Taiwan Announces Ban on All Plastic Bags, Straws, and Utensils

Pick up orders, buy grocery, purchase soft drinks - all these are Taiwan's changes over the next decade. The island's country completely banned disposable plastic bags, straws and cups. Hong Kong Free Press

It will be one of the most stringent plastic ban on the world, indicating the momentum of the antiplastic movement, as the level of environmental damage caused by the substance is fully realized.

According to the Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency official, Rai Inaiya, in a statement, "Our goal is to comprehensively ban the 2030 by 2030 to significantly reduce plastic waste entering the food chain by polluting the ocean It is to do it. "

The Science Website Phys said that over time, Taiwan's ban will be gradually implemented, based on existing regulations such as expansion of recycling program and additional cost of plastic bags.

The first part of this rule is that the chain restaurant prohibited the chain restaurant from offering the straw to the customer in 2019 and then fully banned the use of straw by catering at the store by 2020.

Retailers will charge free plastic bags, disposable food containers, cutlery by 2020 and will add additional fee in 2025.

Hong Kong Free Press reported that by 2030 these measures prohibit a comprehensive prohibition on disposable bags, tools, straws and containers eventually.

"You can use steel products and edible straw - or you may not need to use straw at all," Ying-yaun says. "There is no inconvenience.

Approximately 380 million tons of plastics are produced each year around the world. At the same time, it is estimated that 8 million tons of plastic goes into the ocean every year, just as you pour plastic garbage trucks into the sea every minute.

This announcement is also part of the worldwide plastic movement as the government recognizes that the convenience of plastics is not worth harming.

Recently the United Nations proposed a worldwide ban on plastic pollution to the ocean, Canada planned to make similar proposals at the G-7 meeting later this year, a series of local government, state and federal government plastics I am developing a target ban on use

According to the eco-cycle, American citizens use about 500 million straw everyday. Given that the United States accounts for only 4% of the world's population, the number of straws used worldwide may be much higher each day.

Recycling is almost impossible as these straws are usually made of disposable plastic and are very fragile and can not withstand the recycling process.

Taiwan's ban will proceed further by prohibiting a set of other popular plastic products. Now, the country needs to convince bigger plastic consumers to follow their lead

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Taiwan has announced plans to completely prohibit the use of plastic straws, plastic bags, plastic tools by 2030. According to Taiwan's official news, Taiwan officials announced on February 22 that major chain restaurants will not provide restaurant straws for restaurants in 2019.

The anti plastic movement is experiencing the flash point, McDonald 's pledging a new pledge to phased out plastic straws, New York has imposed embargo on plastic bags nationwide. last month. Plastic bouncing is inevitable. Health officials, agencies, consumers, and companies are aware of the serious environmental hazards posed by plastic waste. In particular, the ability to break marine ecosystems and enter the food chain to endanger human health.

In May 2018, the European Commission prohibited disposable plastic products like swabs and straws and proposed to take responsibility for tidying up to reduce marine waste. To the manufacturer. In Vancouver, Scotland and other cities of the United States, plastic straw bans are banned and legislation prohibited is enacted. The RefillNotLandfill campaign in Cambodia is aimed at reducing the water of millions of plastic bottles thrown away by tourists and locals. An alternative is a reusable aluminum bottle that can be refilled at a designated location nationwide. The campaign expanded to Myanmar and Laos. This movement can reduce the amount of PET bottles used.