In quite a long period of time in the past, part of the social public opinion to PS foam plastic tableware with the "white pollution" delimit equal sign, even regarded it as the "white pollution" of the culprit being criticized until issued an order prohibiting the production and application. To this question, how to view, we think first of all should face up to what is "white pollution"".
　　With the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standard, the amount of plastic products is increasing day by day. These plastic products, especially with the use of a large number of farmers markets, supermarkets and large-scale use of ultra-thin plastic bags, food and beverage industry disposable plastic fast food and agricultural production in the extensive use of plastic film, etc., used in these waste plastics in the environment can not easily be consumptive, a considerable number of scattered in the city, scenic areas, water, railway on both sides of the natural environment, serious impact on the landscape, environmental pollution, figuratively, as "white pollution". But the main reason for the "white pollution" is:
　　- plastic garbage didn't get proper management and processing, such as: urban sanitation infrastructure drag debts, garbage collection containers, disposal facilities are grossly inadequate; waste not classified collection, recovery is not fully recycling; waste final disposal is refuse to move, the stay in naked stacked level; some towns the river, the river, the lake as a natural garbage field. , in transportation, tourism, such as the window industry, in addition to the railway system. There is not a matched with the production and operation of the garbage collection system, drift waste produced in the process of operation.
　　Management is weak, the lack of relevant laws and regulations on plastic packaging waste, as well as people's environmental awareness is relatively weak, resulting in abuse and indiscriminate throwing down the phenomenon is quite common.
　　"White pollution" mainly refers to the environment caused by "visual pollution" and "potential natural harm" two kinds of negative effects. Visual pollution is that scattered in the environment of plastic waste destruction on the city, landscape, such as scattered in the natural environment, on both sides of railways, rivers and lakes of the PS foam plastic lunch boxes and all over the sky flying or hanging branches of the ultra-thin PE plastic bags, these to people's visual bring adverse stimulus, known as the "visual pollution". The people reacted strongly to this.
　　Potential hazard refers to the long-term environmental problems caused by the degradation of plastic waste, which is difficult to be degraded after entering the natural environment. The harm includes the following aspects:
　　, plastic film waste in soil in large area of residues of long-term accumulation, caused by soil compaction, the impact of crop nutrients and moisture, resulting in crop production.
　　To abandon the plastic waste on land or in the water, to be eaten as food by animals and to die.
　　And into the garbage of plastic waste due to the light weight, large volume, difficult to deal with, if the landfill will occupy a lot of land, and for a long time is not easy to degrade, mixed with plastic garbage is not suitable for composting. Now the community is most strongly reflected in the "visual pollution", and for the plastic waste to the environment of the potential hazards, most people still lack sufficient understanding.
　　The term "white pollution" is not scientific and rigorous, but as a kind of phenomenon, it can be understood as a reflection of the broad masses of the people in the management of environmental pollution. But the current "white pollution" refers to the word PS foam plastic tableware, disposable plastic waste is also not comprehensive and unfair. Because in recent years developed many alternatives such as paper, pulp, plant fiber, starch radical catering, although they are using natural materials as raw materials, by comparing the perishable degradation, but due to the addition of water and oil proof agents, and increase the waste decomposition of difficulty. It is proved that they used in regression natural need certain cycle and its degradation speed and to a large extent depending on environmental conditions. So for any of a class of degradable disposable tableware, any material of disposable products waste shall be strengthen collection and treatment, should not throw, in order to avoid a repeat of the new "white pollution", PS foam plastic tableware as a warning, should learn a lesson. Thus the exact definition of "white pollution" should be: whether it is the material of disposable consumer goods, the waste if not properly recycling and allow the spitting discarded, resulting in on the city landscape and ecological environment pollution and harm. Therefore, PS foam plastic tableware is not equal to the "white pollution", but not the culprit causing "white pollution". The cause of the "white pollution" is that people who are poorly managed and throw away rubbish are not the material itself.