With the increasingly serious issue of "environmental protection" and the national call for energy conservation and emission reduction, finding alternatives to plastics has become an important issue. For example, at this year's Two Sessions, Hu Jiqiang, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Kangenba Group, raised a question in the fourth group discussion of the Zhejiang delegation: "Have you ever thought that if many things in our lives can be replaced by bamboo, it will give What changes did the environment bring about?"

Bamboo can be cut down every year and grow every year. It is a sustainable species. It is widely distributed in more than 20 provinces across the country and has a huge resource reserve. Bamboo can be used to replace plastic products in many fields such as daily necessities and packaging. There are more than 100 series and tens of thousands of varieties of bamboo products developed.

With the improvement of production technology and process, bamboo is not limited to replacing plastic products, but can also replace traditional materials such as metal and cement. For example, bamboo winding composite materials, the main raw material of which is renewable and recyclable fast-growing plant bamboo, the breakthrough of bamboo winding composite material technology makes it possible to replace steel, cement, plastic and glass with bamboo products in many fields, resulting in Very significant carbon reduction benefits.

It is understood that at present, about 150 million tons of bamboo can be cut in my country every year, 40 million tons of which have been used, and 110 million tons of bamboo are still idle. If these bamboos are all utilized and processed into bamboo winding composite materials to replace reinforced concrete, etc., 170 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced each year, accounting for 1.7% of China's current annual carbon emissions. Relevant studies have shown that the annual carbon storage capacity of 1 hectare of moso bamboo is 5.09 tons, which is 1.46 times that of fir and 1.33 times that of tropical rain forest.

At the same time, plastic disposable tableware is the plastic product we most often come into contact with in our daily life. With the development of the food delivery industry, the use of disposable plastic products has also risen sharply. Some media reports said, "Takeaway plastic bags fifteen One day can cover a West Lake", "The takeaway boxes thrown away in a day can pile up more than 330 Mount Everest"... If the above calculation method is used, the takeaway garbage in 2020 has become "takeaway plastic bags less than three days Can cover a West Lake", "Takeaway boxes can pile up 770 Everests a day

In addition, some media have found through interviews, data sorting, and calculations that the weight of plastic waste in the national takeaway garbage in 2020 is about 578,000 tons to 1.6 million tons. It will cost about 2.45 billion yuan to harmlessly dispose of 1.6 million tons of plastic waste, and the cost will be borne by the taxes and fees paid by each of us.

The pollution of plastic products to the environment is well known. According to the statistics of urban domestic waste disposal methods in China in 2021, the current disposal methods of disposable lunch boxes are still 52% landfill and 45% incineration. The simple landfill disposal method will cause a large number of bacteria to lurk in the discarded plastic meals. and pollute the soil and groundwater sources for a long time, and the sulfur dioxide and dioxin released by incineration are more likely to cause respiratory infection and physical disease of the human body, and bring serious air pollution.

For this reason, the environmental pollution problem caused by plastic tableware has prompted a series of policies from "plastic restriction" to "plastic ban" at home and abroad. At the same time, under the background of the global plastic ban, new products and new technologies are constantly emerging in the field of plant fiber lunch boxes, and its development in the new stage is facing huge opportunities.

As one of the categories of plant fiber lunch boxes, disposable bamboo fiber tableware has unique advantages. For example, resource advantages: my country is the country with the largest bamboo forest area, the most abundant bamboo resources, and the most developed bamboo industrialization in the world; material advantages: bamboo has the characteristics of good toughness and short cultivation cycle; technical advantages: bamboo fiber is natural Excellent material properties (good strength and toughness, large bulk ratio, moderate slenderness ratio) combined with simple pretreatment methods such as sodium sulfite and steam explosion, can prepare bamboo fiber lunch box raw materials with excellent performance.