What are the dangers of disposable items?

As our living standards improve, our requirements for quality of life have also begun to increase. In many cases, we are no longer accustomed to using reusable things. For the so-called health and hygiene, we use disposable items, such as disposable chopsticks, gloves, paper cups, tableware, etc. What are the hazards of disposable items? In fact, disposable items are very harmful. Not only are they not beneficial to health, but their sanitary quality is also not guaranteed.

What are the hazards of disposable items:

1. Large resource consumption. Taking disposable chopsticks as an example, my country’s forest coverage rate is only 16.55%, but it is a major exporter of disposable wooden chopsticks. The disposable chopstick industry in northern my country alone exports 15 billion pairs of wooden chopsticks to Japan and South Korea every year, consuming 1.3 million cubic meters of materials, which is equivalent to reducing forest stock by 2 million cubic meters, greatly reducing the results of my country's mountain closure and afforestation efforts. At the same time, my country itself is also a major consumer of disposable chopsticks. Behind the convenience and speed brought by disposable chopsticks is the shocking consumption of resources.

2. Environmental pollution problem. Taking disposable lunch boxes as an example, disposable foam tableware uses a large amount of foaming agents, which are ozone-depleting substances, during the production process, thus endangering the ozone layer; lunch boxes made of styrene have an extremely long degradation cycle, which can take up to about 200 years under normal conditions and is difficult to completely degrade.

3. Hygiene issues. As a fast-moving consumer product, disposable products are often cheap but of poor quality. The chaotic market situation makes it difficult to guarantee product quality. Due to low entry barriers, lax supervision, lack of strict hygiene standards and effective market supervision system, manufacturing companies are of varying quality, and the market is flooded with low-quality and cheap disposable products, posing a hidden danger to public health.

By understanding the hazards of these disposable items, I believe everyone knows the impact of these items on our lives and bodies. In fact, we use them for the purpose of hygiene and health, but often they are not as clean and hygienic as we think. On the contrary, they are even more unhygienic. Therefore, for your own health and safety and the entire ecological environment, try to use less of these disposable items.