Takeout garbage is almost recycled

"Every time I order takeout food recently, or on the outside packaging in restaurant, I always feel the evil, as it looks like to manufacture of white pollution." Ms. King in Shenzhen, order takeout food once a week on average.She told reporters, each takeaway food almost contain plastic lunch boxes box, plastic bags and disposable chopsticks, but where they go?

Zhongxin Net reporters found that it is a current widespread problem with take-away garbage recycling. Disposable chopsticks, plastic bags, foam lunch boxes basic is in unattended recovery state, although the transparent plastic lunch boxes can be recycled, but also the amount of recycling is less.

Zhongxin net reporter consulted a number of staff responsible for waste recycling. In Beijing Fangzhuang who is engaged in recycling Master Li told reporters, transparent pure polypropylene (PP) plastic lunch boxes can be recycled, the purchase price is 3 RMB / kg, foam lunch boxes and other types of substantially non-takeaway meal is not recycling which is too cheap and it is too difficult to sell after cleaning.

In Beijing Chaoyang district who isengaged in recycling of used material Mr Liu told reporters that the foam lunch boxes are generally not recycled, transparent PP plastic lunch box recycling price is 2 RMB / kg, and it must be clean."Transparent PP plastic lunch boxes will sell to recycling plastic processing plants, factories will be crushed into granules and then made into other plastic products."

"Some white foam lunch boxes in the site are still very common." Analysts Di Qiuping told to WASHINGTON reporter said that foam lunch boxes are cheap, a few cents per pcs. Few people recycle because cleaning is very troublesome but with little recovery

Takeaway delivery staff Mr Lo who is working in Tiantongyuan district for more than two years told reporters that currently formal restaurant mostly uses transparent lunch boxes, occasionally uses foam lunch boxes loaded with rice. Although I heard a transparent food boxes can be recycled, but not no one had recovered, usually scavengers to pick. Polystyrene lunch boxes can be recycled and waste and polystyrene recycling will develop better and better.