Shanghai to ban non-biodegradable single-use plastic straws - will this have an impact on life?

Yes, Shanghai will ban non-biodegradable disposable plastic straws.

Recently, the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission and the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment and other ten departments jointly issued and promulgated the "Shanghai Municipality on the further strengthening of the implementation of plastic pollution control program".

On the morning of September 29th, the Shanghai Municipality held a news briefing to introduce the "implementation of the program" content.

Disposable plastic tableware. The implementation of the "Shanghai Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations" requires that the catering dine-in service and catering take-out areas shall not actively provide consumers with disposable chopsticks, spoons and other tableware. By the end of 2020, the citywide catering industry will ban the use of non-biodegradable disposable plastic straws.

The use of non-degradable disposable plastic tableware is prohibited in the catering dine-in service. By the end of 2025, the intensity of consumption of non-degradable disposable plastic tableware in the city's catering takeout sector will drop by more than 30% (Municipal Commission of Commerce, Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Municipal Market Supervision and Regulation Bureau, and the people's governments of all districts).

Expanded:

Basic principles:

Source reduction and categorization. Strengthen the source reduction and governance, seize the key areas and important links in the production and use of plastic products, for the prominent problems strongly reflected by the community, categorization of management requirements; comprehensive consideration of the actual situation of the city's various fields, and reasonably determine the implementation path to actively and steadily promote the work of plastic pollution control.

Innovation and technology support. With recycling, easy recovery and recycling as the guide, research and development to promote the performance of the standard, green, affordable plastic products and alternative products, to cultivate recycling, standardized recycling, recycling and reduce plastic pollution of the new industry and new modes.

Multi-participation, social **** governance. Give full play to the main responsibility of enterprises, strengthen government supervision and management, strengthen policy guidance, cohesion of social **** knowledge, the formation of the government, enterprises, industry organizations, the public **** with the participation of multiple **** governance system.

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