Why Did The State Ban Foamed Plastic Cutlery?

Why did the state ban foamed plastic cutlery?

The Chinese government prohibits the production, sale and use of disposable foamed plastic tableware from January 1, 2001 for the following reasons:

1, foamed plastic cutlery is difficult to recycle after waste;

2. It is not easily decomposed and degraded in the environment;

3. The foaming agent used in the production of some enterprises is butane (i.e. lighter gas), which is easy to catch fire and unsafe;

4, the product volume is large, transportation, storage is not convenient.

5, disposable foamed plastic cutlery containing hot food or hot water, usually the temperature is more than 90 degrees Celsius. At that temperature, toxins contained in substances like bisphenol A in disposable foamed utensils are released into the food. If the concentration of harmful substances in the raw materials for the production of foaming tableware exceeds the standard and the process is not well controlled in the processing process, the poison will be greater.

The research results of professional institutions show that if the polystyrene polymer in disposable foaming tableware is not completely polymerized in the synthesis process, it will cause the dissolution of styrene monomer, dimer, trimer, if the human body long-term absorption, will cause damage to the liver and kidney.

First, which types of environmental protection tableware?

Disposable tableware is divided into the following three categories according to the source of raw materials, production technology, degradation method and recycling level:

1, biodegradable category: such as paper products (including paper pulp molding type, board coating type), food powder molding type, plant fiber molding type, etc.

2, light/biodegradable materials: light/biodegradable plastics (foam), as the light of biodegradable PP classes;

3, easy to recycle materials: such as polypropylene (PP), high impact polystyrene (HIPS), bidirectional stretching polystyrene (BOPS), natural inorganic mineral filled polypropylene composite products.

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