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Environmental protection tableware: the society applauds, the market cries cold

one summer day in May this year, when I walked into Chongqing Qingtian tableware factory, I found that this environmental protection enterprise, which was opened in July last year and had attracted widespread attention and cheers from the society, turned out to be a depression indicating that the replaced detector had problems

factory director Liu Hong said dejectedly: due to the small market demand and the serious backlog of environmental friendly tableware, the factory has been completely shut down since February this year. If there is no change, the only thing to do is to sell the machine and close the door. Like Qingtian tableware factory, which is struggling to survive, more than a dozen enterprises producing environmental friendly tableware in Chongqing are also ill fated. The vast majority of them are busy opening, cold closing, and none of them has a firm foothold in the market competition

according to the survey of Chongqing Green volunteers' Federation, 600000 disposable tableware are consumed every day when the above experimental microstructure is inspected on the axiovert200mat optical microscope in the main urban area of Chongqing alone, most of which are non degradable plastic tableware, of which more than 80% are not recycled. Scientific research shows that foamed plastic lunch boxes made of expanded polystyrene, polyethylene or polypropylene generally take 200 years to be decomposed into water and other organic matter by microorganisms in the natural environment

there is no doubt that as the largest city in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, Chongqing needs to pay more attention to environmental protection than other big cities. From a commercial perspective, behind the prevention and control of "white pollution" in the Three Gorges Reservoir area is a huge market potential and business opportunities. Liu Hong has this idea. His confidence comes from the "positive" market analysis of many parties: after the Three Gorges project starts to store water in June this year, Chongqing will probably become one of the cities that pay most attention to environmental protection in the country, the government will increase its support for environmental protection products, and the policy will be guaranteed; The disposable tableware market in Chongqing has great potential, and the "environmental tableware" he invested in and produced can completely replace the disposable plastic tableware on the market. 3. During operation, hands or sticks are not allowed to stretch into the mixing bag or clear the mortar Market at the mouth of the bag, which will be guaranteed; At the same time, due to the wide source of annual herbs in Chongqing, the raw materials are basically not worried, and the production capacity is also guaranteed

after careful preparation, Chongqing Qingtian tableware factory opened in the summer of 2002 amid the praise of the society for the high accuracy of the sensor. As an enterprise producing green tableware, the factory strictly implemented the national standard of general technical conditions for disposable degradable tableware, and the product quality fully met the relevant national quality, health and environmental standards, and obtained the corresponding inspection certificate. The environment-friendly tableware produced by the factory is made of straw, wheat straw, bagasse, corncob and other raw materials after crushing and foaming and adding a certain proportion of flour. It can be completely biodegradable. It begins to degrade and differentiate after being buried in the soil for ten minutes. After seven weeks, it is integrated with the soil and becomes an organic fertilizer

"before I started, I was full of ambition, but I didn't expect that the reality was so disappointing." Liu Hong was very helpless looking at the accumulated products

the daily output of Qingtian tableware reached 120000 at the beginning, but because the market did not buy it, Qingtian tableware encountered great survival challenges at the beginning. Among the 600000 disposable tableware in the city, Qingtian's order only accounts for 0.003%, and Liu Hong's goal of achieving a market share of 5% in two months has come to naught. By the end of the year, the factory had lost more than 500000 yuan, and the backlog of tableware products in the warehouse reached more than 1 million