Sustainable Brand Japan | Sustainable Brands JAPAN's site How about disposable spoons, folks, and retail industries from April from April?
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The so -called "Plastic New Law" (law on promoting resource recycling related to plastic) to reduce plastic garbage and strengthen recycling will be enforced in April this year.One of these is the handling of disposable spoons and forks such as forks and forks offered free of charge at retail stores and restaurants.Regarding these "one -way plastic", the government has stated that in the "plastic resource recycling strategy", the goal of suppressing 25%of the discharge by 2030 by 2030, but will the new law be a tailwind to achieve this goal?--.....Report the movement of each company at this time.(Tomoko Hirosue) The new method promotes “3R (Ride's Reuse Recycling)+Renewable” in general life cycle from the design of a product using plastic to the waste disposal, and the transition to the circular valueIs a law that accelerates.Regarding disposable plastic provided free of charge according to the sale of products and services, in addition to spoons and forks, table knives, madlers, beverage straws, hairbrushes, curs, kids, shower caps, toothbrushes, clothing hangers, and clothing.The 12 items of the cover are determined as "specific plastic products".On top of that, we will confirm the intention of whether or not consumers receive a 5 -ton -year -old business operator, pay for the point, and reuse points to those who do not receive it.It is required to call, or to reduce weight and switch to alternative materials.Paid is just one of the options.
Three major convenience stores, are you the main focus on weight reduction or wooden?
Under such circumstances, it has not been heard from major supermarkets and convenience stores, such as paying cutlery like a shopping bag from April.According to the policies of three major convenience stores, it is likely to be the main focus on lighter weight and switching to alternative materials.From June to July last year, Seven -Eleven made an effort to give customers who declined cutlery at six stores in Tokyo as part of the Ministry of the Environment's demonstration experiment.Although the results of the experiment have not been disclosed, according to the spokeswoman, "at this time, such points reduction, and the expansion of the provision of cutlery containing 30%biomass that are already implemented at stores in Okinawa Prefecture is".We are considering responding from all perspectives. "FamilyMart, on the other hand, has a policy of lighter, and has already introduced a spoon with a hole in a hole, reducing the amount of plastic usage by about 12%compared to conventional products.The folk will be reduced by about 8 % with the same design with the same design of about 8 % of the conventional products, from January 25 at about 8700 stores in the Kanto, Tokai and Koshin regions, and will expand to all stores this summer.This is expected to reduce the amount of plastic use of spoons and forks by about 87 tons a year.
Lawson is still continuing a demonstration experiment to provide wooden spoons that started at some of the natural Lawson stores in Tokyo last August.At this time, we have not announced a significant switching due to the new law, but commented that "I would like to challenge various initiatives, including wooden cutlery during the demonstration experiment and achieve plastic reduction goals."rice field.Although it is not limited to three companies, it is not limited to each company, regardless of the enforcement of the new law, plastic reduction is an important theme in environmental visions, and it is trying to reduce it based on its own KPI.The trend is the same for major supermarkets.
"There is no particular movement according to the new law." Major supermarkets, plastic reductions quietly
In the "plastic usage policy" formulated in September 2020, Aeon, "Review the wasted use of resources and disposable types in business activities in business activities and the use of disposable type in business activities., Aiming for disposable plastic zero "" Replaced the necessary plastic from fossil origin to environmental and society -conscious materials "," Resource recycling models that collect, reuse, and regenerate used plastic based on stores are built, and customers"Working on sustainable resource recycling with" with "" ".According to a spokeswoman, "there is no particular movement according to the new law."We are focusing on replacement of materials.For the goal of the entire group, which is listed in the above policy, "by 2030, reducing disposable plastic by half compared to FY2018", it has not been able to jump a pair, but it has been quietly preparing the environment.On the other hand, Life Corporation, which has 285 supermarket life in Kanto and Kinki, has been made of plastic straws into paper and spoons (two types of forks that also have a fork) to wooden.Switch.According to the spokeswoman, all of the needs of customers take it home, the spoon uses the "FSC certification material" and the straw uses "the same material as those that can be certified."The start of switching overlaps with the start of the new law, but it is a part of its own plastic reduction policies, which leads to about 17 million plastic spoon straws a year.
Some companies decide to pay for them, "I'm still confused by the customer's burden."
Regarding the paid, "I am confused considering the burden of customers" (life), such as a new law, a major supermarket and convenience store that indicate that it will be paid for the new law is less than three months until the law is enforced.No (some companies have already paid disposable spoons at a price of 2 yen per bottle, such as chatreese, which are manufactured and sold.)Just because the new law has started, it seems that the "specific plastic product used product", such as one -way plastic such as spoons and forks, will not start all at once, just like paying the shopping bag.。
To raise awareness of awareness of awareness
On the other hand, on January 14, when the government ordinance, which set the specific content of the new law, was decided, the Ministry of the Environment opened a special website that called "Plastic and reduced and recycled", and consumed businesses and consumption on the new law.Enlighten the awareness of people.Among them, the outline of the "plastic resource recycling strategy" formulated in May 2019 is described, and regarding one -way plastic, it emphasizes that "in accumulated by 2030" is emphasized as an "ambitious milestone".ing.Is the new law a tailwind to achieve this milestone, leading to an essential solution to Japan's plastic reduction?
NGOs and others aiming for a decrease plastic society "new law is insufficient" Specific plastic is a charged request
On the same day when the Cabinet decision was made, members of the WWF Japan and other members of the "NGO Networks to Realize Plastic Society" and 27 organizations that agreed were inadequate, so that the entire plastic pollution problem was solved comprehensively.He published a joint proposal to the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, calling for an immediate establishment of the "Basic Law" as a basic philosophy.Among them, the problem with the new law is that paid is "only one of the number of options" under the new law.The Japan Chain Store Association's survey, which has been a retention rate of the shopping bag for many years when it was recommended by the means such as the encouragement of points redemption, but the Japanese Chain Store Association's survey case, which jumped more than 15%due to charging.Is clear that is an effective means, "he said," Specified plastic products should be duty to pay or prohibit providing specific plastic products. "In France, vegetables and fruits plastic packaging have been prohibited from January this year, and advanced rules are underway, with a fine of 15,000 euros (approximately 1.93 million yen) in case of violation.As an example, the new method of the new law, including the 12 items of specific plastic products, the plastic container packaging in the container and packaging recycling method, such as the Styrofoam Food Tray and the excess plastic packaging used in vegetables and fruits, to the cost of them.He pointed out that "the reduction effect will be partially stuck" if it is not prohibited to provide.Voices such as "Do you want to have a spoon or fork?" Even from convenience stores and supermarkets, it may not lead to changes in life or impact that consumers may not lead to consumers.。Will more people decline spoons and forks even if they are not charged?The consciousness of each person is being questioned.