Since June 1, 2008 afternoon, all the supermarkets, shopping malls, marketplaces and other places of retail shall practise a system of paid use of plastic shopping bags, shall provide free plastic shopping bags. Retail plastic shopping bags must be plain code marks a price, and in the commodity price is the money charged plastic shopping bags, shall not be provided free of charge or the plastic shopping bag price implied in commodity prices combined charge. Make the regulations of the state, not to can not pass with the consumers, but because of the degradation of plastic needs to be more than 200 years, once the pollution cause, very difficult to control. In China as the country with the largest number of production, the use of plastic products, plastic pollution of repeated accumulation, will bring disaster to our descendants, especially waste of agricultural film, plastic bags and foam plastic tableware, etc., will pollute soil, water source, formation of serious pollution. Therefore, reduce the use of plastic bags, and to eliminate the white pollution, improve environmental quality has a positive meaning. Is, therefore, the above notice, evoke a strong repercussion among the society

　　Six departments, such as national development and reform commission recently issued a notice, from July to August this year will be carried out in the national focus on special action limit production and sales of plastic shopping bags, prohibited or covert provide free plastic shopping bags free of charge, in violation of provisions of retail operators, especially the market owners will give punishment.

　　Since June 1, 2008 since the implementation of the "plastic limit order" in China, the supermarket plastic shopping bags have already realize paid use, but in real life each big supermarket is still significant in the use of plastic shopping bags, with a few people environmental protection shopping bags to the supermarket shopping. As for free from the regulation of all kinds of the farmer's market, distribution center of the largest in plastic shopping bags, many places still provide free plastic bags, "plastic limit order" has in embarrassment.

　　Actually, for the consumer, has never really free plastic bags - on paper provided by the merchant free plastic bags, actually already included in the business operating costs, and ultimately passed on to consumers. However, after separate charging plastic bags, how much do you charge for content or just more out of a can affect consumers - despite the amount is little, but, after all, the damage can be avoided. In fact, this is the "plastic limit order" original purpose - hope that through the regulation of price lever to change people's shopping habits.

　　But the reality is that, in the face of deeply ingrained habits of consumption, the role of price lever is not very desirable, its reason not just because environmental protection bag to carry inconvenience, even eyesore, but also because under the background of the residents' income level increased significantly, the plastic bag won't even charge value "sa walnut two jujube", in addition, a lot of people because of environmental protection concepts backward, "plastic limit order" is a lack of enough understanding and support, so that the reasonably, became "wishful thinking" of related functional departments. What's more, all the more for pay to confidently make "white pollution".

　　"Plastic limit order" itself is only a reminder and told that aims to inspire people's environmental protection consciousness, rather than to create additional revenue for businesses. Therefore, the "plastic limit order" can play a positive role, more and more depends on our moral self-discipline, and on the basis of the formation of public responsibility consciousness. It is obvious that if the lack of public participation, no matter how much effort, functional departments pay to reduce the purpose of the "white pollution" is also difficult to achieve.

　　"Plastic limit order", of course, to some extent is only an expedient measure, finally implement the "plastic limit order", essentially will need to spend big countries on relevant alternatives industry development of biodegradable environmental protection products. For example, can consider to subsidise related technology research and development of the enterprise, tax breaks for biodegradable products, as to block the "white pollution" on the origin, give the public more convenient environmentally friendly alternatives. The "plastic limit order" with China almost at the same time, the British launched "plastic-bag free movement", aims to encourage businesses and customers to use environmental protection shopping bag, reduce the pollution of the environment by plastic bags. Is for reference, and focuses on the punishment China merchants, Britain is focused on by bonus points or lottery, encourage customers don't use plastic bags or reusable shopping bags, this method is quite effective in practice.

　　Along with the environmental protection pressure and resist the "white pollution" has become a global consensus, more and more countries banned the use of plastic shopping bags, how to achieve the desired effect, tests the administrative management wisdom. Sanctions and pure merchants, compared to oblige them to transfer the cost to consumers by free alternatives to attract consumers to participate in more practical significance undoubtedly -- only consciously involved, consumers shopping habits will change for a long time.

　　Article links: China plastic machinery network at http://www.86pla.com/news/detail/7502.html