Trust everyone must be very familiar with disposable products, we can see disposable products everywhere, such as disposable chopsticks, disposable lunch boxes, disposable plastic bags, these disposable products have brought a lot of convenience to our life, but we must also understand that disposable products are harmful. For example, disposable products will pollute the environment and affect our health.
In our life, there are many people use disposable products, it seems that our life has been inseparable from the use of disposable products. As everyone knows, disposable consumption is indeed a “double-edged sword” in modern society. It is not only a symbol of material abundance, convenience and speed, but also acts as an “accelerator” of turning resources into garbage. A large amount of energy and resources have been “one-time” waste, environmental pollution is also due to one “one-time” and intensified. But is it really that convenient? Do people think about the harm they do to us humans? … Faced with a deteriorating livelihood environment, human beings are deeply fearful; But in the same ordinary life, there are still so many actions that damage the environment as a value…
The harm of disposable products to us is really too great, such as disposable chopsticks; Disposable lunch box; Disposable batteries; Disposable plastic bags and so on… Now let me discuss some of the dangers of disposable products.
Take just one example — the disposable plastic pocket that we use the most.
Plastic bags have proliferated all over the world, especially in Asia. For example, Taiwan, with a population of 22 million, goes through 20 billion plastic bags a year, or more than 900 per person. Plastic bags not only pollute the environment, they do great harm! Plastic bags clog drains, which can lead to flooding and the spread of disease. I’ve heard of Marine life being killed by plastic bags. For example, some sea turtles suffocate after swallowing plastic bags. Plastic bags also spread air pollution. Because many are incinerated with other rubbish, they can spread dioxin (dioxin) into the air, which can be fatal in excess.
The harm of plastic bags is summarized in the following 4 points in detail:
1. Plastic is a high polymer, not easy to degrade, take hundreds of years to analyze. Therefore, it causes pollution and public hazards.
2. The city environment is damaged. Abandoned plastic products can be seen everywhere, damaging the landscape and affecting the image of the city.
3. Harm to human health. Abandoned plastic products are harmful to human health if they are stuck with pollutants.
4. Affect crop growth. After the plastic film used in farmland is aged, it will be broken and left in the field without decomposition, affecting crop harvest.
Another example is the harm of disposable wooden chopsticks:
(45,000 pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks =1 cubic meter of wood) China is a major exporter of disposable wooden chopsticks, with only 16.55 percent of the total forest cover. The disposable chopsticks industry in northern China exports 15 billion pairs of wooden chopsticks to Japan and South Korea every year. In addition to wasting wood, disposable chopsticks are not environmentally friendly. Another reason is that they waste water, causing the loss of water resources. There are usually three ways to bleach disposable chopsticks. Sulfur dioxide, hydrogen peroxide or calcium hypochlorite (sodium) are used for bleaching. After bleaching in all three ways, a lot of water is needed to cook or rinse.
But in the real world, no one uses that much water. It is reported that 93% of disposable chopsticks on the market in Taipei are bleached by sulfur dioxide fumigation. The longer the fumigation time, the whiter the chopsticks are and the more sour they smell. Manufacturers usually ignore the boiling step after bleaching by sulfur dioxide fumigation. The residual sulfur dioxide combines with other substances to form sulfites, which are thought by the medical community to cause asthma. So far, there is no hygienic hone measure for disposable chopsticks.
Data shows that disposable chopsticks were discovered by the Japanese. Japan is 65 percent forested, yet they don’t cut down trees on their own rivers and mountains to make disposable chopsticks. They rely on the entrance. China, with less than 17 percent forest coverage, is a big exporter of disposable chopsticks. The Chinese market consumes 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks each year, consuming 1.66 million cubic meters of wood, according to the materials. In Beijing alone, 800,000 disposable lunch boxes and chopsticks are consumed every day. That’s 292 million units 365 days a year. One pair of disposable chopsticks weighs 5.5 grams, and 292 million chopsticks weigh 1,606 tons, which is equivalent to 3,212 cubic meters of wood, excluding waste such as skin, heart, edge and sawdust. Experts have long pointed out that the widespread use of disposable chopsticks in China, a country with 1.2 billion people, is a great waste of forestry resources.
However, it is this one-meal-and-throw-away apparatus that is accelerating the destruction of forests. Forests are converters of carbon dioxide, generators of rainfall, controllers of flooding and cherished areas of biodiversity. These effects are by no means superseded by the benefits of producing disposable chopsticks.
The above information explains: in fact, disposable items are of great harm to our human life.
Just to make sure everyone knows how dangerous they can be, let me mention one more disposable item. Well, it’s you — batteries!
A typical battery is loaded with heavy metals — cadmium, mercury, manganese, etc. As they rot and waste in nature, these toxic substances gradually spill out of the batteries, into the soil or water, and then into the food chain through crops. These toxic substances in the human body will be durable accumulation difficult to clean, damage the nervous system, hematopoietic effect, kidney and bone, and some can cause cancer. Discarded batteries contain metals that could one day be eaten by themselves.
So, in the future, we human beings must reduce this aspect of pollution, say “no” to them, because they are really too great pollution to people, career, environment, they threaten the health of the human body, so as to continue, our mother Earth sooner or later will suffer in the hands of our human beings, in order to keep her youthful beauty, we should cherish the environment, Refuse to pollute.
In the above article we introduced what is disposable products, we can see disposable products around in our career, but disposable products are harmful, so that we must be serious in the use of disposable products at the moment.
