Impact of Disposable Articles on the Environment

Impact of Disposable Articles on the Environment

Disposable goods's impact on the environment, health is the first wealth in life, which means that a person is in good physical, mental and social condition. If we neglect our health, we may cause irreparable damage. The following share the impact of disposable items on the environment.

Impact of disposable articles on the environment 1 What are the environmental impacts of using disposable tableware in large quantities?

Mainly in the following two aspects:

1. Wastes made of polyethylene compounds, such as fast food lunch boxes, are difficult to degrade in the natural environment, which has caused continuous damage to soil water sources.

Second, it is difficult to recycle disposable chopsticks for wood processing. Cutting down trees and other limited green resources will bring chain waste and damage to vegetation, environment and climate.

Disposable tableware can only be disposed of in two ways: landfill or incineration. If it is incinerated by a garbage incinerator, the cost is twice that of landfill, and toxic substances will be discharged.

However, landfill will waste a lot of resources, hinder plant growth, pollute groundwater and provide breeding grounds for harmful mosquitoes and bacteria. To fill 165438+ ten thousand plastic lunch boxes, you need 1 mu of open space.

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The reason why the country wants to ban foamed plastic tableware;

The China Municipal Government has stipulated that the production, sale and use of disposable foamed plastic tableware will be prohibited from 2006 1 month/day for the following reasons:

1, it is difficult to recycle foamed plastic tableware after it is used up and discarded;

2. The foaming agent used in the production of some enterprises is butane (that is, the gas of lighters), which is easy to catch fire and unsafe;

3. The product is easy to dissolve out harmful substances at high temperature (> 65℃), which is unsafe to use, especially when it is used in microwave oven.

4. The product is bulky and inconvenient to transport and store;

5, not easy to decompose, polluting the environment and harmful to human body;

6, the emergence of alternative products (corn starch tableware).

Impact of Disposable Articles on the Environment 2 Environmental Protection Tips | How much do you know about the hazards in disposable articles?

In our life, many people have used disposable items. As everyone knows, disposable consumption is a "double-edged sword" in modern society. It is not only a symbol of material abundance and convenience, but also an "accelerator" for turning resources into garbage.

A lot of energy and resources were wasted at one time, and environmental pollution increased one after another. But is it really that convenient? Facing the deteriorating living environment, human beings are deeply afraid; But in daily life, there are still so many behaviors at the expense of destroying the environment.

Disposable articles do great harm to us, such as disposable chopsticks, disposable lunch boxes, disposable batteries and disposable plastic bags. Now let's learn about the hazards of some disposable items.

The hazards of plastic bags are summarized as follows:

1, plastic is a kind of high molecular polymer, which is not easy to degrade and takes hundreds of years to decompose, so it becomes a pollution hazard.

2. Destroy the city appearance and environment, and waste plastic products can be seen everywhere, destroying the landscape and affecting the image of the city.

It is harmful to human health. Waste plastic products with pollutants will be harmful to human health.

4, affecting the growth of crops, the plastic film used in farmland will break and stay in the ground after aging, and will not decompose and rot, affecting crop harvest.

The proliferation of plastic bags all over the world not only pollutes the environment, but also does great harm. Plastic bags block sewers, which may lead to floods and the spread of diseases; Plastic bags can also spread air pollution, because many plastic bags are burned with other garbage. Burning plastic bags may spread dioxin into the air, and if it is excessive, it will cause death.

The forest coverage rate of China is only 16.55%, but it is a big exporter of disposable wooden chopsticks. Disposable chopsticks industry in northern China exports 654.38+0.5 billion Shuang Mu chopsticks to Japan and South Korea every year. In addition to wasting wood, disposable chopsticks are not environmentally friendly, and another reason is wasting water, resulting in the loss of water resources.

The bleaching of disposable chopsticks requires a lot of water to cook or rinse, but in the actual manufacturing process, no one uses that much water. It is reported that 93% disposable chopsticks in the market are fumigated and bleached with sulfur dioxide. The longer the fumigation time, the whiter the chopsticks and the more sour the smell.

However, after sulfur dioxide fumigation and bleaching, manufacturers often ignore the boiling step, and the residual sulfur dioxide will combine with other substances to form sulfite, which is considered to cause asthma in the medical field. So far, there is no special hygienic inspection standard for disposable chopsticks in China.

