Disposable green tableware to play the leading role

Disposable tableware promotes the use of disposable tableware made from difficult materials such as pulp, paperboard, edible powder, and plant fibers. It is also known as disposable green tableware because it is safe and biodegradable or easily recycled.
After the State banned the production, sale and use of disposable foam plastic tableware, the production of environmentally friendly tableware was considered as a sunrise industry. In the past few years, the number of environmentally-friendly tableware companies in the country has grown to nearly 1,000, and more than 100 paper-making and plastic-molding companies have been established.
However, over the past few years, most environmental protection tableware companies are on the verge of bankruptcy. For example, the Beijing Oasis Peak Paper Products Factory, which started with aquaculture, invested more than 4.8 million yuan in 1996 to purchase equipment for Nissan’s 100,000-seat eco-friendly lunch boxes. However, the actual annual output was only maintained at 400,000-500,000 during the seven years since its establishment. About six equipments, three of them are idle for a long time, and companies have suffered losses every year. Now they have to rely on the rental of factories to survive. Another example is that private entrepreneur Liu Hong invested nearly ten million yuan to build Chongqing Qingtian Environmental Protection Tableware Factory, and the number of lunch boxes put into operation for five months was only 3,000, and the market share in Chongqing's daily consumption of 600,000 was insufficient. 0.003%. The plant was declared closed in December last year and the 1 million green food boxes produced are still lying quietly in the warehouse. Three of Xinjiang’s four environmentally-friendly tableware companies have closed, including the Becker Music Company, which ranks third in the country in terms of production scale and first in the northwest. According to rough statistics, at present, two-thirds of the nation's environmental protection tableware companies are in the state of suspend production or semi-discontinued, of which 90% of paper meal boxes are on the verge of bankruptcy.
Why environmental protection cutlery is not good enough to cause environmental protection tableware companies on the verge of bankruptcy or even closed down, disposable foam plastic meal has been banned for many reasons. Which is mainly a price issue. Due to the reasons for the production of raw materials and processes, the cost of foam plastic lunch boxes is only 7-8 cents each, while the cost of environmental protection tableware is at least 1.5 cents more, and pulp molded tableware is more than 3 cents. The price difference between the two is 1 to 4 times. Price has become a major barrier to consumer acceptance. In addition, the appearance of some environmentally friendly tableware is rustic and rough, which also affects the acceptance of the market.
However, the experts interviewed pointed out that the most fundamental issue: First, the country lacks support for relevant policies. At present, the country has not yet established a preferential policy for supporting environmental protection tableware companies. Although environmental protection tableware is a product that protects people's health, it is difficult for consumers to accept the high price, which to a certain extent affects the survivability and price level of environmental protection tableware. The second is the lack of strict control over non-environmental tableware production and sales. At present, there are no laws and regulations on restricting the production, use, and sales of non-environmental tableware, and there is a lack of "sanctions" for illegal producers. Moreover, the unified supervision and management mechanism has not yet been established, and production and sales are divided into two departments, which may easily lead to a disconnect. At the same time, the phenomenon of lax enforcement in the market is also widespread. In some localities, there is a phenomenon that the implementation of national policies is not resolute or “adaptable.” There are still local methods for recycling disposable plastic tableware, which encourages the existence of illegal enterprises to a certain extent.
The state should take measures to support environmental protection. Tableware experts recommend that in order to promote the development of China's environmental protection tableware companies and curb the proliferation of disposable foam plastic tableware, measures such as strengthening management and relative support should be taken.
1. To formulate laws and regulations that restrict the production, sale, and use of disposable non-environmental tableware as soon as possible, or to add related content, unified standards, clear penalty, and provide strong enforceability for law enforcement agencies in the "Solid Waste Environmental Pollution Prevention Act." The legal basis.
2, increase the environmental protection tableware market law enforcement inspection efforts to ban, close down unqualified production companies, block the supply of poor quality products, regulate the market, provide space for environmental protection tableware.
3. Formulate practical and feasible protective measures to support and protect environmental protection tableware companies. For example, for environmental protection tableware production companies, they will be exempted from certain taxes and fees to ensure their healthy survival and development.
4, to strengthen the environmental protection tableware research, reduce costs, improve quality and enhance product competitiveness. The news media regularly publishes qualified environmental protection tableware companies and product directories, raises the awareness of environmental protection tableware companies, exposes counterfeit products and production companies, and enhances the concept of consumer science consumption.