Beijing: Non-degradable plastic bags are banned for express delivery before the end of the year

Plastic restrictions focus on "source reduction", before the end of the year - express ban on non-degradable plastic bags

More than a year ago, the "Beijing Plastic Pollution Control Action Plan (2020-2025)", known as the "Strictest Plastic Restriction Order", was released, proposing a number of plastic restriction measures for supermarkets, catering, express delivery and other industries

According to the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, this year (2022) will focus on deepening the plastic governance work from 8 aspects, and propose 23 specific measures

Community vegetable market plastic bags will be centrally purchased and sold

For a long time, how to control the use of non-degradable plastic bags and express packaging bags at the source is one of the difficulties in reducing plastics

According to the main points of work, this year, the city will carry out green management of express packaging, select about 2 key enterprises, carry out pilot projects of large-scale application of recyclable express packaging, and promote a batch of recyclable express packaging products that are easy to use, low cost, green and low-carbon.

Look at the source of e-commerce packaging again

"This year, we will also find out the use of plastic bags in the community vegetable market, and promote the centralized purchase and sale of disposable plastic shopping bags in the community vegetable market

For the standardized recycling of plastic waste, this year will promote the recycling of disposable express packaging, encourage express companies to independently recycle waste packaging, and build a public recycling platform with commercial institutions, convenience stores, property service companies and other parties

Party and government organs take the lead in reporting the use of plastic this year

This year, Beijing will carry out a pilot project of the reporting system for key plastic-using units, and give full play to the leading role of party and government agencies.

In addition, the city will also select 5 units in the supermarket chain, catering take-out field, and 2 units in the e-commerce platform, focusing on disposable plastic shopping bags, plastic continuous roll bags, disposable plastic straws, plastic coffee stir sticks, plastic The use, recycling and replacement of disposable plastic products such as cutlery (cutlery, fork and spoon), plastic lunch boxes, and plastic fillers will be piloted to carry out a reporting system to promote enterprises to implement the main responsibility for environmental protection

The relevant person in charge said that Beijing will also carry out the 2022 postal express industry pilot project around the use and recycling of non-degradable plastic packaging bags, disposable plastic woven bags, tapes, the number of recyclable express packaging applications and the total number of recycling uses.

In addition, this year, Beijing encourages relevant scientific research units and enterprises to focus on the research and development of green alternative products such as biodegradable bags and agricultural films; conduct research on plastic waste and microplastic pollution in rivers and lakes, and strengthen the building of degradable plastic detection capabilities; encourage and guide relevant industry associations Explore the establishment of a green plastic product inquiry and traceability platform, and release it to the public in a timely manner to facilitate the connection between supply and demand; continue to develop and revise relevant standards and guidelines for plastic pollution control

Large supermarkets use 23 million less plastic bags a year

The "Severe Plastic Restriction Order" has put forward a number of plastic restrictions and plastic reduction measures for supermarkets, catering, express delivery and other industries

"Over the past year, the city's plastic pollution control work has achieved positive results, and a good atmosphere for the whole society to participate in plastic pollution control has initially formed

"However, the city's plastic pollution control work still faces many challenges, and it is difficult to implement small and micro entities.

To this end, this year, the city will continue to carry out special law enforcement inspections on the prohibition of the production of daily chemical products containing plastic microbeads, carry out special law enforcement inspections on plastic bans in supermarkets, bazaars, catering takeaways, e-commerce platforms and other fields, and strictly investigate and punish illegal use.