Who’s gonna make $7 billion in paper meals?

At present, there are more than 100 paper pulp degradable tableware manufacturers in China, with an annual production capacity of 3 billion. According to National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China figures, the country consumes about 10 billion lunch boxes a year, plus instant noodle bowls, dishes and paper cups, so the gap must be filled by December 31 this year, where did the seven billion paper cutlery come from?

According to Li Jiang, deputy director of the leading office of the National Leading Group on the substitution of one-off foamed plastic packaging for convenience food at the state administration of light industry, our country only made up its mind to control pollution at the end of 1994 and the beginning of 1995, and begin research and development of alternative products. At the end of 1997, a variety of alternative products were developed. In 1998 and 1999, there was a leap in the production technology and it was also leading the world. Take a 600-milliliter lunch box as an example. Products developed before 1997 cost about 30 cents per product, so many products are now exported to the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and there is often a supply shortage, Quanzhou, Fujian, a company’s products are also designated as this year’s Sydney Olympic Games fast food utensils, but the domestic market is far less good than the international market, this is a strange phenomenon. The domestic market does not quite accept this price, and the existing manufacturers are reluctant to do the domestic market because the foreign market is good.

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He believes that the domestic market of paper pulp lunch boxes more than 2 hair price is not acceptable this problem should be analyzed specifically. In fact, it is not that the final consumer does not accept, for example, mineral water is more than 1 yuan, bottles are 80 cents, coke is 2.50 yuan, cans are more than 1 yuan, consumers have accepted, a few dollars of instant noodles, a few or even more than 10 pieces of fast food rice, just more than 2 hair box, consumers can accept, the key is that consumers in the consumption of this product is in a passive position, but also because of the ban over a long period of time, replacement and replaced cutlery cross-overlap a long period, the middle use of enterprises often choose low prices and do not use paper cutlery. It is also because the replacement overlapping time is too long. Although many disposable tableware manufacturers have seen the long-term economic benefits of pulp-molded tableware, they can, under the current price gap and policy background, they are still on the fence. Li Jiang told reporters that the leading group on alternative work is applying for the state administration of light industry, in conjunction with other relevant departments of the country, to strengthen economic regulation and impose heavy taxes on enterprises that pollute the environment and produce substituted products, effectively support the growth and development of enterprises producing substitute products, and adjust the price difference of products in market economy by economic means. Japan, the United States and other advanced countries have done so. On May 27 last year, Premier Zhu issued a directive on the replacement of one-off foamed tableware, saying that investment in white pollution control should not be rushed. The state economic and Trade Commission should take the lead in formulating national standards for the production of disposable tableware. Mold clean home, reasonable layout. In accordance with this spirit, the state economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry 


Post time: Jul-26-2023