The plastic ban changed who
On January 8, 2008, the general office of the state council issued the notice on restricting the production and sale of plastic shopping bags. Since June 1, 2008, the production and sale of ultra-thin plastic bags have been banned nationwide and a system of paid use of plastic bags has been implemented.
Hebei xiongxian rongxing plastic factory director huang emboli said with emotion: "this notice was issued six years late!"
In 1907, the Belgian American chemist Leo baekeland invented the polymer resin, phenolic resin. It's hard to imagine what our lives would have been like without the first patch of brown plastic Leo developed.
Plastic bags, with their light weight and low price, greatly facilitate people's life, but also difficult to degrade, cause great harm to the ecological environment, so it plays the role of waste pollution.
Taking the supermarket industry in China as an example, the total amount of plastic packaging bags is over 400,000 tons annually, and the consumption cost is up to 5 billion yuan. And the waste plastic that enters the landfill with domestic waste every year accounts for 3% ~ 5% of the weight of landfill waste, most of which are waste plastic shopping bags. It is estimated that three tonnes of oil are needed for each tonne of plastic produced.
The move that plastic business changes
Li jianxiu, assistant general manager of xiongxian yutong plastics co., LTD, told reporters, "in 2007, the production of plastic bags has consumed 4.5 million tons of polyethylene, now crude oil is so tight, the state issued this policy is to give people and production enterprises some buffer period, otherwise the possibility of enterprise bankruptcy will be very large."
Panjin xingquan plastic distribution center in liaoning province is the agent of panjin city of all types of polyethylene company, is also the production of plastic bag enterprises upstream enterprises. The price of polyethylene has risen from 10,000 yuan a tonne a few months ago to 12,000 yuan a tonne as international crude oil prices have risen, according to Yang. The national "plastic limit order" will not affect the plastics industry, and the proportion of enterprises producing plastic bags for supermarkets is very small.
"These companies can consider producing biodegradable plastic bags and, if upgraded, plastic film for home appliances or agricultural greenhouses," Yang said.
There is no profit in the pay bag supermarket
After the notice of "paid use of plastic bags" was issued, the pricing of plastic bags attracted attention from all sides.
The reporter understands from the enterprise that produces plastic bag, the cost that produces a supermarket plus-size plastic bag is in 0.15 yuan. The middle dealer sells the super size plastic to supermarkets for 0.25 yuan, medium size for 0.2 yuan and small for 0.1 yuan.
"If the plastic bag charge is implemented, it will be good news for supermarkets and reduce the cost. Our company spends more than $1 million a year on plastic bags. Wuhan zhongshang parity supermarket, an official said.
In fact, many supermarkets have been promoting environmental awareness through activities. "In 2005, zhongshang parity made a series of environmental protection activities, made a batch of non-woven shopping bags and gave them to members and customers. "He said.
"A supermarket USES about 300,000 plastic bags per month for an average of 5,000 customers per day, using an average of two plastic bags per person." Huang lei, media manager of carrefour supermarket in central and western regions, said. "This is the most conservative estimate, based on non-holidays and the minimum amount of consumption per person." According to the xiongxian county, a long - term supplier of plastic bags to supermarkets, a large supermarket use at least 1 million more than a month.
Consumers should not think that supermarket plastic bags are really free. When plastic bags are used for free, the cost of the bags is actually attached to the goods. "Supermarkets provide consumers with free parking, free plastic bags and other services at a reasonable price."
Some experts think a plastic bag should be priced at 0.3 yuan. According to each plastic bag has about 0.05 yuan ~ 0.1 yuan of profit space, once plastic bags begin to levy fees, this part of the profits of the supermarket will be used in where?
"The specific pricing plan has not been worked out, but more money should be spent on store renovation and some environmental causes," huang said.
Beijing global village alliance "reduction model project" is responsible for the humanities HengFeng said in an interview, in 2007 in Beijing, tianjin, Shanghai, xiamen, nanjing and other eight cities to carry out the "green packaging I choose" project, a supermarket in xiamen university survey, each plastic bag in a dime a charge, reduce 3000 plastic bags found on the same day, fell by 90%.
