In the global plastic ban on today, degradable plastic is also banned in the EU today
In the context of the global plastic ban, it was the idea of replacing disposable plastic with biodegradable plastic. Fully naturally biodegradable molded fiber products seem to have a small share in front of the powerful biodegradable plastics.
However, the degradation of biodegradable plastics is conditional. The degradable plastics need to be recycled and compost to fully degrade. But only things of value can be recycled effectively. Generally, biodegradable plastics will be brittle after 6 months, lose the value of reuse, and there is no recycling value.
Because degradable plastic can not completely natural degradation characteristics, actually became one of the culprits of white pollution. Biodegradable plastic was also banned in the European Union since 3 July.
molded fiber products are truly naturally biodegradable and environmentally friendly products and are currently the only viable alternative to some plastic products.
Italian Chinese Street reports on ∶Starting on 3 July, EU Member States will have to say goodbye to the use of disposable and biodegradable plastic, and the Commission has ruled that they cannot be put into the EU market because the Commission believes plastic is harmful to marine life, biodiversity and our health, reducing the use of disposable plastic supplies can help protect the health of humans and the planet. This policy may have a great impact on the lives and work of our Chinese and street friends.
Let's take a look at what items after July 3 will gradually be ∶ replaced by sustainable alternatives such as parties, balloons, bottle caps under 3 liters, polystyrene foam cups, disposable tableware, straws, plates, the only products allowed to be used only to be reused.
The food packaging industry will also be forced to transform, food packaging no longer uses biodegradable plastic, only paper (more ideal with pulp).
There are also sanitary napkins, tampons, wet wipes, bags, cotton swabs. The filters of cigarettes will change, and the fishing industry will ban plastic tools (according to Greenpeace, 640,000 tons of fishing nets and tools are discarded in the ocean, in fact the damage. ) These products will take different measures, such as reducing their consumption, producers pay "pollution fees" to control.
Of course, such measures have also caused criticism and controversy in many countries, as the move will also cause a huge blow to 160,000 jobs in the entire plastic industry in Italy and the entire plastic industry. And Italy is fighting its last resistance, when Ecological Transformation Minister Roberto Cingolani has attacked ∶ "The EU's strange definition of plastic ban is that you can only use biodegradable plastics, while our country takes the lead in biodegradable plastics and cannot use them, because there is an absurd directive saying" only recycled plastics."
This may also affect the export of Chinese small commodities, and the future export of plastic products to the EU countries may be restricted and material requirements. The European Union does attach great importance to the protection of the environment, so there are so many famous beaches, beautiful and clear seas, and lush forests. I don 't know that street friends have noticed that fast food, such as McDonald' s, has quietly replaced plastic straws and cup caps with paper caps and paper straws. Maybe people may be uncomfortable in the early implementation of the measures, but it will gradually be accepted and become the norm.
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