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Hazards of non-environmentally friendly bags

Original text: Environmental sanitation experts pointed out that although non-environmentally friendly bags bring a lot of convenience to citizens, they also pollute the environment. Some non-environmentally friendly bags cannot be used to pack food, which will have an inestimable harm to human health. Medical experts pointed out that food, especially cooked food, is often easy to deteriorate after being packaged in non-environmentally friendly bags. After eating such deteriorated food, people are prone to vomiting, diarrhea and other food poisoning symptoms. In addition, plastic itself will release harmful gases. Due to long-term accumulation in sealed bags, the concentration increases with the increase of sealing time, causing the food in the bag to be polluted to varying degrees, which is particularly harmful to the health and development of children.
The dark-colored non-environmentally friendly bags often used on stalls are extremely harmful. It is made of recycled waste plastic products and is extremely harmful to the human body. It cannot be used to hold food that is eaten directly. In addition, polyvinyl chloride plastic products cannot be used to store alcoholic and oily foods, otherwise the lead in the bag will dissolve into the food. At the same time, this non-environmentally friendly bag cannot be used to hold food at a temperature above 50°C.

Environmental experts pointed out that some non-environmentally friendly bags currently used on the market are not allowed to hold food. There are three types of non-environmentally friendly bags: one that cannot touch the skin or hold food, and can only be used to hold building materials; one that is used to hold clothing; and another that can barely be used to hold food. Stabilizers are added to some plastic products, and these added stabilizers are mainly lead stearate, which can cause cumulative lead poisoning.

Insiders pointed out that the vast majority of non-environmentally friendly bags currently sold and used on the market are produced by small enterprises or family workshops in various places, and a considerable number are recycled plastic products, which are recycled and processed from waste plastics collected from garbage stations, industrial waste, and plastic waste discarded by medical institutions. They are privately processed into food bags and put on the market without disinfection.
These recycled plastics contain seriously excessive pathogens and carcinogens. Using such plastic products to package cooked food for direct consumption will have extremely serious consequences for consumers' health. Such non-environmentally friendly bags contain a large number of pathogens that cannot be seen by the naked eye. Long-term use of such disposable plastic food bags can easily lead to chronic food poisoning.

In this regard, citizens can use the following methods to test toxic and non-toxic non-environmentally friendly bags:

Sensory detection method: non-toxic non-environmentally friendly bags are milky white, translucent, or colorless and transparent, flexible, smooth to the touch, and waxy on the surface; toxic non-environmentally friendly bags are turbid or light yellow in color and sticky to the touch.

Water detection method: Place the non-environmentally friendly bag in water and press it into the bottom of the water. The non-toxic non-environmentally friendly bag has a small specific gravity and can float to the surface of the water. The toxic non-environmentally friendly bag has a large specific gravity and sinks.

Shaking detection method: Grab one end of the non-environmentally friendly bag with your hand and shake it hard. Those that make a crisp sound are non-toxic; those that make a dull sound are toxic.
Fire detection method: non-toxic polyethylene non-environmental bags are flammable, with a blue flame and yellow top. When burning, they drip like candle tears, have a paraffin smell, and little smoke; toxic polyvinyl chloride non-environmental bags are not flammable, go out immediately after leaving the fire, have a yellow flame, a green bottom, can be drawn when softened, and have a pungent smell of hydrochloric acid.

With the development of the economy, shopping in supermarkets has become an indispensable part of modern life, and people have long been accustomed to the non-environmental bags provided free of charge by supermarkets. It is worth noting that the consumption of non-environmental bags in my country is increasing year by year, and plastic packaging has accounted for one-third of the total packaging materials, among which the annual output of plastic packaging materials in Shanghai is as high as 150,000 tons. The harm of these colorful, large and small non-environmental bags to the environment is undoubtedly amazing.

The pollution caused by non-environmental bags to the environment mainly includes "visual pollution" and "potential harm". Among them, "visual pollution" refers to the damage to the city appearance and landscape, which is the most prominent problem of "white pollution". "Potential harm" refers to the long-term environmental problems caused by waste plastic products after entering the natural environment due to their difficulty in degradation. Plastic has a stable structure and is not easily destroyed by natural microorganisms. This means that if waste plastics are not recycled, they will become pollutants in the environment and will continue to accumulate. It will not only affect the development of industrial and agricultural production and threaten the living environment of animals, but also affect the sustainable use of land and the comprehensive utilization of other organic waste due to improper treatment.
In fact, many citizens have realized the harm of non-environmentally friendly bags. In order to reduce pollution, they will reuse non-environmentally friendly bags, such as using them to hold garbage or go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. However, the efforts of ordinary citizens alone are far from enough. Non-environmentally friendly bags at home are always accumulating more and more, and the speed of accumulation far exceeds the speed of consumption. Many non-environmentally friendly bags are still discarded as waste. In order to reduce the harm of non-environmentally friendly bags and give the city a clean environment, we can only start from the source and reduce the distribution of non-environmentally friendly bags......