Inferior meal box: toxin source
"Be careful, oil! Oil!" Don't get me wrong. This is not the government's call for oil restriction slogans, nor is it the gossip of oil price increases. It is just that one person who has just finished eating from a restaurant is holding a lunch box for another. Peer's reminder.
Looking through the sound, I saw the plastic bag under the lunch box had changed color. The red oily soup had already leaked out of the box. The plastic bag was also dyed yellow from white. The oil leak in the lunch box was extremely disgusting. The man wearing light-colored pants carrying the lunch box was really worried about being accidentally oiled. Fortunately, the companion reminded him that the danger was eliminated.
But is this crisis really lifted? Will there still be a potential crisis?
The answer is not only existence, but also urgent.
A few days ago, the reporter visited Qiqi City with a disposable lunch box production, sales, and plastic packaging bag distribution market with a group of members of the Economic Committee of the Qiqihar Municipal Economic Committee and the City Packaging Office. Jinchuang Tableware Co., Ltd. and Jinlong Tableware Co., Ltd. are currently two companies that formally produce environmentally-friendly decomposing lunch boxes in Qi City. Jinchuang Company, with an annual production capacity of 9.6 million, has occupied 80% of Qi City's environmentally-friendly degradable lunch boxes. And are exported to Harbin, Changchun, Dalian and other places. However, talking about the impact and impact of counterfeit bio-degradable lunch boxes on the formal product market, Miao Yanjuan, general manager of the company, was still helpless. She said that there are unanticipated products in the market is expected, it is to see the extent of its exceeded. The cost of a qualified lunch box made by a regular manufacturer must be at least 0.07 yuan, and the so-called environmentally friendly degradable lunch boxes with a wholesale price of only 78 cents are very doubtful.
The reporter learned from various sources that this cheap lunch box worth only seventy-eight cents is very large in the market. Some small restaurants, Mala Tang, Liangpi, and cold noodles are used in lunch boxes or foamed lunch boxes. Or is that kind of soft plastic lunch box. What is most worrying now is that even after consumers have packed up for meals, almost no one notices the origin of the lunch boxes. Even shopping in supermarkets, although careful consumers will pay attention to relevant information such as product manufacturers and production dates, they will not really understand whether food packaging itself has potential safety hazards. In the previous few days, the reporter had made unannounced visits to the pre-station market. In a wholesale department called “Lijie Miscellaneous”, a box of disposable lunch boxes without any plant name was sold here. The female shop owner told reporters that each box contained 12 large boxes, and each large box contained 70 small boxes. The wholesale price was 70 yuan. The reporter calculated the batch price of each meal box should be 0.083 yuan, then the factory price should be more. Low, in accordance with the real environmental degradation of the cost of lunch boxes have to be 0.07 yuan more than speculated that this manufacturer does not lose money in the sale? The answer is self-evident.
Although after many years of publicity by the government and various media, many consumers have accepted the concept of using environmental protection to decompose lunch boxes. However, there are not many people who really pay attention to whether they use environmentally-friendly lunch boxes. The question of whether or not some lunch boxes containing various kinds of small food products also exists is ignored by many people. Also in this visit, the reporter saw a lot of foam or plastic lunch boxes filled with various kinds of direct-entry fruit preserves, dried fruit, and hot pot seasonings on the counter.
According to the staff of the packaging office, some businesses are not only adding industrial paraffin, talcum powder, calcium carbonate and other harmful substances in disposable lunch boxes in order to reduce costs, but also using industrial-grade raw materials to replace food-grade raw materials, and some even use waste plastics. The source of these waste plastics is even more complicated, and some even come from medical waste or pesticide bottles. There are also some merchants who add some dark coloring agents in order to mask the impurities in the raw materials. This undoubtedly laid a hidden danger for people's health. A poor quality lunch box is a miniature "toxin factory" if it is filled with steamy meals. When some inferior packaging boxes are met with acid and water, the lead, cadmium and other heavy metals in the packing box are easily dissolved, and these harmful substances are also It is easily dissolved in food. If you ingest it for a long time, it will not only lead to indigestion, but it will also lead to gallstones and liver diseases. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons contained in industrial paraffins used for food packaging may even cause cancer.
Convenient bag: Do you not discuss
Let us first follow a small convenient bag to see the fate of its life -
First stop: Vegetable Market
I am a non-toxic plastic bag made of polyethylene. Our family is huge. There are polystyrene for the disposable plastic lunch box used by humans, polypropylene for plastic water pipes, and helmets for production. ABS and so on.
Yesterday morning, along with hundreds of compatriots, I was sent to the market to become a convenient bag for traders to buy food. A middle-aged woman came to my master and bought a bunch of food and put it in my stomach. My role is initially manifested at this moment.
Second stop: trash
Afterwards, the woman walked me all the way. I saw some of my compatriots abandoned on the road. There were also some fellow countrymen dancing in the air with the wind. They did not have a home.
