total daily order volume of the three takeout platforms is about 20 million. So, how much white waste will this bring?

If each takeaway uses 1 plastic bag, each plastic bag 0.06 square meters, the plastic bag used every day can cover an area of 1.2 million square meters, covering 168 football fields. On the other hand, the data of the lunch box is also shocking, environmental organizations calculate the average consumption of about 3 lunch boxes (cups) per single takeaway, about 60 million waste lunch boxes (cups) per day, according to a takeaway lunch box 5 cm height calculation, a day of take-out lunch box usage pile up can reach more than 330 Mount Everest height.

Embarrassing! Take-out lunch box recycling was rejected

Take-out lunch box garbage, causing such a big waste and pollution, then, can the used lunch box be recycled? The reporter tried to send the lunch box waste to the recycling station, but was blocked outside.

According to statistics, at present, only 14% of China's plastic packaging has been recycled, and take-out lunch boxes only account for a small part of them, since it is rarely recycled, as a recycling renewable plastic lunch boxes have gone to where? The reporter went to a garbage sorting station on the outskirts of Beijing.

Mostly landfill or incineration pollution difficult to degrade

> Originally, takeout garbage into the treatment of China's waste sanitation system, most of the landfill or incineration. Experts pointed out that the mixed waste incineration is easy to produce harmful gases, and landfills take hundreds of years to decompose.

Waste plastic recycling Beijing Shenzhen has subsidies

How to deal with take-out lunch box processing is difficult, recycling is difficult? Experts said that at present, for the recycling of waste plastics and other renewable resources, Beijing and Shenzhen have corresponding subsidy mechanisms. At the same time, it is also necessary to establish industry norms, and only standard subdivision can effectively recycle. Experts pointed out that if enterprises want to recycle, it is too expensive to put into environmentally friendly and pollution-free treatment system, so this kind of takeaway waste is generally incinerated. Companies seek to survive, leading to recycling only high-profit waste. Therefore, at present, only Beijing and Shenzhen in China have corresponding subsidy mechanisms for recycling waste plastics and other renewable resources. However, due to the different positioning and costs of shops in the market, the source and composition of disposable plastic tableware materials are too complex to be conducive to recycling.

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