Plastic waste flows back to your food chain in an invisible form
Many young people have experienced such a weekend: After 12 am on Saturday, it has already arrived at 12 o'clock. After waking up, lie in bed and open the take-out app to see if there is any take-out of appetite, then place an order and wait for take-out. Catch up with the hot Sunday, think of going to work on Monday, or even going out all day, relying on APP at home to solve the problem of two meals.
These takeaways, they are selected, made, packaged, and delivered to your hands. When you finish eating, when you think about it, there are several plastic boxes, several plastic bags, disposable chopsticks, straws, and possibly The cigarette butts of the post-meal smoke, together with the rest of the food, are thrown into the trash can downstairs in the community.
In fact, you may not feel that there is any problem with this series of operations, but it does have a very serious problem.
According to the “2017 China Local O2O Industry Research Report†published by third-party research institute Ai Rui, in 2016, local living service O2O formed two models of home and store, and the overall transaction scale of the industry was close to 700 billion. The take-out APP “Hungry?†recently released China’s take-out big data, showing that the number of users in the Chinese market reached 600 million. In 2016, the proportion of online take-out users spending more than 3 times per week was as high as 63.3%, and the take-away meal became Regular way.
In other words, according to this consumption method, at least 400 million takeaways per week are flying in China's streets. At least 400 million disposable packaging boxes and 400 million plastic bags, and 400 million disposable tableware are discarded. Of course, these problems are not just because of you, but also the garbage sorting vendors. The average usage time of a plastic bag is 25 minutes. Take the sale as an example, its mission is roughly to ensure that your takeaway will not be confused with others from the ten minutes of delivery.
But each plastic bag needs at least 470 years of degradation. About 8 million tons of plastics are dumped into the ocean every year. China's plastic dumping accounts for about one-third of the total, ranking first in the world. According to this development speed, by 2025, every sea fish in the ocean (calculated by one kilogram) has 330 grams of plastic wrap around the sea where it lives. By 2050, the weight of plastic will exceed the weight of these marine fish.
However, most people may react: "Fortunately, I am not a poor fish in the ocean" or "Oh, then? What does this have to do with me?" Then let's talk about it. Then these plastic waste flows back into your food chain in an invisible form. It can harm your health. Scientists refer to this substance as "plastic particles." On October 29, 2015, the American authoritative science magazine Scientific American published a survey report on salt in China. The report showed that 15 brands of common salt purchased from all over China were found. Polyethylene terephthalate, glycol esters, polyethylene, and cellophane and other plastics used in the production of plastic bottles. Sea salt is most contaminated by plastic. There are more than 1,200 plastic particles per pound (453g). Although the plastic particles of salt mine salt are relatively low, they also reach 800 tablets.
Microbeads are typically less than 2 mm in diameter and are not easily visible to the naked eye. In the fish market in California and Indonesia, 1/4 of the fish's small intestine contains plastic particles. Where does this “plastic particle†come from? An important source of plastic particles is the personal care products that people use every day, such as scrubs, shower gels, toothpastes and cosmetics. Another source is rayon fabrics such as polyester (polyester), nylon (nylon, or polyamide), polypropylene, chlorin, spandex (Leica), and vinylon. In other words, the clothes you wear with elastic, chiffon, and synthetic fabrics, after being washed, the plastic particles in the water flow into the rivers and lakes through the water circulation system, and these plastic particles will absorb the toxic pollutants in the ocean ( For example, polychlorinated biphenyls that are not easily degradable, and because their morphology is very similar to that of fish eggs, they are easily eaten by other fish. Finally, the sea fish was fished back to the human table, and the food chain system cycle was smoothly realized.
However, this kind of statistical result, we are difficult to qualitatively exist, because in the complex living environment we live in today, there is no way to explain why the various types of lesions are for medical reasons. The plastic particles have a small diameter and can enter the tissue cells and accumulate in the liver, causing an inflammatory reaction and causing chronic depositional poisoning. It is also possible to enter the bloodstream and affect our endocrine system when it reaches a certain concentration.
In an interesting way: Every day when you are eating, you are in a state of Schrödinger. You may not have the plastic you have eaten, but it may take you to open the box on the day you are sick. It's all sensational, but you really can't help but sit still? It's not. The way to reduce all of this pollution is to reduce the need for disposable plastic products. From the point of view of life: Bring your own cup to Starbucks, try to cook for yourself or eat at the restaurant, reduce unnecessary online shopping, and bring your own shopping bags out, which is a good choice to reduce pollution.
The ecological hazards brought about by the abuse of plastic bags and disposable tableware are not alarmist. The Chinese people's awareness of environmental protection in this respect is quite lacking and must be taken seriously. In the 2017 New Year, the Chinese spent in the smog. Since the northern heating season last year, unprecedented smog has shrouded the land of China. The causes and harms of smog have also become the focus of attention of the Chinese people. In fact, in China, a broader, more serious, far-reaching and longer-lasting environmental pollution than the smog has already spread. This is the garbage siege.
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