Hainan requires e-commerce platform to strengthen the "plastic ban" to block illegal plastic products into the island

The relevant departments of Hainan Province recently issued "on the promotion of Hainan Province, the e-commerce platform of a number of measures to ban plastic" (referred to as "measures"). Hainan Province, the Department of Ecology and Environment and the Department of Commerce jointly held a press conference on the 30th, said Hainan to strengthen the implementation of e-commerce platforms to supervise the implementation of the plastic ban, requiring e-commerce platforms to block the "Hainan Province prohibit the production, sale and use of disposable non-biodegradable plastic products directory" within the input of disposable non-biodegradable plastic products.

"Plastic ban" is a landmark project in Hainan Province to build an ecological civilization pilot area, which was implemented on December 1 last year, and two batches of banned the production and sale of single-use non-biodegradable plastic products directory have been issued.

Hainan ecological environment department plastic ban office deputy director Gong Lei introduction, the province from April this year to carry out the ban on plastic work outstanding problems rectification, the overall promotion of port logistics input, postal courier input and e-commerce platform input three major channels of plastic ban. Hainan has put forward the e-commerce platform to implement the basic requirements of the ban on plastic, at present the e-commerce platform self-operated business has basically implemented the requirements of the ban on plastic.

"Measures" clearly require the strengthening of source control, blocking the directory of one-time non-degradable plastic products input. For example, the third-party e-commerce platform is required to set a reminder to remind merchants that "Hainan prohibits the sale of plastic products within the list of prohibited plastic products", and to develop relevant rules to limit the sales of merchants within the platform; secondly, the takeaway and community group-buying platforms are required to develop rules for prohibiting the use of single-use plastic products within the list of prohibited plastic products in the delivery process; thirdly, the postal sector Promote the implementation of domestic express delivery enterprises in Hainan Province, the provisions of the ban on plastic, to stop the collection of banned plastic list of plastic products mailed to Hainan.

"The platform plastic ban is difficult to open to third-party e-commerce platform. The sale of plastic products on the banned list to Hainan Province, basically registered in the province outside the domestic mainstream open e-commerce platform." Hainan Provincial Department of Commerce second inspector Lin Haiyun frankly, e-commerce platform for Hainan alone to develop "plastic" internal rules, involving more departments, to spend a lot of human and material resources. However, he also said, the major e-commerce platforms have taken some measures to cooperate with the Hainan banned the directory of disposable plastic products, some in the internal development of the "plastic" rules to promote the "plastic" work.

In order to improve the "ban on plastic" enforcement, Hainan formed a joint disciplinary mechanism, will also be regular cases of violations will be published in the news media. At the same time, will also "ban plastic" outstanding performance of the e-commerce platform enterprises to reward. (End)