Experts pointed out that in China, a big country with a population of 654.38+0.2 billion, the widespread use of disposable chopsticks is a great waste of forestry resources, and it is this kind of thing thrown away after eating that accelerates the destruction of forests. Forests are carbon dioxide converters, rainfall generators, flood controllers and biodiversity reserves, and these functions are irreplaceable for the benefits of producing disposable chopsticks.

There are a lot of heavy metal pollutants-cadmium, mercury, manganese, etc.-in daily use batteries. When they rot and are abandoned in nature, these toxic substances will slowly overflow from the battery, enter the soil or water source, and then enter the human food chain through crops. These toxic substances will accumulate in the human body for a long time and are difficult to eliminate, damaging the nervous system, hematopoietic function, kidneys and bones, and some even cause cancer. Heavy metals contained in waste batteries may be eaten by themselves one day.

In a word, we humans must reduce the pollution in this area and say "no" to them, because they have caused too much pollution to people's lives and environment, and they threaten human health. At this rate, our mother earth will suffer at our human hands sooner or later. In order to keep her youthful beauty, we must protect the environment and refuse pollution.

Impact of Disposable Articles on the Environment 3 Protecting the Environment-Refusing to Use Disposable Articles

I don't know when the use of disposable daily necessities has become a health fashion. There are more and more disposable goods in life: disposable chopsticks, disposable lunch boxes, disposable cups, disposable toothbrushes, disposable drink cups, disposable underwear and disposable cameras are coming at an unstoppable speed. Although this consumption pattern has brought many benefits to consumers, such as simplicity, convenience and sanitation, it has also exposed its excessive waste of resources.

First, let's look at what is disposable. Disposable goods, as the name suggests, are used up once, and its mission is over. Things that can't be reused are called disposable items. It covers a wide range, such as chopsticks in fast food restaurants, foam packaging boxes and cups on our dining table;

Disposable ink pens, pencils and paper towels we use; Toothpaste, toothbrush, simple slippers, disposable lighters, films and raincoats for adults in the hotel; Disposable infusion sets used in hospitals; Disposable teacups, plastic bags, etc. Everything used at home is called disposable.

Then let's talk about the health advantages and disadvantages of disposable products. Disposable articles have the advantages of cleanliness, convenience, hygiene, portability and low price. But its shortcomings are shocking. We only take disposable chopsticks as an example: disposable chopsticks can be made in two ways: solid and liquid. Solid state is made by sulfur fumigation and bleaching, and its sulfur dioxide will seriously exceed the standard.

One of the characteristics of sulfur dioxide is that it will solidify when it is cold. Therefore, when people eat with these chopsticks, sulfur dioxide can easily solidify into the respiratory tract with the flow of air, and respiratory diseases such as cough and asthma will follow. In addition, sulfur contains heavy metals. For example, heavy metals such as lead and mercury can accumulate in the human body, and long-term accumulation will cause lead poisoning or mercury poisoning.

The liquid processing method of chopsticks is bleaching with chlorine or hydrogen peroxide, especially chlorine, which not only easily causes gallstones, but also contains dioxins that once made people talk about color change. As for bamboo chopsticks, in order to remove the burr of chopsticks and make them look smooth and white.

Producers put it into talcum powder and process chopsticks by friction. However, talcum powder is easy to increase the risk of gallstones. Although disposable chopsticks produced by informal manufacturers are very harmful, so far, there is no special hygienic inspection standard for disposable chopsticks in China.

Second, the waste of resources caused by disposable products can be seen everywhere. According to the survey, there are thousands of enterprises producing wooden chopsticks in China. It consumes nearly 5 million cubic meters of wood resources every year, and the annual harvesting of forest trees in China is about 47.58 million cubic meters. These chopsticks account for 65,438+00 and 5%. In the process of producing chopsticks, from logs to blocks to finished products, the effective utilization rate of wood is only 60%.

According to statistics, * * There are more than 60,000 star-rated hotels 1 100, 2 1, with an average occupancy rate of 65%. It consumes about 6.5438+0.4 million sets of disposable articles every day and spends more than 256 million yuan every year. There are more than 500 star-rated hotels and non-star hotels in Shanghai, and the total weight of "six small pieces" of garbage discarded every year is close to 2000 tons. To deal with these "six small pieces" of garbage, the sanitation department will invest nearly one million yuan every year.

