n February 26, 2013, Chinese National Development and Reform Committee issued Decree 21st for the local adjustments to the relevant clauses of "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalogue (2011)". One of them is removing disposable foam plastic tableware (the foamed tableware) in the eliminated products catalogue.
The public doubt a lot to the behavior of National Development and Reform Committee publishing "lifting a ban" of disposable foam plastic tableware. This behavior seems too abrupt. Foaming tableware was used in China as early as in 1986 on the railway. Due to the waste of plastic garbage have caused serious damage to the ecological and landscape along the railway, in 1991, the Ministry of Railways started the research and manage "white pollution" approach along the railway, and in May, 1995 completely prohibited using disposable foam plastic tableware in railway stations and trains, biodegradable tableware instead.
This "ban" is supported by the relevant ministries of the nation. However, in 14 years of "ban" period, under a case that no one can predict the answer and dispel public's security concerns, from "ban" to overnight "lift", such a policy is also full of a lot of questionable factors. The policy has too large deviation before and after, as it were "ice & fire", which cannot stop public's scientific concerns to the "lift" policy.
Secondly, it can not be ignored that there is a benefit shadow behind the "lift". Statistics show that in the past dozen years, green packaging branch of Chinese society for environmental sciences and China Plastic Association have made a lot of market research for disposable foam plastic tableware, reported to the relevant departments, and organized enterprises in the industry for industry self-regulation activities. The motivation of this sudden "lift" policy is questionable.
Thirdly, have security problems of disposable foam plastic tableware frozen for 14 years really been solved? Just two years ago, in August, 2010, the special report on the continuous broadcast of CCTV, exposed that a large number of enterprises in Guangdong Province imported waste plastics to produce foam plastic tableware. Public concerns about environmental pollution, secondary pollution. Has the national development and Reform Committee who published "lift" policy already have complete processing and follow-up measures?
A problem of disposable foam plastic tableware "lift" related to public health and environmental protection should not a decision made under a hasty. From the perspective of interests, the public has sufficient right to know. The public has full and reasonable reasons to know the cause and effect of "lift".
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