Many young people have experienced this weekend:
It's almost twelve o'clock since Saturday morning. After waking up, lie in bed and open the takeaway APP to see if there is a takeaway that suits my appetite, then place an order and wait for the takeaway.
Catch up with the bad weather on Sunday, think of going to work on Monday, or even not going out for a day, and rely on APP to solve the problem of two meals at home.
The packaging of take-away food is becoming more and more fancy and exquisite.
These takeaways come to you after selection, production, packaging and distribution.
After dinner, when I think of cleaning up, several plastic boxes, several plastic bags, disposable chopsticks, straws, and maybe cigarette butts after dinner are thrown in the trash can downstairs with leftovers.
In fact, you may not think there is anything wrong with this series of operations, but it does have very serious problems.
According to the "20 17 China local life O2O industry research report" released by the third-party research organization iresearch, in 20 16, local life service O2O formed two modes: door-to-door service and store service, and the overall transaction scale of the industry was close to 700 billion.
The takeaway APP "Hungry" recently released China takeaway big data, showing that the number of users in the China market reached 600 million. In 20 16, online take-out users spent more than 3 times a week, accounting for 63.3%, and take-out dining became a routine way.
In other words, according to this consumption pattern, at least 400 million takeaways fly around the streets of China every week.
At least 400 million disposable packaging boxes and 400 million plastic bags were produced, and 400 million disposable tableware were discarded.
The average use time of a plastic bag is 25 minutes. For example, when it is sold outside, its task is roughly ten minutes from the delivery. Make sure your takeout is not confused with others'.
After the mission, these plastic bags are sent to landfills or directly poured into the sea.
The problem is that it takes at least 470 years for each plastic bag to degrade.
According to a report of the World Bank, in 2004, China has surpassed the United States to become the largest garbage producer in the world.
20 10 According to the statistics of China Urban Environmental Sanitation Association, China produces nearly 65,438 billion tons of garbage every year, including about 400 million tons of domestic garbage and about 500 million tons of construction garbage.
20 16, the news of "garbage dumping across regions" is not uncommon. In addition to selfishness, some cities have saturated garbage capacity and can only be transferred to other cities.
However, this is only an increase. The stock of urban domestic garbage dumps in China has exceeded 8 billion tons.
According to a survey data of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, more than two-thirds of the cities in China are surrounded by garbage, and a quarter of the cities have no suitable places to dump garbage, which has occupied 800,000 mu of land.
China's 40,000 townships and nearly 600,000 administrative villages produce more than 280 million tons of domestic garbage every year, which has exceeded the number of cities.
2065438+July 2006 1 day, 4,000 tons of garbage from Shanghai was dumped in Taihu Lake, Suzhou, and was caught red-handed.
When the land can't bear this weight, human beings turn their eyes to the ocean. Every year, about 8 million tons of plastics are dumped into the sea, and the dumping amount in China accounts for about 1/3.
According to this development speed, by 2025, every marine fish (calculated by a 1 kg) in the ocean will have 330 grams of plastic wandering in the sea area where it lives.
By 2050, the weight of plastic will exceed the weight of these marine fish themselves.
In early February, on the west coast of Norway, a whale was found stranded on the beach.
In order to study the cause of stranding, scientists dissected the whale and found that its stomach was full of 30 plastic bags, the longest of which was even 2.5 meters long!
A study once showed that almost all marine species now have plastic pollutants in their bodies, including the species farthest from human beings on earth.
Now, another research result of scientists also confirms this statement.
The deepest Mariana Trench in the world has a maximum depth of1091m, which is more than 2,000 meters higher than the highest peak on the land surface-Mount Everest.
It is too far away from the world where we live, so it has always been regarded as the most mysterious "pure land" on earth.
However, according to the latest research results of scientists, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which have been banned for a long time, have been found in organisms deep in the Mariana Trench.
Polychlorinated biphenyls are a carcinogen. 1968, 1979 rice bran oil was contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls, resulting in a large area of human poisoning and death. Together with the Chernobyl nuclear pollution incident, it ranks among the "top ten environmental pollution incidents in the 20th century".
