Plastic shopping bags national mandatory standard issued to mark food with a food bag

According to CCTV, the national compulsory standard plastic shopping bags in the official release on May 1, the standard effect from 1 June it will be enforced. 

Standards require that the thickness of plastic shopping bags not less than 0.025 mm, body bags must have a clear environmental statement produced. Standard plastic shopping bags for a clear classification, including ordinary plastic shopping bags, degradable plastic shopping bags and starch-based plastic shopping bags, so easy for consumers to identify and separation and recovery. Plastic shopping bags used in food must be marked "food with" words. June 1 does not meet the new standards from plastic shopping bags will be banned production and sales. 

China Plastics Recycling Plastics Association Professional Committee of the Golden Lion, vice president director, said of the illegal products are specified for shutdown state, or even 1 to 3 times to accept the punishment, confiscation of materials. Plastic bags of food production enterprises, if not required for production, at least to accept the 10 million penalty. 

Standard also provides the surface of the plastic shopping bags labeled with the production company should explain the names and addresses, the use of Raw material other production information, if there is quality problem, the law enforcement departments in a timely manner conducive to trace the source of production, the production company to be punished. 

Sources said the national mandatory standards of plastic shopping bags from the source limits the production of plastic bags, but to really reduce plastic bag pollution, but also requires each consumer in life personally. Experts, the current daily consumption of a variety of our country up to more than 30 billion plastic bags, if using only one plastic bag per person per day, and repeated use, can reduce the 2 billion per day the use of plastic bags. Therefore, minimize the use of plastic bags, and more environmentally friendly shopping bags, even to pick up the basket, is everyone's responsibility.