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Author: Lao Minyi
2020-05-19 00:00
Last update date: 2020-05-19 00:15The problem of "plastic overcoating" of supermarket products is serious. Huantu Greenpeace has released the "Hong Kong Chain Supermarket Plastics Rating Report", which is a score report for supermarkets under the seven major groups in Hong Kong.
Dairy Group, which includes Wellcome and Market Place by Jasons, has the most branches, with more than 320 stores in Hong Kong, but only 15.5 points out of 100 points. The report states that it focuses on reducing the weight of disposable plastic packaging of some products. Green He peacefully criticized its cure of the symptoms and the "wandering path", and did not implement specific innovation and plasticity policies. The transparency of plasticity information is low, prompting the milk company group, one of the leading supermarket groups, to catch up and lead the industry to remove unnecessary packaging.
Buy ingredients in the supermarket to cook a dish, and produce dozens of disposable plastic garbage at any time. (Provided by Greenpeace)
The targets of this report are Watsons Group (including Parknson, Fusion, Taste, International, Great, etc.), Dairy Group (including Wellcome and Market Place by Jasons, etc.), Yitian, Aeon, City 'super, Marks & Spencer And China Resources Vanguard. The scoring criteria include plastics reduction policies, plastic reduction measures, initiatives and innovations, and information transparency. The questionnaire will be sent to the supermarket chain brand management in August last year according to the public information of the supermarket (including the official website, annual report and media reports), and Greenpeace in August last year. Comprehensive review of performance and scoring.
Dairy Company Group focuses only on reducing plastic weight
The survey found that the total number of branches in Hong Kong ’s milk company group was only 15.5 points, although guidelines for the use of packaging by internal employees have been formulated, the provision of disposable plastic tableware in the store and the sale of rinse-off products containing microplastics have been stopped, and how to reduce the number of parts has been studied. Vegetables and fruits are packaged, but it is only a solution to the symptoms and not the cure. There is no overall plan to reduce the use of disposable plastics, and there is no incentive to encourage self-contained containers. Chen Kechun, the director of the Greenpeace project, said, "Reducing (glue) to a few light weights is the glue." If you only focus on reducing the weight of plastic packaging, you are "walking the wrong way", and bluntly "lazy and lazy will be eliminated by the trend of plastic molding.
The same is an apple, and there are options for encapsulation and non-encapsulation in the same supermarket. (Provided by Greenpeace)
The highest score Watsons Group scored only 27.1 points
As for the highest score, the Watson Group has established a working group responsible for formulating plastic packaging guidelines with suppliers, setting up guidelines for using environmentally friendly packaging in its own brand, offering discounts on self-contained containers, and willing to provide sales of some disposable plastic products. The amount and the effectiveness of the initiative to publicly disclose the trial plan for naked selling of fruits and vegetables, but the overall score was only 27.1 points.
Chen Kechun believes that it is a good thing to add a "naked buy supplement station" to the GREAT supermarket in Pacific Place, Admiralty. The group also said that it will expand the plan, but has not provided further details, nor has it provided a specific comprehensive plastic timetable and target, or plastic The amount of use cannot estimate how much plastic is saved by the current policy. For example, Carrefour Taiwan has already implemented a green bag sharing policy. If customers forget to bring their own bags, they can rent a green bag for a deposit and return it at a designated store within 30 days. The shopping bag is cleaned by the laundry company and returned to the supermarket for backup. Reduce customer convenience and achieve plastic reduction. She also pointed out that Discovery Bay Fusion has also tried to share environmentally friendly shopping bags, questioning why it cannot be extended to all branches.
YATA provides comprehensive plastic packaging usage
The second-ranked Yi Tian (16.7 points), without flat-top plastic bags in the store and a paper-based beverage collection box outside the store, also offers naked packaged goods sales, and is the only one that provides comprehensive plastic packaging usage Supermarket. Chen Kechun pointed out that Yida claims to use biodegradable plastic bags, but it only makes the plastic bags more fragile into microplastics, which brings more serious environmental pollution.
The remaining supermarkets did not respond to Greenpeace's questionnaire survey, and they could only score through limited public information on the Internet, with only 0 to 1.9 points.
Some supermarkets use fruit nets to add fresh-keeping paper, layer by layer to wrap vegetables and fruits. (Provided by Greenpeace)
Supermarkets blame "Hong Kong people are ready?"
In recent years, Huan Tuan has continued to monitor the use of plastic in supermarkets. No targets have been found for the complete elimination of disposable plastic products, and the words "Hong Kong people are ready?" (Are Hong Kong people ready?), "Hong Kong's wet weather, we need to pack more glue" Waiting for an excuse, Chen Kechun believes that the supermarket "encapsulation" is mostly for operational convenience. If the "encapsulation" is for epidemic prevention, there have been studies that the new coronavirus can survive on the plastic surface for three days. "There is no way for the material to protect everyone's safety. The most important thing is to wash your hands and clean. "
Chen Kechun said that under the epidemic, the public inevitably manufacture plastic waste for epidemic prevention, but they still have the option of plastic molding when buying food ingredients and daily necessities, and hope that the leading supermarket will take corporate responsibility as soon as possible and lead the industry to remove unnecessary packaging.
Huantu Greenpeace released the "Hong Kong Chain Supermarket Walking Plastic Rating Report", which distributes scores for the supermarkets of the seven major groups in Hong Kong, and finds that all supermarkets "walking plastic" perform as "fatty". (Photo by Lao Minyi)
Wellcome expects plastic consumption to be reduced by 25% this year
Wellcome replied that it is gradually reducing the use of plastic packaging in fresh food centers and stores. It is also practicable to take care of materials and reduce waste with suppliers. It aims to reduce plastic packaging on 1.8 million fresh products during the year. The usage will be reduced by 25% during the year. The spokesman believes that the survey failed to reflect Wellcome's plastic reduction work this year.
Greenpeace also received supplementary information from Wellcome's "walking plastic" measures yesterday (18th). After the evaluation, the total score can be increased to 19 points, but it believes that there is still much room for improvement, and encourages it to accelerate the reduction of plastic use.
PARKnSHOP replied that since the end of May last year, plastic reduction measures have been piloted in 3 local university branches, and most of the fresh fruits and vegetables in the store have been converted into bulk sales, which has saved about 33,000 pieces of plastic packaging. It has been extended to a total of 9 stores; it has also launched the "Eco-Bag Sharing" program in 2 stores, which has now been extended to 13 stores, and is actively working with suppliers to find ways to reduce plastic packaging without compromising product quality.
Yi Tian: The epidemic has increased citizens' demands for food packaging
Yida replied that since the end of last year, Xinpugang has been arranged as a pilot. Under the pre-protection of food quality, some fruits were selected to avoid packaging and independent sale; however, due to the epidemic, the public has increased requirements for food packaging, so The relevant plans will be postponed and will continue to be implemented when the epidemic situation improves; another arrangement has been made to replace the degradable plastic bags in June.
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