The pharmacy man's attention! From next year, non-degradable plastic shopping bags will be banned.

Pharmaceutical Network Policy and Regulations Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecological Environment and other nine departments jointly issued "on the solid promotion of plastic pollution control work notice." The notice proposes that from January 1, 2021, non-degradable plastic shopping bags will be prohibited in shopping malls, supermarkets, pharmacies, bookstores and other places in the municipalities directly under the Central Government, provincial capital cities, planned single-listed urban built-up areas, catering and shopping and all kinds of exhibition activities, but not the use of roll bags, fresh bags and garbage bagsPublic information shows that plastic pollution generally refers to white pollution, refers to the use of polystyrene, polypropylene, PVC and other polymer compounds made of packaging bags, agricultural land film, disposable tableware, plastic bottles and other plastic products used after disposal into solid waste, due to random littering, difficult to degrade treatment, to the ecological environment and the landscape caused by pollutionAmong them, non-degradable plastic shopping bags have now become one of the symbols of environmental pollution, in pharmacies, shopping malls, supermarkets in all occasions we can see its figureIt is understood that the current pharmacy, pharmacies, clinics, hospitals and other places with three kinds of plastic bags: vest bags, handbags, self-sealed bagsGeneral pharmacies, pharmacies, clinics, hospital scouring consumers to buy medicine / take medicine, used to pack medicine for consumers to carry plastic bags, that is, vest bags; At present, many pharmacies provide plastic bags are still non-degradable plastic bagsAccording to the data, the number of retail pharmacies nationwide by the end of 2019 was 479,800Behind this huge amount of data, it is conceivable that the environmental pollution caused by non-degradable plastic bags can be expectedThe environmental damage caused by plastic bags has in fact been a major concern of the international environmentOver the years, the international community has also been making a number of initiatives and calls for a reduction in the use of plastic bagsNot long ago, for example, Japan decided to require retail stores such as convenience stores, supermarkets and pharmacies to charge for plastic shopping bags from July 1st in an effort to curb the overuse of plastic bags and reduce pollution of the ocean by plastic wasteIt is reported that the price of plastic shopping bags will be determined by the merchants themselves, but can not be lower than the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan set a minimum of 1 yen (about 0.066 yuan)In addition to Japan, China, Britain, France, South Korea and other countries have already charged plastic shopping bagsAmong them, China from June 1, 2008, began to fully implement the system of paid use of plastic shopping bagsIn addition to charging for plastic shopping bags, some countries have even extended restrictions on the use of plastic from shopping bags to plates and strawsAt present, China's decision to ban the use of non-degradable plastic shopping bags from January 1 next year, can be said to be a more stringent "plastic ban", in the six months from the implementation of the people's production mode and consumption habits to set aside a buffer periodIn the industry's view, this initiative is conducive to raising public awareness of environmental protection, foster inglising consumers to bring their own shopping bags, encourage shopping bag manufacturers to produce some environmentally friendly biodegradable plastic shopping bags, while helping to guide drugstores and other platform merchants to use biodegradable packaging"The discontinuation of the use of non-degradable plastic shopping bags in the pharmaceutical retail industry may have an impact on traditional consumption patterns"Some pharmacy practitioners believe that it is conducive to changing unreasonable consumption patterns and reducing plastic pollutionAt the same time, consumers can use recyclable products in the process of daily purchase of medicines, gradually develop ingons of green consumption of new habits