my country's waste plastic recycling volume ranks first in the world

While plastic brings great convenience to human life, it is difficult to degrade naturally, which brings serious challenges to environmental governance

At present, plastic pollution has gradually become the second largest environmental issue in the world after climate change

Zhang Deyuan, an associate researcher at the Institute of Economic System and Management of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the essence of plastic pollution is environmental leakage caused by improper management of plastic waste.

Faced with the problem of plastic pollution, China has continuously strengthened the recycling and utilization of plastic waste, actively developed a plastic circular economy, implemented full life cycle governance from production, consumption, circulation and disposal, and accelerated the construction of plastic design, production, circulation and consumption to disposal.

China's material utilization accounts for 45% of the global total in the same period.

To solve the problem of plastic pollution, speeding up technological innovation and standard formulation is the top priority.

Tian Jin, project director of Meituan's "Qingshan Plan", said that the core part of the "Qingshan Plan" is to promote the solution to the problem of one-time catering take-out packaging.

"From waste plastic recycling and system construction to plastic waste treatment in key areas and key areas, from disposable lunch box treatment to disposable non-degradable plastic products treatment, China's efforts to control plastic pollution have never stopped