Ultra-thin plastic bags still exist
In many supermarkets, shopping malls and markets, there are not many people bringing their own recycle PET bag. Most people still use plastic bags. In farmers market, the bundles of ultra-thin plastic bags are still on the sale. Some environmentalists said that: In this several years, the implementation progress of ‘plastic limit’ can make people optimistic.
After the implementation of plastic limit on June 1, 2008, the supermarkets, shopping malls, markets and other retail establishments no longer provide free plastic shopping bags. The consumers must pay for them and less than
Plastic bags to bring convenience to people's lives, but mostly with non-renewable degradable plastic materials production, processing can only be digging these white trash landfill or high temperature incineration, and the two approaches are not conducive to environmental protection. According to scientists, test, plastic bags is difficult to degrade, buried in the ground and need 400 to 1,000 years to decay, and serious pollution of the soil, and burning of the harmful smoke and toxic gas, it will also result in atmospheric pollution. Caused by heavy use of plastic bags white pollution, plastic bags, it is called as the worst invention of the 20th century.
The theme of world environment day is ‘to reduce pollution, action now.’ Environmentalists propose that: to reduce environmental pollution, the general public should increase the awareness of environmental protection. They have to start actions from their own, such as try to do the common things: do reduce the use of plastic bags or never use the plastic bags.Source:http://www.cnmhc.com