Recently, a message was read from the newspaper that Shangri-La County’s “whitening” effect was obvious. People went to the streets to buy food and shopping, and they had a long-lost basket and handbag on their hands. This was no exception for foreign tourists: the use of plastic in Shangri-La County is forbidden. Shopping bags, offenders, from time to time will be forcibly replaced, with fines imposed. After reading and feeling a lot, in recent years, people have become more aware of environmental pollution, especially the harmful effects of white pollution. Therefore, various departments at all levels have formulated regulations and issued a call. However, white pollution is still banned. The reason for this is that the "ban" measures have not been implemented.
Plastic bag pollution, also known as "white pollution," is one of the serious sources of pollution today, and it is also a major problem that plagues the global environment. It is attracting the attention of all countries in the world. According to experts, plastic waste is hard to degrade in nature, and its degradation cycle is generally 200 to 400 years. Abandoned plastic waste not only seriously damages the environment landscape, but also seriously causes soil deterioration and affects the growth of crops. Misuse of livestock can cause illness or even death; thrown into rivers and lakes can affect navigation and make water quality worse. It poses a serious threat to marine life and is reducing the number of marine organisms. It can be called a "marine creature killer." There are at least 50,000 northern fur seals that have died each year after they were caught in Pribye Archipelago’s archipelago. Upon inspection, it was confirmed that they were eating plastic waste. In addition, they produced “dioxin” when heated at high temperatures. Carcinogenic effect. In 1999, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany successively suffered from dioxin-contaminated animal products and dairy products containing high concentrations of dioxins. The dioxin incident led to great economic losses in Belgium that year.
According to statistics, more than 90% of the human body's dioxin exposure comes from food. It can be seen that the pollution of plastic garbage is harmful. However, China is also a big country in the use of plastic bags. 100,000 plastic shopping bags flow freely from various commercial retail outlets to customers, and most of these plastic bags can only be used once as a result of quality and other reasons. Even if it is recycled in a small amount, due to pollution, the pollution generated during the secondary processing will be even greater. Similar phenomena have occurred in many places. Every year, a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources are invested in this area to achieve pollution control. However, this has had little success. At present, "white pollution" is still spreading, and it is still ravaging our homes.
How to effectively manage white pollution, Ireland's practice is to levy a tax on the use of plastic shopping bags. All funds collected are transferred to the newly established environmental protection fund for environmental protection projects. This action not only effectively manages "white pollution" and makes plastic bags. The usage has dropped by 90%, and at the same time, a considerable amount of funds have been raised for the national environmental protection project. The national environmental awareness has thus been raised. With so many actions, it is worth learning from us.
The author believes that in addition to the promotion of the use of biodegradable plastic bags, Shangri-La County's practice is worth learning. First, the "banned" measures are focused on implementation. The second is to limit the use of plastic bags, develop strict quality standards and extend the life of plastic bags. The third is to fundamentally reduce the cost of plastic substitutes. The fourth is to promote “green consumption” so that consumers can develop good habits of using less or reusing shopping bags. This will enable humanity to get rid of the status quo of plastic bags as soon as possible, away from “white pollution” and return people to a clean life. space.