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) easily accumulate in adipose tissue, causing diseases in the brain, skin and viscera, and affecting the nervous, reproductive and immune systems, which will lead to dozens of pathological changes in the human body and spread to the fetus through the mother's placenta or breastfeeding.
When the fetus grows up, there may be mental and physical retardation. After decades, most of the victims still have toxins that can't be discharged.
Scientists believe that the PCB residue found this time is likely to drift with animal carcasses and some plastic garbage and sink into the depths of the trench.
And many creatures will eat these harmful substances when foraging, thus forming a vicious circle.
However, most people's reaction may be, "Fortunately, I am not that poor fish in the ocean" or "Oh, what does this have to do with me?"
Then let's talk about it, and then, all these plastic wastes flow back to your food chain in an invisible form.
New Zealand has always been famous for its purity. However, in 20 17, Dr. Anna Malkic of the Marine Science Association of the University of Auckland discovered:
Among the 9 kinds of fish that can be caught commercially in New Zealand market, 8 kinds of fish have ingested plastic waste for a long time.
These plastics often contain carcinogens and other chemicals, which are likely to have a destructive impact on human health.
In addition to being converted into chemicals, plastics will enter your body in another form and continue to endanger your health. Scientists call this substance "plastic particles".
Plastic microbeads, also known as plastic microbeads or plastic soft beads.
Generally, it refers to plastic particles with a diameter of less than 2mm, which is a kind of microplastics, and the diameter is generally less than 2mm, so it is not easy to see with naked eyes.
In the fish markets in California and Indonesia, 1/4 of the fish contained plastic particles in their small intestines.
Where does this "plastic particle" come from?
An important source of plastic particles is people's daily personal care products, such as scrub cleanser, shower gel, toothpaste and cosmetics.
Another source is rayon fabrics such as polyester, nylon (nylon or polyamide), polypropylene, chlorine fiber, spandex (Lycra) and vinylon.
In other words, the clothes you wear are elastic, chiffon and chemical fiber fabrics. After washing, its plastic particles in water flow into rivers, lakes and seas through the water circulation system.
These plastic particles will absorb toxic pollutants (such as polychlorinated biphenyls) in the ocean. ), and because their morphology is very similar to fish eggs, they are easily eaten by other fish. Finally, the marine fish returned to the human table after fishing, and the cycle of the food chain system was successfully realized.
However, it is difficult for us to characterize the existence of such statistical results, because in the complex living environment we live in at present, there is no medical explanation for why various diseases occur.
Plastic particles with smaller diameter can enter tissue cells and accumulate in the liver, causing inflammatory reaction and chronic deposition poisoning.
It may also enter the blood and affect our endocrine system when it reaches a certain concentration. In an interesting way:
Every day when you are eating, you are in the Schrodinger state. You may or may not have eaten plastic, but opening the box may make you sick.
All this is very emotional, but are you really helpless and helpless?
Not exactly. The way to reduce pollution is to reduce the use of disposable plastic products.
In life, bringing your own cups to Starbucks, cooking or eating in restaurants as much as possible, reducing unnecessary online shopping and bringing your own shopping bags are all good choices to reduce pollution.
The ecological harm caused by the abuse of plastic bags and disposable tableware is by no means alarmist. Our people's awareness of environmental protection in this respect is quite lacking, which must be paid attention to.
20 17 New Year, China people spent in smog. In fact, in China, a more extensive, serious, far-reaching and lasting environmental pollution has already spread.
This is a garbage siege.
When garbage besieged the city, developed countries fell in poor countries, cities fell in the suburbs, and villages fell in the wilderness. ...
Upset, the earth will always be filled.
There are many planets in the universe, but there is only one earth.
Everyone should bear the responsibility of protecting the earth.
You can't decide that the factory won't smoke, you can't decide that the car won't go on the road, and you can't decide that the oil won't be mined.
However, you can decide to change your living habits.
Disposable plastic boxes are no longer used to reduce the environmental damage caused by white pollution.
For example, we can:
Bring your own shopping bag;
Carry reusable water bottles with you;
Bring your own cup;
Bring your own reusable lunch box/container;
Refuse to use non-degradable straws &; Tableware;
Try not to use plastic bags;
Try not to choose takeaway/takeaway;
Choose glass jars to keep food.
What you throw away,
I'll pay you back one day.