Eco-friendly lunch boxes have become abandoned children

From January 1, 2001, China completely eliminated the production of disposable foam tableware. Faced with the vast space of demand for 600 million pieces of environmental protection tableware in Harbin City, some companies have invested in them. What did not come to mind was that today, a year and a half later, these companies have successively stopped production or went bankrupt...
The reporter learned from relevant departments that the manufacturers of environmental protection lunch boxes in Harbin have shrunk and there are few leftovers. The environmental food boxes on the market are also "existing in name only."
Why is it that one-and-a-half years after the country's “white ban” today, one-time foaming lunch boxes can still be sold hot in the “dark place”, but the environmental protection lunch boxes are difficult to move?
In the investigation, the reporter found that in Harbin, only the “Green Ring” company, which produces environmentally-friendly lunch boxes, is in normal operation, and its entire degradable products are in a leading position in China and have reached the international advanced level. It produces 300 million degradable cutlery and exports more than 10 countries annually. However, in the Harbin market, only tens of thousands of degradable lunch boxes are sold in the Central Mall, and other hotels such as Singapore and Shangri-La are in use. A person in charge of the company said: "Our products are mainly exported. The main reason why the domestic market can't get in is because a large number of fake degradable tableware and foamed tableware flood the market." Strong enterprises can export, and for small-scale processing For the factory, it is difficult. "Green Jie Bao" is a welfare factory. It was forced to stop production a month ago. Curry has accumulated a large number of decomposing lunch boxes. Over the past few days, Zhang Haijun, the person in charge of the plant, had to “splash and tear” to wholesale at the same price as a disposable foaming lunch box, and sold a part of the backlog of food boxes one after another. In the face of discontinued equipment and backlog of goods, Zhang Haijun said with a sad face: "You can only wait for the market to 'purify' and then produce it."
Behind this, the sale of the foaming lunch boxes is a matter of repairing the plank road and obscuring the warehouse. It is very hot. In the small commodity wholesale market of Harbin, the second floor of the Antarctic wholesale market, disposable tableware stalls are placed on environmentally friendly tableware. When a reporter from a foreign businessman with the owner said that he needed a lot of disposable foam tableware, a stall owner was very Say carefully: "If you want more, follow me to Curry to pick it up." "I need 50,000 and pick it up at 3 pm." The stall owner immediately said: "When you come to get goods!" After asking a few stallholders, the answers are almost the same. In some of the morning markets in Harbin, it was discovered that there were many small mobile retailers pushing bicycles to sell disposable foaming lunch boxes and plastic bags to restaurants and stalls. In view of this, driven by interest, there is still a large market for foaming lunch boxes.
According to the director of the Harbin Environmental Protection Industry Office, Mr. Sun introduced: Harbin’s annual demand for disposable tableware is 600 million. After the implementation of the “banned white goods” on January 1, 2001, the merchants were optimistic about this “squeeze” project and they were scrambling to register. Introduce equipment. After more than one year of operation, due to immature technology and unsatisfactory markets, business operations have become sluggish, and some have stopped production. At present, environmental protection lunch boxes on the market are almost replaced by plastic bags. Except for some big hotels, most small restaurants and mobile fast food shops use plastic bags and disposable foam boxes.
Why is it difficult to establish a market-friendly lunch box? An insider analysis: At present, environmental protection meal boxes still belong to the "running-in" period. In addition to price reasons, it is also necessary to constantly adjust and improve the market operating mechanism.