Plastic ban science Why plastic ban, plastic limit?

One cucumber, two garlic, three peppers,

Although it's not much,

People still choose to use transparent hand-torn plastic bags,

Sort them, pack them, weigh them, label them.

Maybe some people are still complaining about the lack of plastic bags

I thought it would be inconvenient, but I said it anyway

The "war" of banning and limiting plastic

It is already imminent

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Why should plastic be banned and limited?

Take a look at this data set

On average, one million plastic bags are consumed around the world every minute

The world consumes 400 million tons of plastic every year

China consumes more than 60 million tons

Only 14% of plastic packaging is currently recycled globally

Only 10% is effectively recycled

About 8 million tons of plastic waste enters the ocean every year

All together, you can circle the Earth 420 times

2

How scary is plastic waste?

Over 100,000 Marine animals a year

Died after becoming entangled in or ingesting a plastic bag

Their living space is overrun by garbage

The food was filled with garbage

Because maybe a garbage

It could lead to the extinction of Marine life

These are thrown into the ocean

It takes 200 to 1000 years for plastic bags to degrade

Plastic landfills take up a lot of land,

And the soil of the occupied land was polluted and could not be restored for a long time

A crane trapped in artificial plastic waste

A sea turtle twisted by a plastic ring

The polar bear who mistook plastic waste for food

Marine animals that live in garbage dumps

An animal that accidentally got into a plastic sheath and starved to death

3

Why is there so much plastic waste?

Plastic is an important base material,

It is widely used in our social production and residents' life

Consumers don't mind spending an extra two or three cents

Plastic bags, cheap and convenient

"Alternatives" are less attractive

Plastic bags can also hold garbage after goods

4

Where does that plastic waste you throw away end up?

About 8 million tons of plastic waste is dumped into the ocean every year

Writing in the British journal Scientific Reports, scientists said

There are more than 80,000 tons of garbage floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,

Mainly plastic bottles, plastic bags and other plastic products,

These "plastic monsters" cover nearly 1.6 million square kilometers,

It's shocking!

For us humans

Do not regulate the production, use and disposal of plastics

It wastes resources and energy,

Bring ecological environmental pollution, increase the pressure on resources and environment

It may even affect people's health and safety.

Currently solve a series of problems caused by plastic waste

One of the options is to ban plastic, plastic limit!

5

"Plastic restriction Order" is not "plastic ban order"

China's annual output of plastics is 30 million tons

Consumption of more than 6 million tons

The annual plastic waste is more than 1 million tons

Waste plastics make up 40% of the waste

A lot of discarded plastic is buried in the ground as garbage

It's unimaginable

Before the "plastic restriction Order" was issued in 2008

Chinese people use 1 billion plastic bags to buy groceries every day

Other kinds of plastic bags are more than 2 billion a day

That's at least two plastic bags per person per day

And after the restriction,

By 2016, according to the statistics of relevant departments

Supermarkets and shopping malls use fees and so on

Plastic bag use is down by two-thirds

A total reduction of 1.4 million tons of plastic shopping bags

This is equivalent to a reduction of nearly 30 million tons of carbon dioxide

In life,

After the implementation of the plastic restriction order

Many citizens voluntarily use cloth bags instead of plastic bags

And many people are willing to pay for plastic bags provided by the supermarket

Ms. Fan is an ordinary citizen in her 30s

She told me

She spends money on a few plastic bags at the supermarket every week

In her opinion

This environment-friendly plastic bag that meets national standards is very good for storing kitchen waste

If we don't use these plastic bags for garbage

You also need to purchase additional garbage bags

The garbage bags sold on the market vary in quality

Some small manufacturers of plastic bags do not meet the requirements of environmental protection

It is better to use plastic bags provided by supermarkets for environmental protection

This time, the Beijing government banned the production and sale of ultra-thin plastic bags from the source

She was very supportive.

It is believed that only in this way can the further expansion of white pollution be controlled from the source

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How to reduce plastic waste to protect the environment

Start with these 10 simple things

◆ Prepare a reusable shopping bag and bring it whenever you go shopping.

Limit the amount of bottled water you drink, preferably a reusable water bottle. Statistics show that more than 1 million bottles of drinking water are sold every minute. Bottled water is one of the main sources of plastic waste.

◆ Ditch disposable coffee cups and buy a nice and practical thermos cup. Disposable coffee cup LIDS are mostly plastic products.

Avoid chewing gum, as it contains plastic and is definitely not recyclable.

◆ Avoid using washing products containing plastic microbeads. Plastic microbeads are solid plastic particles with a diameter of less than 5 mm, which are widely used in toothpaste, facial cleanser, shower gel and other washing products. Microbeads can pollute the environment and damage the Marine ecology.

◆ No disposable razors.

◆ Replace plastic containers with cardboard boxes.

◆ Use sealed cans, crisper boxes to store food, discard the use of plastic bags.

◆ No plastic straws. If necessary, choose a paper straw or an edible straw made from seaweed.

In life

We'll wait and see.

Hope on the road to combating white pollution

We work together to enforce the Plastic restriction Order.

Make white pollution less and less

Our environment is getting cleaner and cleaner