Farmers market plastic shopping bags have made it difficult to prohibit

The State has implemented a “plastic limit order” since June 1st, and it has been nearly a hundred days. However, recently the reporter visited the major farmers’ markets in Xinyu City, Jiangxi province, and discovered that the “plastic limit” did not play the role of “limited plastic” in the slightest. The "white pollution" that cannot be easily decomposed is still being used in abundance, and "limited plastic" has made it difficult to ban in the farmers' market.

In the interview, the reporter found that compared with the strict implementation of the “plastic limit order” in the supermarket, the implementation in the major farmers’ markets in Xinyu was much worse, and the “plastic limit” did not play the role of “plastic limit” in the slightest. In Chengnan Farmers’ Market, almost every stall is festooned with colorful plastic bags. These poor-quality plastic shopping bags, which are not easily decomposed and recovered and do not meet national standards, are inexpensive and are used by street vendors, regardless of customers. Buy a few green onions, or buy an onion, the vendors will readily handed customers a plastic bag. Most of the people who buy food have "dependence" on these free white pollution. After observing the reporters, the citizens who came to buy food basically did not lift baskets or carry bags. Most of them came from an empty hand, because it was a common practice for sellers to provide plastic bags for free. After the public bought the food, everyone had several or even more than 10 plastic bags in their hands. What's more, in the grocery stalls in every vegetable market, there are bundles of inferior plastic bags that do not meet the national standards.

The “plastic limit order” promulgated by the State stipulates that all supermarkets, shopping malls, and bazaars and other retail establishments shall not provide plastic shopping bags for free or sell plastic shopping bags that do not meet the national standards. When a reporter asked a street vendor at a farmer's market, “Isn't the state refraining from sending free plastic bags?” The vendor replied: “I'm convenient for the buyer. How can he buy vegetables without plastic bags? The stall owners provide plastic bags for customers free of charge. If only I do not give, who will visit my vegetable stalls?” said a staff manager of the farm, two cents for each plastic bag, but for the two dimes, they Often explain to the customer for a long time, still some people do not understand. Some customers also heard that plastic bags had to be charged separately.

It is understood that shortly after the implementation of the “plastic limit order”, the Xinyu Industry and Commerce Department carried out inspections and remediation of the “limited plastic” situation in various urban vegetable markets in the urban area, and also confiscated some plastic bags from street vendors, but it was almost not waiting for the inspection personnel to turn around. The situation remains the same.
According to statistics, supermarkets are one of the most used disposable plastic shopping bags before the release of the “plastic limit order”, but the amount of plastic bags used by supermarkets and fruit stalls outside supermarkets is three times that of supermarkets. It seems that the biggest source of "white pollution" has not been effectively controlled.