Shanghai prohibits restaurants from offering disposable chopsticks. Can recycling utensils be safe and hygienic?

The "Regulations on the Management of Domestic Waste in Shanghai" will be officially implemented on July 1. The regulations stipulate that "catering services and distribution services shall not provide disposable tableware." The regulations triggered a hot discussion among netizens. Some netizens suggested that the new regulations would be inconvenient for office workers, and some citizens expressed their approval for the regulations.

In real life, whether the customer goes to the restaurant to eat, or the customer orders on the Internet, the restaurant generally provides disposable chopsticks, spoons, and other tableware. Although it is convenient for restaurants and customers, after eating, you can throw away the tableware directly without cleaning, but it is obvious that it not only causes a huge waste of resources but also creates a lot of domestic garbage for the city, causing environmental and health problems.

Statistics show that as early as 2013, China produced more than 80 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks per year, which is equivalent to cutting down 20 million trees that have been growing for 20 years.

Shanghai legislation stipulates that restaurants are not allowed to provide customers with disposable chopsticks, spoons and other tableware, and a penalty mechanism. This obviously helps to reduce the use of disposable tableware, reduce the waste and pollution of disposable tableware, and meet the trend and requirements of low-carbon environmental protection and green living.

From the perspective of life needs, disposable chopsticks and spoons are not essential. Customers can bring their own chopsticks, spoons and other tableware for recycling. It is not too much trouble to clean them yourself. From this perspective, Shanghai legislation prohibits restaurants from offering disposable tableware to customers. This is necessary, and restaurants should be prohibited from providing disposable chopsticks, spoons and other utensils from the top-level design.

However, the key issue is to avoid the ban on the use of disposable chopsticks to re-enact the "plastic limit order", which is "a piece of paper". This requires recyclable tableware provided by the restaurant to ensure hygiene and safety, and to allow customers to use it with confidence.

Many people go to restaurants to eat, preferring to use disposable chopsticks, spoons, and other tableware, and do not choose to use reusable chopsticks, spoons, and other tableware, and even customers choose to use disposable chopsticks, spoons, and other tableware. Vote for the feet. In the final analysis, people mainly do not feel comfortable with recyclable chopsticks, spoons and other utensils provided by restaurants. They feel that they are not hygienic and safe.

Because many restaurants in order to save costs, the tableware disinfection machine in the store is basically a display, rarely used normally. Moreover, many restaurants provide recyclable chopsticks, spoons and other tableware often cleaned very dirty, sometimes visible directly to the naked eye. In comparison, disposable chopsticks, spoons, and other tableware may be bleached with sulfur. The residual amount of sulfur dioxide above is excessive, which is harmful to the human body. However, customers are generally difficult to see through the naked eye, which can satisfy customers’ eyes. "psychological.

Therefore, after prohibiting restaurants to provide disposable chopsticks, spoons and other tableware, the market supervision department must strengthen the supervision of the catering enterprises to recycle the tableware health and safety, and force the catering enterprises to increase manpower, put into cleaning, disinfect and recycle the tableware, and ensure that the tableware is ensured. The safety and hygiene of the tableware can be recycled, and the customer's mentality of recyclable tableware is not relieved.

Only the customer can use the recyclable tableware with utmost care to guide the public to refuse to use disposable chopsticks, spoons, and other tableware. Otherwise, everything will be empty talk. Because regardless of whether the restaurant actively provides disposable chopsticks, spoons, and other tableware, the final choice is in the hands of the customer.

By Best Chopsticks