Plastic Waste Weighs Heavily on Environment|台人每年耗20億飲料杯 生態嚴重衝擊
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Handmade drinks are extremely popular, but the single-use cups also generate lots of waste. The Society of Wilderness says the people of Taiwan spend NT$2 billion on beverage cups a year. During beach cleanup activities in 2019, it was found that 70 percent of marine trash were related to drinks, including 73.2 percent generated by beverages. The Environmental Protection Administration says the objective is to eliminate disposable tableware and plastic cups by 2025.
A recent beach cleanup activity collected a large pile of marine trash, including nearly a thousand beverage cups, which have been used to create a snowman. Handmade drinks may be very popular, but they are also very harmful to the environment. The Society of Wilderness recently released statistics from its beach cleanup activities in 2019. The list of top 10 types of marine trash included plastic bottle caps, plastic bottles, straws, fishing floats, disposable tableware, and takeout beverage cups.
These plastic, disposable cups wash up on the beach after typhoons. A very huge amount is also flushed out by rivers.
The Society of Wilderness says 70 percent of the top 10 types of marine trash are related to drinks. Of that amount, drink-related trash, including cups, bottles, and straws, accounted for 73.2 percent, while food-related trash, including tableware and containers, accounted for 26.8 percent. Environmental groups urge the public to utilize reusable tableware and cups, saying this can help to significantly reduce the volume of marine trash. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Administration has set an objective of prohibiting disposable tableware and drink cups by 2030. It hopes to carry out Taiwan's anti-plastic campaign in line with United Nations objectives for fighting against plastic pollution.
In reality, limiting and reducing plastic use until zero plastic is achieved is a global trend and direction. The United Nations Environment Assembly has set a goal of greatly reducing the use of disposable plastic goods by 2030. We will work in line with this direction.
The EPA banned four types of stores from providing plastic straws in July. It aims to ban the use of all disposable plastic goods such as cups, tableware, and straws by 2025 and use quantities to regulate prices. It says it will need to discuss this issue with society and reach a consensus in order to effectively achieve this goal.
從淨灘回收的海洋垃圾中，挑揀出近千個飲料杯，堆疊成雪人造型，突顯手搖飲文化，其實對環境造成嚴重負擔。荒野保護協會分析、公布2019年淨灘數據，前十名海洋廢棄物包含塑膠瓶蓋、寶特瓶、吸管、漁業浮球浮筒，免洗餐具、外帶飲料杯也都榜上有名。
荒野保護協會理事長 劉月梅表示：「颱風過後，你在海邊撿到這種塑膠杯一次性的，然後從河流沖出來的量，是很大的，非常大，非常大。」
荒野保護協會指出，前十名海廢數量，七成都和「飲食」有關，從中進一步分析，杯子、瓶罐、吸管這些和「飲料」有關的，佔73.2%；和「食物」有關的餐具、容器，佔26.8%。環團認為，民眾如果可以盡量自備環保餐具、環保杯，就能大幅降低海洋受到垃圾汙染。環保署回應，聯合國已制定目標，2030年希望全面禁用免洗餐具、飲料杯，台灣限塑時程的大方向，也希望跟著聯合國目標進行。
環保署廢管處副處長 劉瑞祥表示：「事實上關於限塑、減塑，一直到無塑，這個是國際的趨勢跟潮流，那聯合國的環境大會，也是訂定在，希望能夠在2030年，大幅削減一次性用的塑膠製品使用，然後我們會朝這個方向，來盡全面的努力。」
今年7月開始，環保署就限制連鎖速食店等四大場所，內用不可以提供塑膠吸管，環保署也計畫在2025年，針對飲料杯、免洗餐具、吸管等一次性塑膠製品，全面限用、以量制價，不過具體如何執行？環保署強調，還需要社會凝聚共識討論。
