White pollution is a term used by China and most journals and reports with respect to it I find are in mandarin. In this case, I try to translate the titles and materials as accurate as I can. I hope my translation will not cause any confusion.
2. Xiaopeng, Fan. "Research on our country's legal regulation on ''White Pollution'' " May,2009
4. Zhen, Cao. "White Pollution and its coping strategy" Henan Cheminal Industry,February, 2012
5. Yuanyuan, Li and Zirui, Zhou. "Investigation on White Pollution" July, 2009
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This journal is a complete analysis of white pollution. It provides the readers with a clear understanding of white pollution. Two drawbacks of white pollution are vision pollution and potential damages. Potential damages include turning soil into sediment and contaminating waters. Plastics that reach 650 Celsius will automatically produce harmful substance to humans. Also, plastics pollutes air and takes too much space.
This research aims to find out the advantages and disadvantages of "the ban on free plastic bags". It explains that one reason why China has been unable to root out white pollution is because the loopholes in legislation regarding white pollution. In the recycle system of plastics, the author finds out that there' re drawbacks in each level of the system. The author proposes to improve "the banning law" by improving the principle, guiding ideology and governance.
This research first introduces plastic-bag ban. And then show its results on investigation on common people about their awareness of plastic-bag ban and of environmental protection.
The journal explains the coping strategy to white pollution after stating the drawbacks of white pollution. In recent decades, the enormous use of nearly non-disposable plastics cause serious white pollution, which severely affects people's health and growth of animals and plants. Moreover, the pollution weakens the soil's permeability and results in crop production. "The banning law" controls the pollution to some extent, yet to fully control "white pollution", the author claims that we should adhere to the principle of “source controlling, recycling, gradual banning, and replacing”. For instance, developing disposable "green plastics" and converting various kinds of energy.
This report is conducted after "the banning law" has been legislated a year. It aims to learn about ordinary people's recognition of white pollution. The 100 subjects are students, citizens and workers. From the results, it shows that about half of the subjects have the knowledge that plastic products and disposable items are not environmental. And also about half of them accept the charge on plastic bags and the repeated use of cloth bags.
A mulch is a layer of something such as old leaves, small pieces of wood, or manure which you put on the soil around plants in order to protect them and help them to grow. The journal introduces that Xinjiang Province in China has become the biggest victim of plastic-film mulch. Starting from 1980s, Xinjiang employs plastic-film mulch on cotton planting. The technique brings large output and by 2012, Xinjiang's output takes half of the total output of cotton in China. However, plastic-film residue accumulates in farmland in past 30 years. Cotton seeds won't survive on residue and this hugely reduce output. The journal also provides data on the reduction of output and measurement of mulch.
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