It is understood that a set of "six small" daily necessities, such as disposable toothpaste and toothbrush in the hotel, weighs less than1.50g, but the waste of resources caused is extremely alarming. Because the "six small pieces" are mostly made of plastic, they are difficult to degrade in the soil after landfill and become a new pollution source in the city. It can be seen that disposable products bring convenience to people's lives, but the waste of resources is immeasurable.

Thirdly, from the perspective of environmental protection, behind this convenience is the waste of a lot of resources and the accumulation of garbage, which brings endless future troubles. Let's learn more about disposable items, such as chopsticks, paper, paper towels and pencils. They need wood and bamboo. Wood and bamboo are precious natural resources, and their growing periods are generally very long. A circle of a tree is only 1 ~ 3 cm long, and it takes more than ten years to hundreds of years to grow into dozens of centimeters thick. Bamboo also needs 4-5 years to grow.

Cutting down a lot of wood and bamboo causes resource exhaustion, environmental deterioration and serious imbalance of ecological environment. At the same time, most of our cities are surrounded by rubbish at present. According to the data, the national garbage storage capacity reaches more than 6 billion tons every year, covering an area of more than 500 million square meters, which leads to the deterioration of the ecological environment on the edge of cities in many areas, and people are fed up with the suffering of air and water pollution.

The raw materials used in another kind of disposable articles are foam plastic boxes, slippers, lighters, raincoats, films, plastic bags, refills, plastic cups, infusion sets, etc. We know that plastic products are not perishable. Buried underground, 100 years will not decompose. If burned, it will produce a lot of smoke and release a lot of toxic gases. Resulting in a sharp increase in urban environmental pollution.

The problems caused by one-time consumption can be divided into the following categories:

1, health problems. As a rapid growth trend, disposable goods are often inferior in price, and the chaotic market situation is difficult to guarantee the quality of products. Due to the low entry threshold, lax supervision, lack of strict hygiene standards and effective market supervision system, disposable products manufacturers are mixed, and inferior and cheap disposable products flood the market. Seriously endanger people's health.

2. Waste of resources. One-off consumption led to the crazy plunder of natural resources. China loses 5 million cubic meters of wood every year due to the production of disposable wooden chopsticks. China produces/kloc-0.0 million boxes of disposable chopsticks every year, and it needs to cut down 25 million trees, of which 6 million boxes are exported abroad. Behind the convenience and quickness brought by one-off, it is shocking resource consumption.

3. Environmental pollution. Disposable consumer goods cause serious environmental pollution. Disposable articles can be discarded at will after use, which can be seen everywhere, and the potential harm to the environment can not be ignored. Disposable articles are mostly plastic products, which bring heavy burden to the environment because they are difficult to degrade.

Now that we know the advantages and disadvantages of disposable products, how should we treat disposable products from the perspective of environmental protection? What can we do to protect the environment?

1, without disposable goods. Some students will ask, what can we use without disposable items? Use disinfection supplies. You can make a survey of these needs. First, go back and ask your grandparents if they had disposable items when they were young, and what did they use? What was the river like at that time? Is there so much rubbish?

2. Use reusable items. If you don't use handkerchiefs with paper towels; Use cloth bags and bamboo baskets instead of plastic bags; Replace disposable teacups with their own special teacups; Bring your own toothpaste, toothbrush and shampoo when you go out to stay, so as to reduce the use of disposable items. When eating fast food, try to choose paper boxes instead of foamed fast food boxes.

3, save use. Use disposable stationery such as paper and pencils sparingly, and don't be extravagant. Matsushita of Japan is so rich, they also save paper, and every page should be used on both sides.

4. Garbage sorting and recycling. Random disposal, incineration and landfill of garbage will pollute the environment. However, garbage sorting and recycling can turn waste into treasure. Making plastics requires coal and oil as raw materials.

Coal and oil are non-renewable natural resources. We can separate and recycle plastics and paper, sell them to waste stations and send them to factories to produce recycled plastics and paper. This reduces the consumption of natural resources, so that future generations can still use resources, while reducing the occupation of cultivated land by garbage and reducing environmental pollution.

5. Establish the concept of environmental protection.