The source reduction of marine waste will ban four disposable plastic products in 2030, including shopping bags, disposable tableware, take-out beverage cups and straws.

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Marine debris is seriously polluted, "the United Nations World Ocean Conference pointed out that almost a ton of garbage is dumped into the ocean every minute, and if humans do not take action, there will be more plastic bags in the ocean than fish in 2050." Director of Environmental Protection Li Yingyuan said that it will be controlled from the source so that garbage does not enter rivers, coastal waters, and oceans. Therefore, four items of disposable plastic products, including shopping bags, disposable dishes, disposable drink cups and plastic straws, will be completely banned in 2030, and from next year, chain catering operators will first be urged not to provide disposable plastic straws for domestic drinks.

The Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups set up a marine waste management platform in July last year, and today (13) jointly released the "Action Plan for Marine waste Management in Taiwan", drawing up four major directions: source reduction, prevention and removal, research and investigation, and expanding cooperation and participation. It is expected to go from plastic restriction and plastic reduction all the way to the unplastic ocean.

Director of Environmental Protection Li Yingyuan (Photography / Liu Yixin)

Next year, the chain will first recommend that domestic drinks are not allowed to provide plastic straws.

"the photo of the straw passing through the turtle's nose is so sensational that everyone feels reluctant to give up, but they don't want to change it to make it too convenient for themselves," Li Yingyuan stressed. Next year, it will start with plastic straws. Drinks used by chain operators are not allowed to use plastic straws once. They can switch to steel, edible materials, or even drink directly without straws. "banning plastic straws inside will not cause inconvenience to the public but to businesses. But businesses can be overcome, so they lock in for internal use first. "

In addition, in terms of beach clearance, Ye Junhong said that he will identify key areas to strengthen the coast, establish a single window that can clean up the coast for adoption and handle beach clearance activities, so that the society can invest more human resources into the key coast. at the same time, the coastline cleaning and maintenance situation, key coastal information to be cleaned up will be regularly announced, and it is hoped that the number of environmental protection fleets will be increased from 1200 to 5000 in 2022, so as to encourage fishermen to join. Take the rubbish back to shore for disposal.

In addition to marine waste management, garbage transported by rivers is also one of the sources of marine garbage. Ye Junhong explains that in the future, a network platform for garbage cleaning, notification, and recording of rivers, platoons, irrigation and water conservancy ditches, such as the central government and various counties and municipal governments, will also be built.

Chen Lixin said that the marine waste management platform will continue to operate to implement the policy program, and will conduct a rolling review every two years, with appropriate additions and amendments according to the implementation status, survey results and responses from all walks of life. "Marine waste involves a wide range of areas and is not limited to the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Department. We look forward to including inter-departmental dialogue in the future, including fisheries, marine patrol, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Affairs." We hope to be able to expand participation. Horizontal integration calls on friends from all walks of life to respond to this policy program, play the responsibility of being citizens of the earth, and one day return to the earth a clean and unmolded earth to save life in the ocean.

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