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Original title: Focus on six major industries, Beijing publishes “10 plastic restrictions”
Source: Beijing Commercial Daily
On December 24, the “Beijing Action Plan for the Control of Plastic Pollution (2020-2025)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Action Plan”) was officially published, describing in detail the path of plastics control. plastics in Beijing within five years from ten aspects. Within five years, Beijing will focus on six key industries such as catering and e-commerce, strictly control the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and reduce the use of non-degradable disposable plastic products. At the same time, promote the offer of alternative technologies and products, and promote the recycling and recycling of plastic waste. The “Action Plan” will work with garbage classification to systematically control “white pollution”.
Strengthen plastics reduction efforts
The Action Plan targets six key industries, including catering, food delivery platforms, wholesale and retail, e-commerce express delivery, lodging and display, and agricultural production, to strengthen plastic reduction efforts and strictly control the leakage of disposable plastic products into the natural environment.
Among them, by the end of 2020, non-degradable disposable plastic straws are banned in the catering industry in the city, non-degradable plastic bags are banned for take-out services (including dinner packaging) in built-up areas, and non-degradable disposable plastic bags are prohibited for dinner services in built-up areas and scenic spots. Plastic tableware; By the end of June 2021, the city’s catering industry will ban the use of non-degradable disposable plastic coffee stirrer rods.
The journalist noted that compared to the November draft, the “Action Plan” adjusted the ban on non-degradable disposable plastic coffee stirrers to 2021, taking into account the actual situation of coffee stirrer inventory digestion of catering companies and the replacement product procurement cycle. At the end of June 2008, a 6-month buffer period was added.
At the same time, the takeout platform is encouraged to set options such as “no tableware” in the order link, and rewards are awarded in the form of points. Encourage takeout platforms to increase publicity and guide consumers to choose by issuing “exclusive green coupons” platforms; For the express delivery industry, the city’s express delivery points are required by the end of 2025 to prohibit the use of non-degradable plastic tape.
Ma Jun, director of the Beijing Center for Public and Environmental Research, believes that with the development of new business formats, plastic pollution in the past has not been cured and the problem of plastic waste caused by electronic commerce and takeout continues to rise. Therefore, more stringent “plastic restrictions” are required. necessary.
In everyday life, it is not uncommon for consumers to ask for “no tableware” and merchants still deliver disposable tableware. Ma Jun told the Beijing Business Daily reporter: “Plastic governance must find the right way. One of the ways is to seize the leader, because it produces a lot of plastic and has a very strong resource capacity. We have a system. and a platform to extend producer responsibility. There is also an extension of responsibility for plastic governance. “
In addition, for the wholesale and retail industry, the Action Plan requires that by the end of 2020, retail stores in the urbanized areas of Beijing, such as shopping malls, supermarkets, pharmacies, bookstores, etc., ban the use of plastic bags non-degradable and market regulations and restrictions on the use of non-degradable plastic bags. . By the end of 2025, the use of non-degradable plastic bags will be banned from the market in urbanized Beijing.
By the end of 2020, the use of non-degradable plastic bags will be banned in various exhibitions and displays held in the urbanized areas of Beijing; In agricultural production, by the end of 2022, government-supported and market-led recycling of agricultural film waste, pesticides and fertilizer packaging waste will be basically established. In the disposal system, the recovery rate of the agricultural film will reach more than 90%; By the end of 2025, the accommodation industry will gradually expand the scope of the non-proactive provision of disposable products and expand the scope of implementation to country houses.
Phased implementation
The action plan presents a three-phase objective. In the first phase until 2022, take the opportunity to host the Beijing Winter Olympics to formulate and organize the implementation of the Beijing Winter Olympics work plan for the control of plastic pollution. By then, Beijing’s standard plastic pollution control policy and system will be initially established, plastic pollution control measures will be fully implemented in key areas, the consumption of disposable plastic products will be significantly reduced, and products will be promoted. alternative.
