News Summary Infusion bottles, tubes, needles and hospitals produce a lot of medical waste every day. As a special kind of garbage with germs, medical waste will pollute the environment and spread germs if it is not handled properly. The Regulations on Medical Waste Disposal issued by the Ministry of Health clearly stipulates that medical waste must be burned at high temperature.
However, the reporter's investigation found that although many hospitals have incinerators, they are actually just to hide people's eyes and ears and cope with inspections. Medical waste was not burned at all.
These medical wastes are secretly collected by hospital cleaners and then sold to garbage collection stations.
These particles are sent to the plastic products factory. The products produced here are nothing more than plastic products such as disposable cups and dinner plates that we usually use.
Harm of disposable tableware to people Harm of disposable lunch box Disposable lunch box is foamed plastic tableware. If the food is more than 65 degrees, it will precipitate its own toxins and invade the food, just like plastic bags can't meet high temperature, and if the process is not well controlled during processing, the toxicity will be even greater. Eating with such a lunch box is equivalent to taking poison for a long time. Although the toxicity is weak, it will still cause damage to the liver and kidneys.
Harm of disposable chopsticks Maybe everyone will say that disposable chopsticks are not plastic, right? What harm can they do? In fact, many of these chopsticks are made in small workshops. Throwing them only once is not only a great waste of resources, but also because they don't need much high quality, mass production and rough workmanship. In order to reduce costs, some workshops also use inferior wood to make chopsticks look black, and bleach them with chemicals, which is extremely harmful.
Harm of disposable paper cups Many people don't have the habit of bringing their own cups. When eating out, they often drink water from disposable cups. This kind of cup looks quite dry, but it also has hidden dangers. The inner wall of disposable cups is usually coated with a thin layer of wax to prevent water from penetrating. However, if the water is too hot, the wax will dissolve in the water. At present, some unscrupulous merchants use cheap industrial paraffin as coating, which will produce harmful substances after melting.
How to identify toxic disposable tableware
How can plastic be a fake and shoddy disposable plastic lunch box? Because it is cheap and can be bought for a few cents, it is welcomed by some small restaurants. For example, in the production of inferior lunch boxes, a large number of industrial-grade calcium carbonate, talcum powder, paraffin and other toxic and harmful substances are generally added, which poses a direct threat to the health of users.
Fake environmentally-friendly plastic lunch boxes are soft to the touch, and will break when you tear them gently. When they smell pungent and choking, they are easily leaked when they are deformed by heat. The fake lunch box has poor strength, dark color and serious oil leakage and water seepage; There is no factory name, trademark and production date on the packaging box and lunch box; Counterfeit lunch boxes are heavier than qualified ones and easy to sink after being chopped with water (the specific gravity of qualified products is less than 1 and will not sink); The price is cheap, generally below 0. 10 yuan, while the price of truly environmentally friendly lunch boxes is above 0.3 yuan.
Convenient chopsticks are too white, so you need to be vigilant. Many people think it is more hygienic and safer to use disposable chopsticks when eating out. However, in order to reduce costs, some small workshops use inferior wood. Some lawless elements will fumigate and bleach chopsticks with sulfur in order to "whiten" them. When eating with these chopsticks, the residual sulfur dioxide will enter the body.
Colorful straws may be unsafe when drinking drinks. Many straws are made of waste plastic, which is harmful to the liver and kidneys.
Wonderful identification of disposable paper cups The advantages and disadvantages of disposable paper cups can be identified by "seeing, smelling and touching".
Look: besides the name, address and production date of the manufacturer on the package, we should also look at the light. If there is blue light or impurities, it is best not to buy it;
Smell: whether there is pungent smell;
Handfeel: It feels particularly soft, which may be inferior products.