PS foam tableware after 14 years finally got lifted

In February 26th, the national development and Reform Commission issued twenty-first orders, and made a partial adjustment to the related items of the Guiding Catalogue of industrial structure adjustment (2011 Edition), and deleted the disposable PS foamed plastic tableware in the elimination catalogue. This means that disposable PS foam plastic tableware is reborn after being banned for 14 years.
Cao Jian, deputy director of the China Plastics Processing Industry Association, Cao Jian told reporters that in the 14 years after being banned, one of the main reasons for the recovery of the legal market status of disposable PS foamed plastic tableware has two aspects: first, the product itself has high performance price ratio, special oil resistance, water resistance and thermal insulation performance, low consumption of raw materials and low waste production, which can not be compared with other materials. Potential is a safe, green and environmentally friendly packaging material. Two in recent years, more and more people have realized that one time PS foamed plastic tableware itself is not the culprit of white pollution. Strengthening recycling management and reuse is the root of eliminating white pollution. The reuse technology of disposable PS foamed plastic tableware is also increasing in our country.
Li Peisheng, director of the joint office of China plastic tableware, and Li Peisheng, honorary president of the green packaging branch of the China Environmental Science Society, stressed that after establishing a new market position, China should set up and establish the mechanism and related standards for recycling and reuse as soon as possible. Related enterprises must strictly enforce product quality management and continuously improve product quality.
It is reported that in the past ten years, the green packaging branch of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences and the China Plastics Processing Industry Association have made a large number of market investigations for the one-time PS foamed tableware, and have reported the situation to the relevant national management departments many times, and organized the industry self-discipline action of the industry, signed the product quality safety promise and the environmental protection recovery responsibility guarantee. Certificate. The result of the market survey shows that, although it has been banned early, the disposable PS foamed plastic tableware has been thrown up to more than 70% in the whole country's disposable fast food.
Li Peisheng said that the national development and Reform Commission's adjustment to the positioning of disposable PS foamed plastic tableware not only complied with the implementation of Scientific Outlook on Development's big trend, but also played a positive role in promoting the implementation of the recycling economy and green development strategy in the plastic packaging industry.
According to the reporters, the first batch of PS foamed tableware was first listed in the list of backward products for the first time, which was issued by the former State Economic and Trade Commission in February 1999 (the first batch). Since then, the "industrial structure adjustment directories" issued by the national development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in 2005 and 2011, the disposable PS foamed tableware were included in the elimination products twice.