"Plastic limit order" began, some consumers and businesses to start using paper bags and paper packaging products, such non-degradable plastic bags compared to that be more in environmental protection? Environmental experts, the answer is no.
Although paper bags can degrade in the natural environment, but in the papermaking process caused by consumption of energy resources and environmental pollution is more serious than plastic shopping bags. According to the American Chemical Society statistics, manufacturing plastic grocery bags required less than 40% of raw materials, one pound of plastic energy required to produce 1 pound of paper than the energy needed to produce 91% less, compared with plastic, paper bag The manufacture and use of multi-gas emissions generated 70%.

Guangzhou Research Institute of the ecological environment, said Zhang Jinhong, shopping gift paper bag, if using a large number of native manufacture of paper, of course, the trees would be detrimental to the environmental impact, but, if extensive use of recycled paper manufacturing, on another matter. Why would our utilization of recycled paper so low? This is because we do not have a good spam classification system to maintain the renewable resource items.

Sun Yat-sen Earth Environment and Earth Resources Research Center, Professor Nelson Chow chapter that "the plastic bag so that" the essence is to encourage rejected a one-time use and adhere to green way of life, as long as reusable involuntary disposal, we aim to achieve, while not that you are using plastic bags or paper bags. Yong-Zhang also said that calculations had been done, China's implementation of "Plastic Limit Order" after the use of plastic bags will decrease at least 2 / 3.