The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment this year issued a guideline on further strengthening plastic Pollution control, calling for a nationwide ban on the use of non-biodegradable disposable plastic straws by the end of 2020.On June 30, McDonald's China announced that nearly 1,000 restaurants in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen were the first to stop using plastic straws, while fine-tuning the lid design.Habitual straws will be banned soon.
Starbucks and McDonald's have begun to adjust
On July 20 and 21, the reporter visited a number of beverage stores and starbucks, McDonald's, KFC and other stores in the city.Our survey found that some of the merchants are still unaware of the updated plastic bag limit, but McDonald's and Starbucks have taken corresponding measures.
On the afternoon of July 21, the reporter visited McDonald's and Starbucks coffee and found that they had made corresponding countermeasures to ban plastic straws.
McDonald's Wanda store, pedestrian street store and three Gorges Global Port and other stores, the reporter saw, although the two outlets to take the dining table is still as before set up two straw boxes, which are placed in the disposable plastic straw.However, the box is obscured by advertisements such as "Take out food and enjoy it as soon as possible", making it difficult to find the box.At the same time, milk and other drinks in the store have been replaced with a new lid, you can drink directly without a straw.
McDonald's Wanda told reporters that since Yichang is not the first city to stop using disposable plastic straws, the company is also temporarily offering disposable plastic straws.However, the company has been preparing for the implementation. Currently, it has ordered the enterprises that produce paper straws. The replacement of disposable plastic straws will be completed by then, and a slogan advocating the use of paper straws will be set up in the store before the paper straws are put on shelves.The reporter saw, storefront mobile phone orders WeChat public number and official website, also have to persuade everyone to reduce the use of plastic straw content push.
In the Starbucks coffee shop in Wanda Plaza, the reporter saw that paper straws have been used in the store, and customers in the store have been used to using paper straws.
Many Expressed the alternative materials is willing to choose
A resident surnamed Liu said she prefers drinking milk tea and generally USES plastic straws, but welcomed the ban on non-biodegradable disposable plastic straws."The plastic bag limit has been introduced in Yichang for several years, and my whole family has been used to shopping in supermarkets without plastic bags whenever possible.The white pollution is very serious. Now the plastic limit has been upgraded. In the future, I think it is inevitable that milk tea straws can be replaced with environmentally friendly materials."Like Ms. Liu, Mr. Chen is used to picking up plastic straws from the store when he's out drinking.But he said, "I don't think it makes a big difference that straws can be replaced with more environmentally friendly materials, but for the sake of protecting the environment, I will try my best to drink directly without straws."
Citizen Zhang Yran used a paper straw provided by Starbucks."Paper straws are acceptable to me and feel fine."
The department of Sanitation is calling for a reduction in the use of Plastic products
"As the ban has not been fully promoted yet, we are also keeping an eye on the relevant policies, and through the Three Gorges Evening News we are calling on people to reduce the use of plastic products.""Said MAO Shegao, director of the municipal Urban management Committee's sanitation department.
Yichang city living garbage classification work leading group office XuanJiangTuan lecturer ZhaiXiao yun said, a non-biodegradable plastic bags or plastic straw, the service life of it might only be a few minutes, but nature completely eliminate its harm is more than 400 years, hope people in daily life, try to avoid the plastic garbage.Most plastic waste is not biodegradable, so it is difficult to treat and is called "white pollution", she said. The retention of plastic in the soil not only affects the absorption of nutrients and water by crops, resulting in land loss;When it is incinerated together with other wastes, it will produce harmful gases, which not only pollute the air, but also affect human health.Some industry insiders and experts also said that with the breakthrough of new materials and new technologies, it is not difficult to replace plastic straws with environmental protection.
Similar events have been taking place in China, and no matter who comes first, they will be implemented in all parts of China sooner or later. With the strengthening of the awareness of environmental protection among the Chinese people, they are also actively cooperating with the national urban environmental protection construction.
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