Experts teach you how to identify "black tableware"

○ "Black tableware" features summary is six sentences jingles: hands soft, light strip on the break, a smell the pungent smell, in case of thermal deformation easy leakage, paraffin hand Pack with India, torn into the water sink

○ To distinguish whether or not a disposable tableware three strokes — a look, touch, smell the second

It is reported that in mid-2010, the Secretary-General of the International Association for food packaging dong in Beijing two famous hotel "old side dumplings" and "Motley" consumption Jian Dong, packaging, meal boxes rushed to the professional inspection bodies.

Test results show that their hexane evaporation residue are more than 20 times the national standards, and the evaporation residue of acetic acid for nearly 150 times over. These components, industrial calcium carbonate can affect the body's metabolism system, the formation of gallstones, kidney stones, which contain heavy metals impurities also poses a threat to human health of the digestive tract, central nervous system. As regards paraffin contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, affects the body's blood system, nervous system and digestive system, also cumulative toxicity and induced cancer.

Phenomenon

Disposable tableware annual demand of about 150 billion

Referring to the "black meal boxes", we must first mentioned one-off foaming plastic tableware.

Disposable foam plastic tableware in 1986 in China Railway began to use, due to the various railway discarded plastic garbage to the ecological and landscape resulted in severe damage, since 1995, our comprehensive ban on disposable foam plastic cutlery in the use of railway station, with easy degradable or place, recovery of materials requested by the end of 2000, a nationwide eliminated because of the serious environmental pollution and are classified as backward products of disposable foam plastic tableware, promoting the use of easy recovery, easy disposal or easily biodegradable types of environmentally friendly products.

January 1, 2009 officially implemented the People's Republic of China circular economy Promotion Act explicitly pointed out that the prohibition of the production, importation, sale included in the list of equipment phase-out, materials and products, the prohibition of the use of technology is included in the list of obsolete, technology, equipment and materials.

However, after ten years of the "no white", national size restaurant, retail vendors use of disposable tableware is still dominated by foam lunchboxes.

At present, China's annual disposable tableware needs about $ 150 billion, 90% is plastic tableware, which States explicitly obsolete foam plastic tableware accounted for about half, especially in Eastern and southern China economically developed areas, production and use of more than half of the country.

Since qualified price of disposable tableware in 0.15 $, in order to reduce production costs, some non-foamed plastic tableware manufacturing enterprises have begun to illegal production "black meal boxes".

These enterprises are used in the production of waste plastic from unknown sources and include a large number of industrial grade calcium carbonate, talcum powder, paraffin and other toxic raw materials, and even individual corporations products also exist such quality issues.

Specializing in "white pollution" governance and green packaging materials research and development of Beijing kai's environmental technology centre survey found that the current market sales of disposable styrofoam tableware comes mainly from the non-business license or license and business content are illegal enterprises.

The production of foamed plastic meal boxes are inexpensive, only 4 per cent, the price is far lower than the price of raw materials, as these products are mainly used waste CD, waste foam lunchboxes or shock-absorbing waste plastic packaging materials, etc.

Some unscrupulous companies in order to cover up the waste plastic trash people join the toxic of fluorescent whitening agents and toxic masterbatch, even in product dies suddenly on to deceive consumers "degradation of meal boxes," "environmentally-friendly meal boxes" and other words, the product quality has serious security implications.

Hazards

"Black tableware" seriously affected children's intelligence

"Black tableware" shocking production process.

These production enterprises generally take a "small workshop" type of production, a simple hut, a simple state machine as well as four or five workers can produce. Production use of raw materials or establishment of customs duty, once the product has the quality problem, there is no way to recall that retrospective is impossible.

This poor "black tableware" is generally used to identify sources of waste plastics, and also in the production of a large number of offending add industrial-grade calcium carbonate, talcum powder, fluorescent whitening agents and paraffin etc, these substances in the face of oil, acid and heat is solubility, which in turn is eaten by humans with food.

In 2009, December 1, the formal implementation of the national mandatory standards the plastic disposable tableware General technical requirements, the evaporation residue 4% acetic acid and evaporation residue hexane two health detection and chemical index, is the imitation of the disposable plastic tableware in acidic and oily condition of release from.

Standard requires two evaporation residue index of which is not higher than 30mg/L. After the examination, a large number of add industrial grade calcium carbonate, talcum powder and paraffin poor meal boxes evaporation residue indicators makes it difficult to comply with standard requirements, maximum overproof 260 times even, release from above in 8000mg/L. A total weight of only meal boxes typically less than 20 grams, that is, if long blooming with this meal boxes containing oil and vinegar of food, people will eat 1/3 of the lunch box.

The problems caused by poor quality food box is a health hazard.

Added the industrial grade calcium carbonate, talcum powder and paraffin of disposable tableware, the use of these hazardous constituents with acid, oil, sludge, enters the body, may cause dyspepsia, diseases such as liver injury, would seriously affect a child's intellectual development, and even can cause gallstones, kidney stones, heavy metal poisoning and even cancer.

Followed by environmental pollution.

Use of waste plastics and add a large number of industrial-grade calcium carbonate, talcum powder and wax production of poor quality meals and virtually no recycling value and can only be sent to landfill, resulting in tremendous waste of resources and environmental pollution.

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A second touch of three distinguished "black smelt, rippled"

Disposable tableware according to the different materials: plastic meal boxes, paper tableware, starch, rippled, wheat meal boxes etc, their standards are not the same.

To our usual most common disposable plastic meal boxes, for example, from 1 December 2009, the new national mandatory standards the plastic disposable tableware General technical requirements for the formal implementation, this is my first time as a disposable plastic tableware set national standards, over the past is not biodegradable disposable plastic tableware has no national uniform standards of chaos. Therefore, disposable plastic tableware production enterprises not only to obtain QS production license, the product quality also must meet the standards required in order to be called and qualified plastic tableware.

Currently available lots are using plastic meal boxes, paper and other materials for lunchboxes because of price and quality, use less.

For consumers, how do I tell if a disposable lunch box?

Simply put, you can take a second look, touch, smell of three methods:

A look at the first of the lunch box for the identity and number of QS; Secondly, to be seen whether the smooth surface of the lunch box, there is no impurity or black spots.

In General, the transparent plastic tableware is using purification production of polypropylene (PP), a high safety factor; colourful meal boxes, it is possible to use the waste plastic, so the color is darker, the less secure.

Second, is to touch the strength, the use of the lunch box recycling waste or significantly add industrial grade calcium carbonate, talcum powder production of meal boxes, the intensity is generally very poor, with a slight tear it apart.

Third, is the news there is a smell lunchboxes, qualified no smell smelling out lunch boxes is get.

"Black tableware" features summary is six sentences jingles: hands soft, light strip on the break, a smell the pungent smell, in case of thermal deformation easy leakage, paraffin hand Pack with India, torn into the water will sink.

You just remember the above radio jingles, you can easily tell whether or not a disposable tableware.

Additionally recommended consumers, for their health, and in order to protect the environment, please do not place or use disposable tableware, preferably with tableware package and dinner.

If you had to use a bad meal boxes best home fell into your own home security containers such as ceramics, glassware, microwave food next time more convenient and more secure.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)