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Environmental Hazards Of Shopping Bags

- Aug 14, 2017 -

It consumes 3 tons of oil per 1 tons of plastic. In China, the waste plastic that comes into landfills every year is 3%-5% of the weight of landfill waste, most of them are waste plastic shopping bags, especially ultra-thin plastic bags with a thickness of less than 0.025 mm.

Waste plastics are not easily degraded under natural conditions, causing long-term and potential ecological environment problems. One is the waste plastic packaging mixed in the soil, easy to cause soil compaction, affecting crops to absorb nutrients and moisture, resulting in crop production, and the second is to abandon the land or water in the waste plastic packaging, swallowed by animals as food, resulting in the death of animals is not uncommon; three is mixed with the waste in the waste plastic is difficult to deal with, mixed with waste plastic garbage is not suitable for composting treatment, sorting out of the waste plastic also can not guarantee the quality and difficult to use.