Reasons For Prohibition Of Disposable Products

The Chinese government stipulates that the production, sale and use of disposable foam plastic tableware shall be prohibited from January 1, 2001 for the following reasons:

1. Foam plastic tableware is difficult to recycle after being used up;

2. The blowing agent used in the production of some enterprises is butane (that is, the gas of the lighter), which is easy to catch fire and unsafe;

3. At high temperature (>65℃), harmful substances are easy to dissolve and unsafe to use, especially when used in microwave ovens, it is easy to melt;

4. The product has a large volume and is inconvenient for transportation and storage;

5. Not easy to decompose, pollute the environment and be harmful to human body;

6. Alternative products (corn starch tableware) appear.