Go to the government
The introduction of the "plastic limit order" has fired the first shot to control white pollution.
According to statistics, more than 3 billion plastic bags are used every day in China. One billion plastic bags are used every day just for shopping, which means nearly 1000 plastic bags are used per capita every year in China.
Since 1999, China has successively implemented measures in Beijing, Shanghai, tianjin, jiangsu, liaoning and other places to "stop providing free plastic bags in supermarkets" and use degradable plastic bags. However, due to the lack of relevant implementation rules, supermarkets are not unified implementation, consumer opposition, so can only be concluded.
Some environmental experts believe that the government should promote the awareness of green plastics. Let more people know the harmfulness of non-degradable plastics. The state should also clearly stipulate in the law that businesses that do not produce degradable plastic bags in the future, and shopping malls and consumers that do not use qualified environmental plastic bags, should bear corresponding legal responsibilities and be punished. Departments of industry and commerce, environmental protection and city environment and sanitation should cooperate with each other to strengthen supervision and control. Those who produce and sell plastics that do not meet the requirements should be investigated and dealt with according to law. To produce counterfeit and shoddy products of the enterprises to be more serious investigation, heavy punishment.
How are plastic bags made?
Imagine you're at walmart shopping. When you take the bag with the supermarket LOGO from the cashier, do you know how long it took for the bag to reach you? And you're not the terminal.
"" take Beijing as an example, most supermarket plastic bags in Beijing are produced by xiongxian county in hebei province." " Beijing tianyuan paper and plastic packaging paper and plastic products co. LTD. Manager wang said.
Mr. Li, who has been in charge of ordering plastic bags from middlemen at a supermarket in Beijing, counts the number of bags needed from each store each month before sending the orders to the middlemen. About half a million plastic bags are ordered at a time by a supermarket, and these orders are sent back to the plastic bag manufacturers in xiongxian. Middlemen order goods from three to five local enterprises, each 100,000 or so, so that both the quality of the goods and the price of the advantage.
In the early 1990s, Beijing's xidan shopping center, wal-mart, carrefour and other supermarkets used plastic bags are xiongxian rongxing plastic factory production.
After receiving the order, rongxing plastic factory purchased the raw material from the supplier. The raw material used is polyethylene. According to the quantitative size, upstream enterprises will be selected to purchase products. Generally, small amount of products will be purchased from local raw material suppliers in xiongxian county. If large amount, products will be purchased from companies like yanshan petrochemical co., LTD and qilu petrochemical co., LTD. "" one tonne of polyethylene is around 12,000 yuan, dozens of yuan cheaper than local raw material suppliers." " Said the head of a local plastics company.
From chemical plants to manufacturers, plastic bags changed from crude oil in the beginning to small white particles like fertilizer, completing its initial transformation.
Manufacturers blow small particles into plastic film, printing and cutting into finished plastic bags.
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Germany: plastic bags began to charge in 1991.
Austria: charging for plastic bags began in 1993.
South Korea: on February 22, 1999, the law came into effect, requiring all major department stores and supermarkets in the country to replace free plastic bags and paper shopping bags with a toll system.
Ireland: a charge of 0.15 euros per bag reduced the use of plastic bags by 90 percent. A levy of 0.22 euros began in 2007, using the levy as an environmental fund.
Norway: most people go out to shopping and bring their own plastic bags, because the shops provide them, but they pay for them.
San Francisco, USA: on January 25, 2005, 17 cents was levied on each plastic bag or paper shopping bag.
In countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, many large supermarkets charge customers 0.3 euros for each disposable plastic bag, of which 0.1 euros is the cost and 0.2 euros is the environmental tax.
France: Paris banned non-biodegradable plastic bags this year. Non-biodegradable plastic bags have been banned nationwide in France since New Year's day 2010.
