What are the benefits of using reusable bags?

Benefits of reusable bags:

Supporting reusable bags can only partially reduce white pollution. A good solution is to educate the public on the real root cause and crack down on the source of white pollution.

Hazards of non-reusable bags:

Environmental sanitation experts point out that although non-reusable bags bring a lot of convenience to the public, on the other hand they cause pollution to the environment. Some non-reusable bags It cannot be used to hold food, as this will cause harm to human health that cannot be underestimated. Medical experts point out that food, especially cooked food, often deteriorates easily after being packaged in non-environmentally friendly bags. People who eat such spoiled food can easily cause vomiting, diarrhea and other food poisoning symptoms. In addition, plastic itself will release harmful gases. Due to long-term accumulation in sealed bags, the concentration increases with the sealing time, causing the food in the bag to be contaminated to varying degrees, which has a particularly prominent impact on the healthy development of children.

The extremely dark-colored non-environmentally friendly bags often used at stalls are extremely harmful. It is reprocessed from recycled waste plastic products, which is extremely harmful to the human body and cannot be used to store directly imported food. In addition, PVC plastic products cannot be used to store alcoholic foods and oily foods, otherwise the bags will contain The lead will dissolve into the food; at the same time, this non-environmentally friendly bag cannot contain food with a temperature above 50°C.

Environmental protection experts point out that some of the non-environmentally friendly bags currently on the market are not allowed to contain food. There are three types of non-reusable bags: one that can neither touch skin nor contain food, and can only be used to contain building materials; one that is used to contain clothing; and one that can barely be used to contain food. Stabilizers are added to some plastic products, and these added stabilizers are mainly lead stearate, which can cause accumulated lead poisoning.

Industry insiders pointed out that the vast majority of non-environmentally friendly bags currently sold and used in the market are produced by small businesses or family workshops in various places. A considerable number of them are recycled plastic products, using waste collected from garbage stations. Plastics, industrial waste and plastic waste discarded by medical institutions are recycled and processed. Without disinfection, they are processed into food bags and put into the market privately.

These recycled plastics contain seriously excessive amounts of germs and carcinogens. The use of such plastic products to package cooked food for direct consumption will have extremely serious consequences for consumers' health. Such non-environmentally friendly bags contain a large number of germs that are invisible to the naked eye. Long-term use of such disposable plastic food bags can easily lead to chronic food poisoning.

In this regard, citizens can use the following methods to test toxic and non-toxic non-environmental friendly bags:

Sensory detection method: non-toxic non-environmental friendly bags are milky white and translucent , or colorless and transparent, flexible, smooth to the touch, and seemingly waxy on the surface; toxic non-environmentally friendly bags are turbid or light yellow in color and feel sticky.

Water detection method: Place the non-environmentally friendly bag in the water and press it into the bottom of the water. The non-toxic non-environmental friendly bag has a small specific gravity and can float to the surface. The toxic non-environmental friendly bag has a large specific gravity and will sink.

Jitter detection method: Grasp one end of the non-environmentally friendly bag with your hands and shake it vigorously. If the bag makes a crisp sound, it is non-toxic; if the sound is muffled, it is poisonous.

Fire detection method: non-toxic polyethylene non-environmentally friendly bags are flammable, with a blue flame and a yellow upper end. They drip like candle tears when burning, with a paraffin smell and little smoke; toxic polychlorine Ethylene non-environmentally friendly bags are non-flammable and extinguish immediately after being removed from the fire. The flame is yellow and the bottom is green. It can be drawn when softened and has a pungent smell of hydrochloric acid.

With the development of the economy, going to supermarkets for shopping has become an indispensable part of modern life, and people have long been accustomed to the free non-reusable bags provided by supermarkets. It is worth noting that the consumption of non-environmentally friendly bags in our country is increasing year by year, and plastic packaging has accounted for one-third of the total packaging materials. Among them, the annual output of plastic packaging materials in Shanghai is as high as 150,000 tons. These colorful, large and small non-environmentally friendly bags are undoubtedly harmful to the environment.

What are the dangers of non-environmentally friendly bags?

The environmental pollution caused by non-environmentally friendly bags mainly includes "visual pollution" and "potential harm". Among them, "visual pollution" refers to the damage to the cityscape and is the most prominent problem of "white pollution". "Potential harm" refers to the long-term environmental problems caused by the difficulty in degrading waste plastic products after they enter the natural environment. Plastics have a stable structure and are not easily destroyed by natural microorganisms. This means that if waste plastic waste is not recycled, it will become pollutants in the environment and accumulate permanently.

It will not only affect the development of industrial and agricultural production and threaten the living environment of animals, but also affect the sustainable use of land and the comprehensive utilization of other organic waste due to improper handling.

In fact, many citizens have become aware of the dangers of non-reusable bags. In order to reduce pollution, they reuse non-reusable bags, such as using them to load garbage or go to the market to buy vegetables. However, the efforts of ordinary citizens alone are not enough. There are always more and more non-reusable bags at home, and the accumulation rate greatly exceeds the consumption rate. Many non-reusable bags are still discarded as waste. If we want to reduce the harm of non-reusable bags and restore a clean environment to the city, we can only start from the source and reduce the distribution of non-reusable bags...