Sorting garbage can help remove toxic plastic

THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORM COMMISSION, China's top economic planning body, is soliciting public opinions on how to better prevent and control the pollution caused by plastic waste. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

A worrisome fact is a lot of toxic plastic is recycled, entering people's lives again. Toxic plastic can discharge noxious substances in the process of production, use and reuse, and once the toxic plastics are remade into toys and food containers, they pose a direct threat to people's health.

To some extent, it is almost impossible to remove them from circulation. But new measures are needed to strictly control the use of toxic chemicals in making plastic products, the processing of which should be put under strict monitoring, so as to prevent them from being recycled to make new plastics.