Hainan held a hearing on the "plastic ban": individuals can be fined up to 500 for littering plastics

On October 18, the Hainan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment held a hearing on the "List of Disposable Non-degradable Plastic Products Banned from Production and Sale in Hainan Province (First Batch)" (hereinafter referred to as the "List") to listen to the voices of all walks of li.

The "List" is closely related to the two key words "disposable" and "non-degradable", and is strictly limited to the two categories of plastic bags and plastic tablewa.

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Hainan consumes 120,000 tons of disposable non-degradable plastic products every year

Since Hainan Province started the "plastic restriction" work in 2008, due to consumption habits, production costs and other reasons, the consumption and usage of disposable non-degradable plastic products have not been optimist.

"According to statistics, the use of plastic bags in large supermarkets has decreased by about two-thirds in recent years, but it has little effect on the farmers' mark.

Deng Xiaogang, director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, introduced that according to preliminary statistics, about 120,000 tons of disposable non-degradable plastic products are used in Hainan Province each year, of which about 65,000 tons are produced in Hainan Provin.

In February of this year, the "Implementation Plan for the Comprehensive Prohibition of the Production, Sale and Use of Disposable Non-degradable Plastic Products in Hainan Province" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") was promulgated, marking that the province has gradually promoted the comprehensive ban on plastics by category since this ye.

According to the "Plan", before the end of 2019, Hainan Province will establish and improve local regulations and standard systems that prohibit the production, sale and use of disposable non-degradable plastic products, improve the supervision and law enforcement system, and form the supply capacity of alternative produc.

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What to listen to? What to prove? Alternative products become the focus

At the hearing on that day, 20 hearing declarants presented suggestions from their respective industri.

Lu Xiqun, chief financial officer of Haikou First Plastic Packaging .

Hu Antao, general manager of a plastic products limited liability company in Hainan, said that non-woven plastic bags are not involved in the "Catalogu.

"Chlorinated plastics are dioxin precursors, and no matter how they are burned, they will inevitably release highly carcinogenic and harmful pollutan.

The cost of substitute products for disposable non-degradable plastic products has also become a major focus of the sce.

        Zhao Wenyang, Secretary-General of Hainan Food Safety Association, analyzed from the perspective of food safety that the second largest category of plastic tableware, such as tableware that requires food contact, can replace the existing disposable tableware with product stability, temperature resistance and oil resistan.

        Deng Xiaogang introduced that Hainan will establish and improve the recycling management system and preferential policies by the end of 2025, and guide farmers to use disposable fully biodegradable plastic agricultural mulch fil.

        Several hearing deputies believed that Hainan's "plastic ban" will play an important role in protecting the ecological environment, and flexible time should be set at the operational level, taking into account factors such as citizens' consumption habits and the cost of various industries to ensure that the "plastic ban" is effecti.

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        Littering plastic products can be fined up to 500 yuan

        In fact, with regard to substitutes, the "Regulations on Prohibiting the Production, Sale and Use of Disposable Non-degradable Plastic Products in Hainan Special Economic Zone (Draft for Comment)" encourages the production, sale and use of fully biodegradable plastics, paper, cloth, non-woven fabrics and other plan.

        Relevant departments will coordinate the layout and planning of the industrial development plan for disposable non-degradable plastic products, accelerate the construction of a fully biodegradable plastic product industry base integrating scientific research, production, sales, scientific and technological exchanges, and transformation of achievements, form production capacity, and ensure replaceme.

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At the same time, the organization formulates local standards for fully biodegradable plastic produc.

        The "Regulations" also stipulate that if units and individuals randomly discard or dump disposable non-degradable plastic products, the environmental sanitation management department of the people's government at the county level shall make corrections within a time limit, and impose a fine of not less than 1,000 yuan but not more than 10,000 yuan on the unit; 100 yuan for individuals A fine of more than 500 yuan and le.

        Those who sell disposable non-degradable plastic products in the prohibited list will be ordered to make corrections within a time limit, their existing disposable non-degradable plastic products will be confiscated, and a fine of not less than 30,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan will be impos.

        Commodity retail places and public service places that do not set up warning signs prohibiting the use of disposable non-degradable plastic products in conspicuous places shall be ordered by the competent department to make corrections within a time limit, and those who refuse to make corrections shall be fined between 1,000 yuan and 3,000 yu.

If the agricultural plastic film products are discarded at will, the competent department shall impose a fine of not less than 1,000 yuan but not more than 10,000 yuan on the unit; and impose a fine of not less than 100 yuan but not more than 500 yuan on the individu.