"White pollution" is shocking

For the majority of Suining citizens, plastic bags have become an indispensable part of life. Whether it is shopping on the street or shopping on the market, sellers will take the initiative to use plastic bags to help you install. However, few people realize the hazards of plastic bags. The price we paid for this convenience was beyond our expectation. "White pollution" has become increasingly serious and it has reached a point where it cannot be ruled. Citizen: I don't know if the plastic bags are harmful. On the morning of June 3, reporters came to the city district. The red light farmer's market often presents a lively and prosperous scene. Many citizens go out with large bags of fresh vegetables. The reporter asked a member of the public to buy vegetables to pick up the vegetable basket? She said that whatever food is being bought at the moment, the sellers will use plastic bags to hold you in place. “You don’t need to bring your own food basket at all.” said a woman named Zeng, she said that she used plastic bags to buy food less than a decade ago. Never heard of plastic bags can cause pollution. The reporter turned around in the farmers' market and only saw two "vegetable baskets." One is a cloth pocket held in the hands of an old grandmother. She said that her son working in Beijing told her that using plastic bags is not good for things that affect her health. The other is a colorful woven basket. The owner is a retired doctor from the Municipal People's Hospital. When a reporter asked why she did not use plastic bags, Ms. Zhang worriedly said that the environmental pollution caused by plastic bags was too great. We all lived on the same earth. Care and concern for the environment were the responsibility of everyone. At the door of the farmers' market, a Grandpa Liao said that it is not a very difficult task to provide vegetables in practical baskets. It is only now that plastic bags are so convenient everywhere that people can bring convenience to themselves. Who will refuse? Fast food restaurant: The disposable lunch box is still at 7:00 pm on June 3rd. The reporter went to the unannounced visit outside Suining II. The owner of a small restaurant is busy preparing fast food lunches. There is a stack of foam plastic lunch boxes on the table beside the cooking stove. No one person expressed disagreement with the restaurant offering such tableware. Many students took the lunch box and ate it in the vicinity. The reporter asked: “Is the foamed tableware not allowed to be used?” The boss began to feel very nervous. Later, after the reporter assured him not to mention his name, he spit it out quickly: “In fact, I do not want to use this kind of plastic lunch box. , Who does not want a good environment, but the cost of paper lunch boxes and degradable lunch boxes is too high, disposable foam plastic lunch boxes are less than a dime, paper lunch boxes and degradable lunch boxes are more than 2 corners.You think, a Box lunch is only three or four yuan, two boxes will be five corners." The time passed and the people who had eaten left. The used foam plastic lunch boxes were thrown on the floor at random, and the restaurant's garbage basket was filled with foamed tableware. A sanitation worker told reporters that such “white trash” can be seen everywhere in parks, streets, and residential areas, causing them to feel a headache. In addition to these fast food restaurants using foam plastic tableware, some relatively upscale hotels and restaurants are also used. They are also using a disposable foam plastic lunch box when they pack the guests. According to environmental experts, the so-called "white pollution" is an image of people's environmental pollution of plastic waste. It refers to the use of polystyrene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride and other polymer compounds made of various types of living plastic products are disposed of into solid waste after use. Due to random littering, and difficult to degrade, it caused severe environmental pollution in the city. Related Links There are serious problems in the production, use, and recycling of disposable foam plastic tableware. Some foaming agents used in the production process will destroy the atmospheric ozone layer, and some will cause serious safety problems. When the temperature reaches 65 degrees Celsius or above, harmful substances will infiltrate into the food, causing damage to the human liver, kidneys, and central nervous system. Damage; discarded after use, causing serious environmental pollution, buried in soil and difficult to degrade, will cause soil and groundwater pollution, and recycling and processing is very difficult.

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