Chinanews.com, August 31. According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Treatment of Plastic Pollution in the Commercial Field" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice").
The "Notice" proposes that all localities should guide shopping malls, supermarkets and other places to promote the use of environmentally friendly cloth bags, paper bags and other non-plastic products and degradable plastic bags through incentives such as point rewards, encourage the installation of self-service and intelligent delivery devices, and promote the use of fresh food Product degradable packaging film (bag).
According to reports, as an important basic material, plastic is widely used in the field of trade and circulation.
In recent years, the consumption of plastic products, especially disposable plastic products, has continued to rise, bringing new challenges to environmental pollution control.
In order to implement the decision and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on plastic pollution control, and to do a solid job in the management of plastic pollution in the commercial field, and to ensure that the goals of plastic pollution control are completed on schedule, the relevant matters are notified as follows.
The first is to implement relevant regulations and requirements for banning and limiting plastics.
In April 2020, the 17th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress revised and passed the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste" (hereinafter referred to as the "Solid Waste Law") to treat plastic pollution in the business sector New responsibilities were given and new requirements were put forward.
In the first half of this year, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other departments successively issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Treatment of Plastic Pollution" (Fagai Huanzi (2020) No. 80), and the "Notice on Solidly Promoting Plastic Pollution Control" ( Development and Reform Office Huanzi (2020) No. 1146) and other policy documents set clear requirements for the phased tasks of banning and restricting plastics in the commercial field.
Local commercial authorities should focus on key areas such as shopping malls, supermarkets, bazaars, catering, accommodation, exhibitions, e-commerce, and accurately grasp the specific plastic bans and restrictions in the implementation areas and time nodes of different plastic products, and earnestly implement them. .
The second is to compact local territorial management responsibilities and industry management responsibilities.
All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) should implement responsibilities at various levels, further strengthen industry management, adhere to the strict ban on plastics and promote the green development of the industry, put forward practical and feasible governance measures based on the actual situation of the industry, and incorporate them into the provincial government implementation plan.
At the same time, it is necessary to supervise provincial capital cities, cities under separate state planning, and cities above the prefecture level to analyze and evaluate key and difficult issues in various fields, and study and propose specific measures to ensure that the goals and tasks of each stage in the region are completed.
The third is to do a good job of reporting on disposable plastic products.
According to Article 69 of the "Solid Waste Law", retail establishments, e-commerce platform companies, and takeaway companies should report the use and recycling of plastic bags and other disposable plastic products to the commerce department in accordance with relevant state regulations.
The Ministry of Commerce will separately formulate relevant regulations on the use and recycling of disposable plastic products in the commercial field, and establish a corresponding information reporting platform to facilitate local and enterprise reporting of information.
Local commercial authorities shall supervise and guide relevant enterprises to do a good job in reporting information, and summarize and report in a timely manner as required.
At the same time, it is necessary to announce the use and recycling of plastic products in the region in an appropriate manner and accept social supervision.
The fourth is to improve the supervision mechanism for business law enforcement.
The law enforcement team and functions are reserved in the competent commercial department, and the law enforcement duties assigned by the "Solid Waste Law" must be fulfilled in accordance with laws and regulations; where the law enforcement team and functions are assigned to the market supervision department, a sound work coordination mechanism must be established and comprehensive Law enforcement agencies do a good job in related work.
It is necessary to strengthen daily supervision and timely expose the problems found.
If any behaviors related to plastic environmental pollution and ecological destruction are discovered during supervision, the relevant clues shall be handed over to the comprehensive law enforcement team for ecological environmental protection in a timely manner.
The fifth is to strengthen policy support and guarantee.
Local commercial authorities should strengthen policy guidance, give full play to the policy-oriented role of planning, standards, and capital allocation in green shopping malls, green catering, e-commerce platforms, and recycling of renewable resources, and increase relevant requirements for plastic bans and restrictions to promote business The development of new models and new formats of plastic reduction in the field.
Guide shopping malls, supermarkets and other places to promote the use of environmentally friendly cloth bags, paper bags and other non-plastic products and degradable plastic bags through incentives such as point rewards, encourage the installation of self-service and intelligent placement devices, and promote the use of degradable packaging films (bags) for fresh products ).
Speed up the establishment of a centralized purchase and sale system for shopping bags in bazaars.
Promote the use of bio-based, biodegradable plastic bags and other alternative products such as straw-coated lunch boxes that meet the performance and food safety requirements in the field of food delivery.
Strengthen the management of merchants stationed in e-commerce, takeaway and other platform companies, formulate implementation plans for reducing the amount of disposable plastic products, and promote recyclable, easily recyclable, and degradable alternative products.
Sixth, strengthen publicity and guidance.
Local commercial authorities must earnestly implement the new development concept, increase publicity for plastic pollution control, organize industry associations, market entities, etc. to make full use of traditional media such as radio and television, and new media such as Weibo and WeChat to further publicize relevant laws. Regulations and related requirements of plastic bans and plastic restrictions advocate a simple, moderate, green and low-carbon life concept and lifestyle.