In 2019, Shenzhen was selected as the pilot of the national "waste free city" construction. As an important part of the "waste free city" construction, plastic pollution control, Shenzhen adheres to the working ideas of systematic treatment, collaborative treatment, source reduction and green substitution, and determines the "road map", "timetable" and "mission statement" one by one. Actively promote alternative products, standardize the recycling of plastic waste, gradually establish a pollution control system covering the whole life cycle of plastic, and achieve preliminary results.

Relevant departments check the use of plastic products and integrated packaging of commodity logistics in e-commerce outlets.

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Adhere to high-level planning, pay close attention to top-level design and supervision and assessment

In May 2019, Shenzhen was selected as the pilot of the national "waste free city" construction. In December, the "pilot implementation plan for the construction of a" waste free city "in Shenzhen was printed and distributed, proposing four stage work objectives, formulating 58 indicators and 100 work tasks, and systematically constructing plastic pollution control tasks of plastic source reduction, promotion and application of degradable products, waste recycling and zero landfill. According to the requirements of" accounting, project, digitization and accountability ", it was decomposed and implemented to all units directly under the municipal government and district governments, And included in the ecological civilization assessment of Party and government leading cadres of all responsible units.

Shenzhen has set up an ecological and Environmental Protection Committee and a leading group for the pilot construction of "waste free city". The main leaders of the city promote it at a high level. The Secretary of the municipal Party committee and the mayor personally deploy the pilot construction work, regularly listen to reports, and personally coordinate and solve existing problems.

The Municipal People's Congress has set up a Political Council of deputies to strengthen work supervision. The municipal CPPCC has set up a committee meeting hall to widely communicate information and ideas. Relevant municipal leaders hold regular working meetings to study and solve the reform and construction issues in their respective fields.

In addition, Shenzhen has set up a leading group office for the pilot construction of "waste free city", which is specifically responsible for the daily work of the pilot construction. Promote the construction of "waste free cities" and the treatment of plastic pollution at a high level.

In November 2020, the "implementation plan of Shenzhen on further strengthening plastic pollution control" (hereinafter referred to as the "implementation plan") was prepared and issued, and a total of 59 key tasks in five parts were formulated, which were organized and implemented by 20 units and 11 district governments in the city.

On the basis of the requirements of the national and Guangdong Provincial documents, and in accordance with the construction requirements of the leading demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Great Bay area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, further clarify the objectives and refine the measures, systematically and comprehensively strengthen the whole chain control of plastic pollution, put forward the three-stage objectives of 2020, 2022 and 2025, and adopt the method of "banning and limiting one batch, replacing one batch of recycling, and standardizing one batch", and orderly prohibit and Restrict the production, sale and use of some plastic products, promote recyclable, recyclable and degradable alternative products, standardize enterprise production, improve the recycling system, support supervision, scientific and technological research and development assistance, and other ways to solve the problems of high cost of recycled plastics, difficult profitability of recycling enterprises and difficult plastic recycling.

In September, 2021, Shenzhen prepared and issued the "schedule of key tasks for plastic pollution control in Shenzhen". According to the 59 key tasks of the implementation plan, it further refined the division of tasks, clarified the time nodes for the completion of tasks, set a total of 80 specific tasks in the six sectors of plastic prohibition, promotion and substitution, recycling, safe disposal, safeguard measures and public participation, and compacted the functions of various departments, Ensure the smooth progress of various tasks of plastic pollution control.

The effect of plastic pollution control was initially shown, and 80 work tasks were advanced in an orderly manner

According to the schedule of key tasks for plastic pollution control in Shenzhen, the city has set up a total of 80 specific tasks in six major sectors of plastic pollution control, namely, banning and limiting plastics, promoting substitution, recycling, safe disposal, safeguard measures and public participation.

Shenzhen needs to complete 6 tasks in 2020 and continue to promote 74 tasks by 2025. In 2020, the number of tasks to be completed accounts for 7.5% of the total number of 80 tasks, and the completion degree is 100%; In 2021, we will continue to promote 74 tasks.

Positive progress has been made in source reduction. In Shenzhen, the production of disposable foamed plastic tableware, disposable plastic cotton swabs and other products has basically stopped, and there is no production of obsolete plastic products in the city at present.

