In recent years, the economy of the catering takeaway food industry has developed rapidly in China, but the takeaway packaging is mostly based on plastic products. The rapidly expanding takeaway market has brought considerable pressure to the environment. The environmental protection of takeaway packaging has become a current hot topic in China. The reporter visited some restaurants in Datong City eco friendly cutlery that provide some take-out management services and found that many stores have gradually begun to use green lunch boxes and paper bags instead of non-degradable plastic lunch boxes and plastic packaging bags. There is a trend of low-carbon consumption growth. Rise quietly.

"Our delivery service companies have used this kind of development of environmentally friendly lunch boxes, and all the packaging bags have been replaced with kraft paper bags." Mr. Li runs a light food salad takeaway restaurant, and he told reporters why he decided to change the packaging. The main reason is that many research customers can report that they hope they can use environmentally friendly lunch boxes to store food, and some customers even make notes when placing an order without the user providing chopsticks, forks, etc. In addition to western food and light food catering businesses, many snack bars are also constantly carrying out the revolution of packaging boxes. During the reporter's visit, it was discovered that most of the popular fried skewers shops have abandoned plastic bags and replaced them with paper bags and aluminum foil lunch boxes. Biodegradable packaging is becoming a new trend in the management of our foreign food packaging technology industry. Paper lunch boxes are one of the problems. An important part is that businesses have gradually begun to choose to use biodegradable bio-engineering plastic tableware, which is made of corn, sweet potatoes, straw, etc. Tableware made of biomass living materials can not be completely decomposed by environmental analysis microorganisms after being discarded, which can effectively reduce the pollution caused by the working environment and improve the rural ecological and economic environment.

Take-out packaging is an important part of the consumption chain. The increase in consumers' environmental awareness and the formation of low-carbon consumption behaviors have promoted the development of the take-out packaging industry in an environmentally friendly, green, and low-carbon direction. However, the reporter also found that many Chinese restaurants do not welcome environmentally friendly lunch boxes. Aunt Ma, who runs a Mala soup shop, told reporters that paper bowls and lunch boxes are not pressure-resistant and are easy to leak. For Chinese restaurants, soup is not practical because there is more food in the soup and the temperature is higher. In addition, the cost of ordinary plastic bags is less than 0.1 yuan, the cost of kraft paper bags is 0.7 yuan, and the cost of environmentally friendly lunch boxes is 1-1.5 yuan. Although the price of biodegradable materials has dropped slightly, the average price is still more expensive than plastic lunch boxes. In the face of high cost pressure, the promotion of environmentally friendly lunch boxes is facing widespread difficulties.

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