See if it's legal or not! Are QR codes printed on coffee cups and instant noodle bowls? Scan the QR code of the paper container to trace the source! 20% reporting bonus for reporting and recycling short and omission declarations

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In daily life, we have long been accustomed to taking a cup of coffee to refresh our minds in the morning, opening the delivery platform to order lunch boxes at noon, and ordering delicious cakes with colleagues in the afternoon, as a small blessing of the day, but enjoy the meal. In the future, what will you do with these paper cups and paper lunch boxes?




Subsequent classification is the key. Did you know that paper containers are not equal to paper?

In order to hold beverages and ingredients with soup, paper containers must have the function of waterproofing, heat preservation or even isolation from sunlight. Therefore, multiple layers of plastic films or aluminum foil insulation layers are added inside. Therefore, paper containers are not simply paper, but Composite material.

It is coated with a layer of waterproof and oil-proof plastic coating. When recycling, it must be more effort than ordinary paper to separate the plastic and paper fibers. If recycling is done well, recycled pulp can be remade into cartons and toilet paper.



In order to ensure that paper containers can be properly recycled, the EPA Recycling Fund Management Committee collects fees from front-end producers and manufacturers for paper container projects as a recycling fund to subsidize back-end recycling. However, the threshold for paper container manufacturing is low, and some unscrupulous businessmen do not want to pay the fee and avoid registration, so that many illegal paper containers are circulating in the market and become a black number for recycling.

According to 2020 data from the Environmental Protection Agency , Taiwan has 170,000 tons of paper containers recycled, but only 60,000 tons of manufacturing declarations; this means that more than 100,000 tons of paper containers have escaped payment.



In order to strengthen the management of responsible companies for paper tableware, the Environmental Protection Agency has revised the " Administrative Measures for Responsible Businesses of Recyclable Waste " to  manage unregistered responsible companies of paper tableware , requiring all newly produced paper containers to have a "traceable QR codeprinted on them.

In the future, as long as the public and EPA inspectors scan the QR code, they will be able to link to the information page to know whether the paper cups and paper lunch boxes in their hands are from legitimate companies.




In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency officially required all paper containers to be printed with "traceability QR code " in May 2022, which will be implemented in August 2022 to assist auditors in identifying the source of paper containers and speed up the tracking of black numbers; Inventory is sold during the buffer period, and within one year at the earliest, all legal paper containers on the market will have QR codes printed on them .


Scan QR code  for traceability


As long as the public picks up the mobile phone and scans the QR code on the paper container, it will be linked to the EPA website, and the screen will display "listed", which means that the container is from a registered legal business owner .

It is worth mentioning that the public can only know whether the manufacturer is legal or not. Environmental inspectors will have another set of exclusive apps. Scan the QR code to obtain complete manufacturer information to assist in subsequent inspections.




1. Scan the QR code of the paper container




2. After decoding, open the webpage




3. Check if the paper container is already listed




whistleblower bonus


In the future, if the public finds a paper container that does not have a QR code printed and is suspected to be from an illegal business owner, they can also report it according to Article 67 of the "Waste Disposal Law" , and there will be a certain percentage of the report bonus.

●As long as the public provides direct and specific evidence related to the evasion and payment of fees by the responsible operator, which is verified to be true, they can receive a 20% reporting bonus of the amount actually collected and paid.

● If the whistleblower is or has been the employee of the whistleblower, the whistleblower bonus amounting to 50% of the amount actually collected and paid can be obtained.

In addition to reporting by mail, fax, or on-site, reporting channels can also be done by scanning QR codes and accessing the Internet.

# Source: Yahoo News


Summarize


In recent years, due to the impact of the epidemic, the rise of delivery platforms has doubled the amount of paper containers. Due to the low technical threshold for paper containers, only a few forming machines and cutting machines can be produced, so that unscrupulous manufacturers deliberately understate the production volume. For example, only 50 tons of paper containers were declared, but in fact it was 80 tons, which caused the recycling fund to lose money year after year, increased the burden on incinerators, and exacerbated environmental problems such as air pollution and carbon emissions.

Through the supervision of the whole people, it only takes one minute to pick up the mobile phone and scan the QR code to know whether the industry has a legal declaration, and jointly contribute to the recycling of resources . In addition, while tracking the number of black paper containers It is also necessary to promote the "reduction" of paper containers, encourage the use of environmentally friendly tableware, and reduce the amount of paper containers.



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