Goodbye, plastic straws! Starting today, your straws for drinking milk tea have changed! The market order "explodes"...
In response to the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Control of Plastic Pollution" issued by the relevant state departments to reduce the pollution of plastic products to the social environment, many large shopping malls in Shanghai have stopped using non-degradable plastic shopping bags from today.
Not only plastic bags,
but today is also
the first day the national ban on plastic straws takes effect
.
At the beginning of 2020, the state issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Treatment of Plastic Pollution". By the end of 2020, the catering industry across the country will prohibit the use of non-degradable disposable plastic straws.
New Year's first day
maritime
super disable non-degradable plastic bags
The reporter found in a large supermarket in Shanghai that there are no more traditional plastic shopping bags here, all replaced with recyclable and biodegradable non-woven bags.
It is understood that as early as October 2020, Shanghai Municipality issued the "Shanghai Implementation Plan on Further Strengthening Plastic Pollution Control", requiring that by the end of 2020, shopping malls, supermarkets, pharmacies and other places ban the use of disposable plastic shopping bags, food and beverage packaging, The use of non-degradable plastic shopping bags for takeaway services is prohibited, and offenders will be investigated according to law.
The reporter visited many large supermarkets such as Carrefour and RT-Mart. The cashier of the supermarket began to provide a large number of recyclable non-woven bags. In addition, the supermarket said that it had ordered biodegradable plastic shopping bags, but due to tight supply, they have not yet arrived in large quantities. goods.
It is worth mentioning that the reporter found that the number of customers who bring their own shopping bags in the supermarket is obviously more than before.
In this regard, some consumers told reporters that compared with the previous plastic shopping bags, the non-woven bags and biodegradable plastic bags that are now promoted are much more expensive, so they will consider bringing their own shopping bags when they go out shopping recently.
First day of the ban on plastic straws
Restaurants have switched to biodegradable straws
Are there any plastic straws currently on the market?
Do consumers recognize the degradable straws?
When the reporter visited various catering shops on the streets of Shanghai, he found that many large catering companies, including milk tea shops and coffee shops of various brands, no longer provide disposable plastic straws.
Most of them have
replaced paper straws, and some have changed to poly Lactic acid degradable straws, and some of them are replaced by cup lids that can be used directly.
Not only the milk tea shops that young people love,
but also fast food restaurants, roast coffee shops and other catering companies have also begun to use paper straws and polylactic acid biodegradable straws.
Chen Shi, head of
public relations and communications
for
a catering company :
In fact, we have started using biodegradable paper straws in stores across the country since September 2020. The plan is to suspend the supply of all plastic straws by the end of 2020.
Zhu Jingwen, manager of the Shanghai operation area of a catering company:
100% of Starbucks stores in China have stopped providing plastic straws. This measure can help us reduce the use of approximately 200 tons of plastic each year.
On the other hand, some consumers believe that the milk tea shop has changed the straws, although the price has not changed, but the taste has some subtle changes, and some paper straws will become soft during use.
Biodegradable straws
cost
three to five times higher than plastic straws
Banning the use of disposable plastic straws has spawned a large number of market demand for biodegradable straws.
At present, there are mainly two types of degradable straws commonly promoted in the market, one is a
paper straw
, and the other is a
polylactic acid degradable straw
.
What are the differences between these two straws and traditional disposable plastic straws?
What is the current market supply situation?
In the exhibition room of a large straw production company in Yiwu, Zhejiang, a variety of paper straws and polylactic acid biodegradable straws are neatly placed here.
The person in charge told reporters that as early as 2018, the company had invested half of its production capacity into the production of biodegradable straws. Because of the difference in materials and production technology, the current production cost of biodegradable straws is significantly higher than that of traditional disposable plastic straws.
The cost of a ton of disposable plastic straws is around 8,000 yuan, while a ton of paper straws costs nearly 22,000 yuan.
Lou Zhongping, chairman of a straw production company in Yiwu City, Zhejiang:
Generally speaking, the overall average cost of pulp straws is about three times more expensive than plastic straws. If it is better, it may be five times more expensive.
Polylactic acid is more expensive, usually five to six times more expensive than plastic straws.
This kind of straw is a degradable polylactic acid straw. Under the condition of composting,
this kind of straw will be degraded in only 90 days
, and generally speaking, it will disappear.
Polylactic acid biodegradable straws are produced from corn, sugarcane and other crops through a series of complex processes.
The light green straw in the picture is one of them. According to reports, it has been placed here for more than 20 days, and the surface has begun to gradually decompose.
In fact, most factories still have technical difficulties for this new type of straws, and they are still not popular.
Strong demand and insufficient total supply have forced many downstream straw distributors to face
queues
for
orders
.
Yao Xinhong, a food and beverage distributor in Shanghai:
Recently there have been a lot of orders. Previously, orders were placed at 200 boxes. Recently, the orders have been tightly arranged. One delivery has now grown to 500 boxes, and it has been scheduled to mid-February.
General manager of Zhejiang Yiwu, a large straw production company Lee Bridge, told reporters in Hainan since December 2020 has begun to implement the ban on plastic straw, the moment has come into effect in the country in recent months,
industrial
plant orders received amount Showing explosive growth, orders have been scheduled to April
.
To this end, the company is speeding up capacity conversion.
Data shows that in 2019, the cumulative output of plastic products nationwide was 81.84 million tons, of which plastic straws were nearly 30,000 tons, or about 46 billion.
Analysts believe that the formal implementation of the ban on plastic straws will bring a huge increase in the actual demand for degradable straws.
In addition,
market participants suggest that the promotion of degradable straws does not mean that they can be discarded at will after use
, because it degrades slowly under purely natural conditions, so it still needs to be recycled reasonably.
At the same time, in order to promote the recycling of resources, we can learn from the recyclable straws made of bamboo, glass, stainless steel and other materials popular abroad.
Source: CCTV Finance (ID: cctvyscj)