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China’s recent degradable tableware market in 2022

Mar 26, 2025

Starting last month, McDonald's will not offer free disposable cutlery.

From the perspective of environmental protection, they believe that the use of plastic should be reduced and support it; from the perspective of cost, people find that the price of food is raised in disguise after the tableware is charged, questioning the price.

Starbucks has also launched a similar approach. Domestic companies such as Nai Xue and Heytea are gradually reducing the use of plastics. Among them, Western Tea has upgraded cup sleeves, hot drink cups, hot food paper bags and packaging bags to environmentally friendly and degradable materials. Paper straws have been implemented in stores nationwide.

In the regulation, the retail industry is not allowed to provide plastic bags for free.

At the same time, with the rapid development of the food delivery business, the delivery platform has also introduced plasticization measures, including the implementation of "tableware-free" delivery options.

In recent years, national and local governments have successively issued relevant laws and policies to curb the trend of "plastic prevalence": Shanghai, Beijing and other places prohibit foreign sellers from actively providing consumers with disposable tableware; it is expected that by the end of 2022, all counties and cities will built.

By changing the lid design and replacing it with paper straws, it is easy to achieve, while the reduction of lunch boxes and packaging will face certain difficulties.

Relevant plastic reduction measures will cover all restaurants in mainland China in 2020, and it is expected to reduce the use of plastic by about 400 tons per year.

According to media reports, as of December 31, 2019, Starbucks has completed the conversion of disposable straws in all stores in mainland China, and can achieve its commitment to "stop the use of plastic straws globally by 2020" ahead of schedule.

It includes various measures launched on external sales platforms, such as "no cutlery option required" and a packaging upgrade pilot project "cast with paper".

"Only replacing plastic straws, large catering companies need to increase the cost of 10 million yuan; if the existing non-degradable disposable plastic tableware is completely replaced as required, the large catering companies will increase by 100 million yuan.

It is understood that all Starbucks stores in Shenzhen have also adopted the practice of charging 0.5 yuan for disposable tableware, providing stainless steel tableware for customers who enjoy food in the store, and reminding the staff to "reduce the use of disposable tableware".

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Identification of degradable tableware

Experts suggest that the degradable tableware can be distinguished by several methods of "one look, two smell, three tear":

At first glance, we must first see whether there is a QS logo and number on the lunch box; secondly, we must also see whether the surface of the lunch box is smooth and whether there are impurities or black spots. Generally speaking, transparent plastic lunch boxes are made of pure polypropylene (PP), which has a relatively high safety factor; brightly colored lunch boxes may use waste plastic, so the darker the color, the more unsafe.

The second touch is to feel the strength of the lunch box. The lunch box produced with recycled waste or a large amount of industrial-grade calcium carbonate and talcum powder is generally poor in strength, and it will break if you tear it lightly.

The third smell is to smell the peculiar smell of the lunch box, and the qualified lunch box cannot smell the smell.

The characteristics of the "black lunch box" can be summed up as a six-sentence jingle: the hand is soft and soft, it will break if you tear it lightly, it will cause a pungent smell, it will easily leak when heated, it will have paraffin marks when it is folded, and it will sink when it is torn into water. . As long as you remember the jingle above, you can easily distinguish whether the disposable lunch box is qualified.
Appearance of degradable tableware finished product

1. Normal color, no peculiar smell;

2. The surface is flat and clean, with uniform texture, no scratches, no wrinkles, peeling, cracks and perforations;

3. No oil, dust, mildew and other foreign matter on the surface;

4. The edges are smooth and regular. The cover with cover is convenient and flat, and the rebound cover should be unfastened.
Technical requirements for degradable tableware

It is necessary to use non-toxic, harmless, clean and non-polluting raw materials that comply with national food hygiene and environmental protection regulations and standards to make disposable degradable tableware. The following raw materials, additives, coatings and chemical agents are not allowed to make and process disposable degradable tableware:

1. Natural materials and their rough processed products that have not been decontaminated;

2. Invalidity, deterioration, mildew or contamination;

3. The content of harmful substances does not meet the hygienic standards;

4. Recycling of recycled materials;

5. Fluorescent brightener.

Green environmental protection packaging should meet three points, one is easy to recycle, the other is easy to dispose, and the third is easy to absorb, that is, it is easy to be integrated into the natural environment, but even degradable tableware cannot be achieved in a short time. Many degradation products claim that the degradation time is three to six months, but in fact, this is determined under a standard laboratory environment. In a natural environment, degradation is affected by various factors such as temperature and humidity. For example, if you put a lunch box in Where there is no water, it is difficult to degrade.” Under natural conditions, it takes at least one year for degradation products to degrade.
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