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Shopping bag and disposable dishes use restriction program

Absrtact	In order to achieve the source reduction goal, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) continues to promote the recycling and reuse of shopping plastics, forbid the use of various disposal tableware within government agencies and public and private schools, restrict the use of plastic tray and packing box policy, and investigate the current condition of use and reduction for the controlled subjects. Besides, the control measures and suggestion as well as the supplementary measures concerning PVC bag and film products are assessed. The contents of work completed in this plan include: The trial plastic bag recycling program has been implemented in 15 cities and counties since May 1, 2006. The total of 14 cities and counties has recovered 2,043,372 kilograms of waste plastic bags by November 30. Consulting the annual reduction way of plastic packing material in Korea to help stipulate the draft of “Plastic Tray and Packing Box Use Restriction Policy”, the goal is to reduce 25% of plastic tray and packing box used in mass merchants and supermarkets every year. As for the plastic shopping bags, the investigation result shows the number reduction rate is 58.37%, the weight reduction rate is 79.75%, so the number reduction rate of whole shopping bags is 53.52%. As for the plastic disposable tableware, the number and weight reduction rate is 85.53% and 81.26%, respectively. But the consumption number of whole disposable tableware reduces 1.39%, the weight increases 13.08%. It shows the implementation of this policy still has the efficacy to reduce the use of disposable tableware. After collecting the industrial situation of domestic PVC bag and film industry, four kinds of PVC bag and film products are studied. Among them, home plastic wrap and PVC bag are not feasible due to the impact of industry. PVC card is not feasible due to the acceptance degree of product and the impact of industry. The feasibility of beverage bottle label is higher, so it is suggested to be controlled in priority.
Keyword	Plastic use restriction policy, PVC products limited, Disposable tableware

Absrtact

In order to achieve the source reduction goal, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) continues to promote the recycling and reuse of shopping plastics, forbid the use of various disposal tableware within government agencies and public and private schools, restrict the use of plastic tray and packing box policy, and investigate the current condition of use and reduction for the controlled subjects. Besides, the control measures and suggestion as well as the supplementary measures concerning PVC bag and film products are assessed. The contents of work completed in this plan include: The trial plastic bag recycling program has been implemented in 15 cities and counties since May 1, 2006. The total of 14 cities and counties has recovered 2,043,372 kilograms of waste plastic bags by November 30. Consulting the annual reduction way of plastic packing material in Korea to help stipulate the draft of “Plastic Tray and Packing Box Use Restriction Policy”, the goal is to reduce 25% of plastic tray and packing box used in mass merchants and supermarkets every year. As for the plastic shopping bags, the investigation result shows the number reduction rate is 58.37%, the weight reduction rate is 79.75%, so the number reduction rate of whole shopping bags is 53.52%. As for the plastic disposable tableware, the number and weight reduction rate is 85.53% and 81.26%, respectively. But the consumption number of whole disposable tableware reduces 1.39%, the weight increases 13.08%. It shows the implementation of this policy still has the efficacy to reduce the use of disposable tableware. After collecting the industrial situation of domestic PVC bag and film industry, four kinds of PVC bag and film products are studied. Among them, home plastic wrap and PVC bag are not feasible due to the impact of industry. PVC card is not feasible due to the acceptance degree of product and the impact of industry. The feasibility of beverage bottle label is higher, so it is suggested to be controlled in priority.

Keyword

Plastic use restriction policy, PVC products limited, Disposable tableware