Baote bottle, also known as Baote bottle, is a common plastic bottle in Hong Kong and Macao, called plastic bottle, in which "Baote" is a transliteration of English "PET". PET is polyethylene terephthalate (polyethylene? Terephthalate) is the raw material for making baote bottles.
From 1967, Nathaniel Wyeth, who works for DuPont, began to develop plastic bottles that can hold carbonated drinks. Bote bottle is his research and development achievement, and DuPont obtained the patent of Bote bottle in 1973.
Baote bottle has the characteristics of good toughness, light weight, good air tightness and acid and alkali resistance. It is a common container for holding soft drinks, fruit juice, carbonated drinks and so on. However, the heat resistance of Baote bottle is low, so it can't be filled with high-temperature liquid. It should also be avoided in the hot sun and in cars without air conditioning. Baote bottle should be sent to the recycling point after use.
In modern society, a large number of bottles are made and used, but bottles can't decompose naturally, so how to deal with the garbage of bottles has become a major environmental problem facing modern society. Because bottles can be recycled and reused, many societies have recycling mechanisms for bottles.
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The ball sells about 6.5438 million plastic bottles per minute, which will jump by 20% before 202 1. By then, more than 500 billion plastic bottles will be used worldwide every year. Environmentalists worry that the human recycling system will not be able to bear this huge amount, which will lead to an environmental crisis as serious as climate change.
The global sales of 20,000 plastic bottles per second mainly come from the huge demand for bottled water. Euromonitor's Global Packaging Trend Report estimates that the global sales of plastic beverage bottles will exceed 480 billion in 20 16, compared with 300 billion ten years ago, and will increase to 583.3 billion in 20021year.
Most plastic bottles used to hold non-alcoholic beverages or purified water belong to Bote bottles, and the main material is recyclable polyethylene terephthalate, but the recycling capacity of plastic bottles is far behind the growth rate of plastic bottles.
According to the report, last year, for example, the number of plastic bottles recycled worldwide was less than half of the number sold, and only 7% of them were made into new bottles. The rest of the plastic bottles are sent to landfills or oceans.
Allen? Research by MacArthur Foundation shows that 5 million to130,000 tons of plastics flow into the ocean every year and are eaten by seabirds, fish and other marine life. By 2050, the total weight of plastics in the ocean will exceed that of fish.
Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium recently estimated that people who eat seafood can swallow as many as 1 1000 plastic particles every year. Last August, a study by Plymouth University found that one third of the fish caught in Britain contained plastic. The relevant departments of the European Union have called for urgent research on the grounds that "plastic particles may pollute edible fish caught in commercial fishing", and their doubts about human health and food safety are increasing.
Taignon, a member of the environmental protection organization Anti-sewage Surfers, said: "The plastic pollution crisis is approaching the threat of climate change, because it pollutes every natural system and more and more creatures. Science shows that plastic cannot be absorbed by the food chain, and no matter where it is digested, it will bring toxins to our table. "
The organization advocates the implementation of plastic bottle recycling deposit system and encourages reuse. Taignon said: "Although the output of disposable plastic bottles has increased rapidly in the past 20 years, the control and recycling mechanism of consumption has not kept pace."
People are increasingly worried about the seriousness of marine plastic pollution. Last month, scientists found that an extremely remote and uninhabited coral reef in the South Pacific was covered with nearly 18 tons of plastic waste. Another survey found that the polar seashore suffered serious plastic pollution despite its small population.
Public trust. Com-65438+ 00,000 per minute! Global discarded plastic bottles will cause a serious environmental crisis.
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