When the time comes to 2023, the problem of plastic bags that has attracted much attention in the past few years seems to be less concerned now, but is this really the case? Have people really stopped paying attention to plastic bags over time?

On June 1, 2008, China began to impose a tax on ultra-thin plastic bags. Terms such as "plastic restriction order" and "white pollution" have gradually begun to attract the attention of the general public. I don't know if you still know what is called "white pollution" in the past ten years. In short, it means that all kinds of domestic plastic products made of polystyrene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride and other polymer compounds are discarded after use and become pollution. Solid waste is difficult to be degraded due to random littering, resulting in serious pollution of the urban environment. In the past, plastic bags flying all over the sky and used by people without restraint are naturally the biggest culprit in "white pollution".

Over the years, the word "environmental protection" has become a common concern of our country and even the world. Therefore, on the issue of plastic bags, the country is bound to come up with countermeasures. Not only including the means of taxation mentioned above, we have also made great achievements in finding alternatives to plastic bags.

The first is the environmental protection bag. The ultra-thin plastic bags are taxed, the cost of use is greatly increased, and the cost performance is reduced. Naturally, people no longer choose it. At the same time, environmental protection bags are quietly emerging. The word "environmental protection" means degradable, so the materials of environmental protection bags may be various, but their common feature is that they can be reused and degrade quickly, which avoids the problem that ordinary plastic bags are easily damaged and cannot be degraded. However, there are also certain problems in the use of environmental protection bags. Some businesses are mercenary, and they have to shoddy in the production of small environmental protection bags. They use inferior raw materials to make environmental protection bags, which leads to the decline in the quality of environmental protection bags. Reuse is the difference between environmental protection bags and plastic bags. The original intention of making environmental protection bags is lost if they cannot be reused due to the decline in quality.

Second, the emergence of degradable plastic bags. Degradable plastic bags, as the name suggests, are plastic bags that can be degraded. Unlike the previous plastic bags, the production of degradable plastic bags adds some additives to ordinary plastics to make plastic bags easier to degrade. But after all, there is still plastic in its production, coupled with technical problems, it is still possible that degradable plastic bags cannot be completely degraded, and there is still a potential harm to the environment. Moreover, the additives added in the production process of degradable plastic bags also make recycling more difficult, and how to reuse them is currently an unsolved problem. Therefore, reducing or not using plastic bags is the most environmentally friendly approach.

From this point of view, our country has also thought of various ways to reduce the use of plastic bags, looking for strategies from different aspects. The problem of plastic bag pollution in our country has indeed been greatly resolved, so it is not that we no longer pay attention to the problem of "white pollution", but that the problem of "white pollution" in our country has indeed been greatly alleviated, unlike many years ago That's why the nationality has been reduced. However, "white pollution" still exists, and we also need to constantly overcome technical problems and find better ways to solve them.