Not long after, I came to this woman's home. After cleaning up the vegetables in my stomach, she saw that my stomach was not broken and she was placed in a new position - on the trash. After one noon, my stomach was full of discarded leaves and leftovers.
In the afternoon of the same day, the woman took me downstairs and stood in front of a large trash can and threw me in. The smell was bad inside. Like all other compatriots, I was covered with dirt and bacteria that the human eye could not see. My function ended.
Third stop: Waste disposal site
Having endured a few hours of odor and dirt, I finally "reviewed the sky." A worker packed our compatriots in our buckets into a closed transport vehicle. In this car, I saw more compatriots like me who were dirty and full of bacteria. After more than an hour of bumps, we arrived at a vast waste disposal site. There were no residential areas around and there were a lot of garbage, including my compatriots and some food wastes that had been corrupted beyond recognition.
After we were dumped into a huge pit by a human being, a huge compactor came to us. Many of my countrymen ended their lives on the ground and were buried underground, but they still can Living in the ground for more than 200 years, gradually changing the composition of the surrounding soil, allowing the land to reduce production or even suffer from pollution and unable to grow crops.
I was lucky that after a gale, I fluttered in the air and left here to begin a new journey that no other compatriot could ever experience.
Fourth stop: Waste Recycling Station
After several hours of intermittent, up and down air travel, I landed in an urban corner, thinking about my next home, when a middle-aged man picked me up and put it on a tricycle. , shipped to the waste recycling station.
I was surprised to see that in addition to many plastic bottles in the car, there was a thick stack of my relatives - cheap plastic bags made of polyvinyl chloride. These cheap plastic bags are poisonous. If used to contain foods, the poisonous gases in their bodies will infiltrate into foods. After eating such foods, they will cause accumulated lead poisoning and even cause cancer. Some unsuspecting people also use them to cover them. Eating hot food on the bowl, they do not know that when the temperature exceeds 50 °C, the body's lead is more likely to dissolve into food.
Fifth Station: Small Factory
Afterwards, we were pulled into a suburban factory where it was crowded with a hill where we had piled up. The workers figured out how to save money and instead of cleaning us with special cleaning equipment, we covered our dirt. The guy shoveled into a big, dark pool and washed it.
A few dozen minutes later, my relatives, as well as those industrial waste and medical waste, entered the machine and, after melting and cooling, were made into small, colorful particles. In the process, I turned from a non-toxic polyethylene to a hybrid and became a communicator of human health.
A few hours later, I was remade into a plastic bag. Once again, it became a convenient bag in people's lives. My toxicity began to slowly dip into people's lives.
Potential health risks
Lens 1: Every morning, before some food stalls, the diners were holding hot sticks wrapped in plastic bags in one hand and the milk in a bowl filled with plastic bags. They ate and ate. Others brought hot breakfast in plastic bags and brought them home to give to their loved ones. Many people think that this is both hygienic and convenient. At noon, the reporter went to a row of food stalls on the west side of Xinkai Road Market and saw a lot of such foods. Cold noodles, beef tendon noodles, and big porridge were all served in convenient bags on the bowl. .
Lens 2: In some food stores on the street, there are all kinds of candied cakes, as well as various small pieces of melon seeds, sweet potatoes and other small foods. Many people only noticed the deliciousness of plastic bags, but did not care about the potential danger of this package. .
The packing office staff told reporters that polyethylene and polypropylene are safe plastics. People can use it to hold foods. However, due to the high cost of producing plastic bags, at present, we often see some red, black, green, and milk in the market. White plastic bags, the production of raw materials for the recovery of some of the plastic bags, such plastic bags and more with some of the cheap made of polyvinyl chloride, in the process of making films need to add a lot of plasticizers and stabilizers. Such additives can cause the reduction of red blood cells in the human blood and be carcinogenic under certain circumstances. Some people put a plastic bag on the outside of the bowl for health reasons. In fact, the bag itself has germs, and if the food temperature exceeds 50°C, the lead contained in the bag will dissolve into the food more easily and cause chronic poisoning. Long-term consumption of foods wrapped in such plastic bags is more likely to be chemically contaminated. For example, polyvinyl chloride plastic is a polymer of vinyl chloride. When it is in direct contact with food for a long time, vinyl chloride can migrate to food, and vinyl chloride can damage it. Human nerves, liver. In addition, because of its structural stability, plastics are not easily destroyed by natural microbial organisms and do not decompose in the natural environment for a long time. Generally, they will be degraded after landfilling for more than 200 years. “White trash” has become the tangible pollution of people’s lives now and in the future, only people There is a lack of understanding of the harmful effects of white pollution, so it has not been effectively contained in the process of recycling, production, and distribution. Some people even use medical waste as a raw material to make plastic products. If the discarded lunch boxes and plastic bags are incinerated, more than 10 kinds of toxic gases will be generated, which will directly cause air pollution.
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