CCTV News:Disposable items provide great convenience to our lives. But while convenient, it also brings problems of waste of resources and environmental pollution. In order to reduce waste generation at the source, recently, the "Beijing Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations" have been revised and will come into effect on May 1 next year. It is pointed out that Beijing takeaway will no longer take the initiative to provide disposable tableware.
The revised regulations stipulate that food and beverage operators, food and beverage distribution service providers and hotel business units shall not actively provide consumers with disposable chopsticks, forks, spoons, toiletries, etc., and shall set up eye-catching prompt signs. Once violations are made, the comprehensive law enforcement department of urban management will order immediate corrections and impose a fine of not less than 5,000 yuan but not more than 10,000 yuan; if the regulations are violated again, a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan and not more than 50,000 yuan will be imposed. Before May next year, Beijing will formulate a detailed catalogue of disposable products.
In addition, the environmental problems caused by massive express packaging waste cannot be ignored. The "Regulations" stipulate that express delivery enterprises should use electronic waybills and degradable and repurposed environmentally friendly packaging materials to reduce the overuse of packaging materials and encourage them to take measures to recycle packaging materials.
This time, the punishment for mixed shipment of receiving and transporting vehicles has also been increased. The "Regulations" stipulate that units that collect and transport domestic garbage shall classify and transport domestic garbage to centralized collection facilities or transshipment and treatment facilities that meet the regulations, and shall not mix and transport, and shall not be dumped, discarded, scattered or stacked at will. For those who violate the regulations, the penalty limit shall be adjusted from the previous 5,000 yuan to less than 50,000 yuan to more than 20,000 yuan and less than 100,000 yuan. If the circumstances are serious, the license for collecting and transporting domestic garbage shall be revoked.
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