The average use time of a plastic bag is 25 minutes, but its degradation takes at least 470 years. At present, the takeout industry produces nearly 30 million orders per day. The pressure of disposable plastic tableware and packaging bags on the urban environment. Following the takeout of APP has increased the "no need for disposable tableware" option, now, further environmental protection plans for lunch boxes and packaging bags are under way. The Shanghai Changning District Market Regulatory Bureau is piloting a "paper instead of plastic" pilot project to encourage enterprises to produce and use environmentally friendly lunch boxes and paper packaging.

Organize enterprises to produce "environmental protection lunch boxes" and "paper packaging". In other words, it is to promote the use of paper instead of plastic. In a simpler sense, it is no longer to encourage the use of plastic products for take-out, but to encourage the use of paper-made lunch boxes and to encourage ordinary food without soup to be wrapped in paper.

In order to implement the policy of replacing plastic with paper, the supervisory department of Changning District of Shanghai has actively guided the enterprises, guided the enterprises to increase their enthusiasm for R&D and production of "environmental protection lunch boxes", and given certain incentives and subsidies to the takeaway enterprises that choose "paper instead of plastic".

However, "replacing plastic with paper" should not be a choice for the construction of environmental protection society. At present, the promotion of Changning District in Shanghai is still at the level of "sellers'active choice", which is far from enough. Paper instead of plastic should be the only choice.

For the citizens, they will worry about the safety of replacing plastic with paper. In fact, the safety factor of paper is much higher than that of plastic products. Paper lunch boxes are made of renewable biomass such as corn and straw. They are not only non-toxic but also environmentally friendly. The relevant departments should vigorously publicize them. Takeaway companies are concerned about price, but price is not the reason for choosing contaminated packaging. Reducing the pressure of disposable plastic tableware and packaging bags on the urban environment has always been an important environmental protection issue. At this time, "paper instead of plastic" should not be the choice of delivery, but should be mandatory.