At present, the packaging proportion of 45mm "slimming tape" of express delivery in the city has increased from 95.3% in 2020 to 98.4%, the secondary packaging rate of e-commerce Express has increased from 90.9% in 2020 to 93.7%, and the number of postal express outlets equipped with standard packaging waste recycling devices has increased from 1197 in 2020 to 1373. Large supermarkets have stopped using disposable plastic shopping bags. The consumption of degradable shopping bags of Wal Mart, China Resources Vanguard, Carrefour and other large supermarkets has decreased by about 60% year-on-year compared with that of disposable plastic shopping bags.

The promotion and application of alternative products has achieved preliminary results. Bao'an District cultivates a green express delivery point - Shunfeng Packaging Laboratory of shunqihe (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. the "Feng box" recyclable and foldable packaging boxes launched by this project have been put into use throughout the country for 540000 times, with an average of 17 cycles, a maximum of about 80000 times a day, and a cumulative use of 8.78 million times. The annual equivalent carbon emission reduction is 33000 tons. The coverage area of biodegradable agricultural film in the city is 100 mu, and the use amount is 31.3 tons.

The standard recycling and disposal level of waste plastics has been greatly improved. All districts actively promoted the "integration of the two networks", and the amount of recyclables recovered increased from 1021 tons / day in 2020 to 2156 tons / day, an increase of 111%; The city has a total of 12 temporary storage sites for glassy gold plastic paper and 1047 renewable resource recycling sites, which provides a strong guarantee for front-end classification.

In 2021, a total of 180 agricultural waste recycling points will be built in the city, 100 new agricultural waste recycling points will be added in 2021, and 5 centralized temporary storage warehouses for agricultural waste will be built. Low value and worthless waste plastics have been included in other garbage and have been incinerated in full.

We continued to carry out regular law enforcement. In 2021, 210000 garbage classification and delivery sites were inspected, 16000 garbage classification and collection vehicles were inspected, 16700 cases were filed, and the total fine was 2.7 million yuan. Start the normal cleaning of floating garbage in public waters, and salvage and clean up a total of about 400 cubic meters of floating garbage.

The safeguard measures for plastic pollution control have been strengthened. Shenzhen has prepared and issued 18 policy documents and guidelines related to plastic pollution control, including 8 implementation plans, 8 work notices and 2 guidelines.

Support the production enterprises and resource utilization enterprises of plastic substitutes to apply for high-tech enterprises, and a total of 8 new identified high-tech enterprises in plastic substitutes and resource utilization related fields.

It took the lead in promoting the green product certification of express packaging in the country, and supported the municipal testing institute to become one of the first batch of green product certification institutions in the country. Seven enterprises in the city have obtained the green product certification of express packaging.

Increase financial support for key technology research and development, and support 7 research and development projects and plans in the field of degradable plastics, with a funding amount of about 3.04 million yuan.

Deepen the treatment of plastic pollution and further strengthen supervision, law enforcement and inspection

According to the relevant person in charge of the municipal ecological environment bureau, next, we will further strengthen the control of plastic pollution, and the main measures are as follows:

First, we will deepen the work of plastic pollution control. The Municipal Bureau of ecological environment and the development and Reform Commission will actively urge all units to conscientiously implement and promote the completion of all tasks on time and with good quality in accordance with the task division in the schedule of key tasks for plastic pollution control in Shenzhen. Do a good job in the full cycle supervision and management of the production, use, recycling and safe disposal of plastic products. Further strengthen law enforcement and inspection, and severely crack down on illegal acts of plastic pollution.

The second is to strengthen research and development and improve the quality of alternative products. Promote the market-oriented production and use of alternative products, actively adopt new green environmental protection functional materials, implement the construction of green product certification and identification system, strengthen the research and development of recyclable, recyclable and degradable alternative materials and products, and provide policy and financial support.

Third, take the construction of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Great Bay Area as an opportunity to promote the resource utilization of waste plastics in the whole province and open up the industrial chain of waste plastics utilization and processing enterprises in the whole province.

Fourth, strengthen publicity and education, take the construction of "waste free city" as an opportunity, and "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" as the goal. Create a "near zero carbon" demonstration project for the resource utilization of waste plastics. Encourage citizens to consciously reduce the use of plastic products and strive to be a demonstration citizen of frugal life. (Dou Yanwen)