Many people are aware of the harm of food delivery waste to the environment

The food delivery packaging waste has caused a significant increase in the amount of urban household waste. The capacity and end treatment capacity of a city's sanitation system, such as landfills and incineration sites, are limited, and the pressure on the city's sanitation system is very high now. Most regions have started to gradually ban plastic and introduce disposable biodegradable tableware products.
 
According to the data released by Meituan takeaway, Elema, Baidu takeaway and other Internet takeaway platforms, the total daily order volume of the three takeaway platforms nationwide is about 20 million. With the rapid development of the food delivery industry, the harm of food delivery waste to the environment is becoming increasingly prominent.
Recently, a survey conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily in collaboration with the Questionnaire Network on 2012 respondents showed that 75.5% of the respondents have realized the harm of food delivery waste to the environment. 41.1% of respondents are willing to pay for the disposal of takeout waste. 66.9% of respondents suggested promoting biodegradable and environmentally friendly food boxes to reduce the use of plastic food boxes.
 
Among the respondents, those born in the 1990s accounted for 19.3%, those born in the 1980s accounted for 53.2%, those born in the 1970s accounted for 20.0%, those born in the 1960s accounted for 6.2%, those born in the 1950s accounted for 0.9%, and others accounted for 0.4%.
75.5% of respondents are aware of the environmental hazards of food delivery waste
 
In the survey, 43.3% of respondents frequently clicked and 53.0% occasionally clicked.
A media employee in Zhengzhou, Xiao Zhao (pseudonym), orders takeout three to four times a week on average. He usually works hard to finish it and doesn't leave any leftovers. Most takeout boxes are thrown away, and some very large plastic boxes are washed clean and used as fresh-keeping boxes. takeout bags are generally not left behind.
Xiao Lin (pseudonym), a student from a certain university in Shanghai, does not often order takeout. Sometimes, he directly throws the takeout lunch box into the trash can. If there is a classified recycling bin, it is usually thrown into a non recyclable bin.
In the survey, 34.8% of respondents would separate plastic waste from kitchen waste after eating takeout, 50.0% of respondents would occasionally do so, and 15.2% of respondents would never distinguish.
Xiaoxiao (pseudonym), an employee of a state-owned enterprise in Shenzhen, hardly orders takeout. I don't know if takeout is hygienic, and takeout waste poses a huge threat to the environment. Not ordering takeout is also protecting the environment.
Xiao Zhou did not pay special attention to the pollution of food delivery waste. In his opinion, food delivery boxes, like plastic bags, have already become a part of life.
The survey shows that 75.5% of respondents are aware of the harm of food delivery waste to the environment, 10.9% of respondents do not, and 13.6% of respondents find it difficult to describe.
 
At present, most of the food delivery waste mixed with kitchen waste, plastic bag food boxes, and packaging bag waste can only be "mixed" into urban household waste, enter the waste treatment system, and ultimately be incinerated or buried as ordinary waste. Professor Jiang Jianguo from the Solid Waste Control Research Institute of the School of Environment at Tsinghua University said that the value of directly recycling food containers is relatively low. From the perspective of the sanitation system, food delivery packaging waste has caused a significant increase in the amount of urban household waste. The capacity and end treatment capacity of a city's sanitation system, such as landfills and incinerators, are limited, and the pressure on the urban sanitation system is very high now. In the future, how to manage food delivery waste, whether to reduce it at the source, how to effectively classify and guide it, and improve the recycling ratio, in addition to charging treatment fees from restaurants and food delivery platforms, also requires corresponding policy guidance in technology and management. Improving materials will increase costs, and how to make consumers willing to spend more money on environmental protection and take on more responsibilities are all issues that need to be considered.