From the second stage until 2023, plastic pollution will be basically eliminated in key places and along the key lines of the city, and basic systems such as reporting by key units of plastic use will be established. It is reported that the reporting system for key units using plastic will be tested in municipal party and government agencies, supermarket chains and other fields in advance to establish a reporting system for the use of disposable plastic products in key units using plastic, and gradually improve according to the pilot situation.
From the third stage until 2025, the plastic pollution control system will be fully established, the scientific and technological support system will be more comprehensive, and basically the good social customs of the low-plastic life will be formed, and we will strive to become in an international model of plastic pollution control in big cities.
Since the beginning of this year, the high-level design of plastic pollution control in China has been continuously improved. In January, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the “Opinions on a further strengthening of the treatment of plastic pollution” (hereinafter, the “Opinions”). According to the three periods of 2020, 2022 and 2025, plastic pollution will be promoted step by step and by field. The general management of the work requires that by 2020, the production, sale and use of some plastic products are prohibited and restricted in some regions and areas.
In July, the National Development and Reform Commission and nine other departments jointly issued the “Notice on Strong Promotion of Plastic Pollution Control”, focusing on the “Opinions” to present the goals and tasks to be completed by the end of 2020, and propose measures to implement the relevant key tasks one by one. And clarified the responsible unit.
“Plastic pollution control tasks should strengthen the management of the entire chain, from production, circulation, use, recycling and other links, and prohibit the production, circulation and use of a batch of plastic products Disposables difficult to recycle and easy to filter, and replace a batch of non-degradable disposable plastic products once. A batch of new packaging and logistics vehicles need to be recycled. At the same time, it is necessary to establish a strong and efficient recycling system, standardize the utilization of waste plastic materials and greatly increase the energy utilization ratio of plastic waste, “said Tang Dengjie, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission.
Combine waste sorting
As Tang Dengjie said, in addition to reducing the amount of use, an efficient recycling system is also an important way to avoid plastic pollution. It is worth mentioning that Beijing has promoted the establishment of a “1 + 1 + N” plastic pollution control policy system to strengthen systematic governance. Including the “Beijing Plastic Pollution Control Action Plan” released this time and the “Municipal Household Waste Management Regulations” officially implemented on May 1 this year.
“N” refers to a series of work plans and special rules, and 7 items have been issued so far, including the “Notice on conducting special repair actions for plastic bags” issued by the Office of Supervision of the Municipal Market and “Beijing 2020 Agriculture” Work Plan for Waste Recycling and Disposal of Inputs “etc.
The “Beijing Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulation” clearly requires the city to prohibit the production and sale of ultra-thin plastic bags, product retail places should not use ultra-thin plastic bags, should not provide plastic bags plastic for free, and catering and hotel operators should not actively provide disposable tableware, etc. Provided local laws and regulations for the city’s plastic pollution control work.
“Remediation of plastic pollution can be well integrated with garbage classification,” Ma Jun told a reporter from the Beijing Business Daily. “Plastic garbage must be recovered with high quality. It cannot be said that it is mixed with various types of oil pollution to solve the problem of plastic treatment in the last mile.” “The problem. Beijing has implemented waste sorting since May. General progress has been made and progress can continue into the future. If waste sorting is done right, there is a solution for plastic waste. Plastic recycling high value collects in a closed loop “. Those with low added value and those that nobody wants to collect can be collected through limited subsidies. “
Song Guojun, a professor at the School of Environment of Renmin University of China, also believes that it is necessary to strengthen the recycling of plastics. Statistics show that only about 10% of plastics currently recycled in the world. Song Guojun told a reporter for the Beijing Business Daily: “As far as I know, from a technology and cost perspective, 100% of plastics can be recycled. If all of them are recycled, plastic pollution will no longer exist. That all It is also a good option to use plastic products sparingly and replace plastics with other items, but the cost of substitutes should be less than that of plastics. “
Beijing Business Daily Reporter Tao Feng Wang Chenting
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