Huzhou in East China's Zhejiang province is set to ban or restrict the use of disposable plastic products in public institutions and State-owned enterprises by the end of 2020. [Photo/WeChat account: huzhoufabu]

Huzhou in East China's Zhejiang province recently unveiled an action plan to strengthen the treatment of plastic pollution from 2021 to 2023.

By the end of this year, the city will ban or restrict the use of disposable plastic products in public institutions and State-owned enterprises. It will also experiment with the plastic ban in venues like grocery stores, hotels, restaurants, and supermarkets. 

Efforts will be made to promote the transformation of local disposable plastic product manufacturers and reduce the consumption of plastics in the logistics sector.

As of the end of 2022, the consumption of disposable plastic products will be significantly reduced in fields that produce large amounts of plastic pollution, as well as emerging fields like e-commerce, express delivery, and food delivery. In addition, alternative products will be widely promoted.

A supervisory mechanism for the production, circulation, consumption, recycling, and disposal of plastic products will be mostly established in Huzhou by the end of 2023, the document said.

Alternative products will also be further promoted, basically meeting all the city's requirements.

Zhejiang has vowed that all prefecture-level cities, as well as half of all counties and county-level cities in the province will become "waste-free cities" by the end of 2023.