Media reports or plastic shopping bags, medical waste materials

"Plastic limit" the application of three years, most domestic markets are still using "plastic limit" banned ultra-thin plastic bags. Yesterday, CCTV, "Weekly Quality Report" exposure in the production of such a thickness of less than 0.025 mm plastic shopping bags, some of the black heart of the manufacturer in order to save costs, the use of recycled materials, as raw material. Experts say, recycling resources complex, some even with medical waste, dressed in ultra-thin plastic bags, food, unknown substances can migrate into food, human health risks.

Anhui Tongcheng city is the famous double "Plastic City," CCTV journalists and officials visited local law enforcement more than a dozen plastic bag manufacturer, found that almost every product prohibited by the state are, production, sale and use of bags ultra-thin plastic. Journalists in the survey revealed that in order to reduce costs even lower, Tongcheng some plastic bags with a piece of cut particles of plastics manufacturing plant as raw material. Staff said there are new materials and raw materials in red, white recycled materials, recycling much lower prices than new material, so that the amount of recycled material used determines the price of plastic bags produced. Manufacturers typically use 30% recycled material, but also manufacturers all made from recycled materials.
Experts, materials processing, recycling plastic bags of food if used to dress, who can bring health risks for food. National Plastic Products Quality Supervision and Inspection Center Yunxuan Weng, deputy director, said the source of recycled materials is more complex, and some may be medical waste, some can come across with some loss, some of which is not conducive to human health of substances can migrate into food, causing risks to human health. And plastic at high temperatures, some materials more easily precipitated.                                    2011-6-6