Waste Plastic Bottles "Transformed" into Cooking Oil Bottles

The plastic drink bottle picked up on the street was washed with oil. Do you dare to eat such oil? The reporter recently received reports from readers that in the vegetable markets of Hengfeng, Muyu and Zeguo in Wenling, some edible oil stalls have been filled with recycled plastic beverage bottles. On June 23, the reporter conducted an unannounced visit to the vegetable market in Muyu and other places.

Recycling bottle stands on the booth

From the entrance to the Muyu Vegetable Market, there are four or five edible oil stalls on both sides. In the prominent position of the booth, there are peanut oil, soybean blend oil and other original oils.

The reporter found that there is a bulk oil pumping unit in these edible oil booths. There are various bottled sample oils on the platform of the pumping unit. It is noteworthy that these sample oil containers are used plastic beverages. bottle.

"Buy oil? Boss!" Before a booth, see the reporters come to the door, the booth owners warmly greeted them. She told reporters that there are two types of bulk oil, rapeseed oil and salad oil. If you bring your own container, you can charge it by the amount of pounds. If you do not bring containers, she can provide free plastic beverage bottles. The price of both oils is the same. It is a bottle of 4.5 yuan. She also said that compared with the original oil, bulk oil prices are much cheaper, plus the convenience of carrying plastic drink bottles is provided free of charge, and sales have been good.

Is this bottle clean? When the reporter asked this question, the stall owner shouted out loud: "You can rest assured that the bottle was washed with clean water before loading it!"

The reporter circled the Muyu vegetable market and found that there were as many as seven or eight stalls in similar situations. The Hengfeng vegetable market is also the same situation.

Afterwards, the reporter went to Zeguo Vegetable Market again. On a narrow trail, the reporter saw that a variety of beverage bottles were messyly piled up at a cooking oil stall. A seven-year-old girl squatted on the edge and was busy tearing the bottle's trademark, sprite and cola. Various beverage bottles, such as mineral water, are available. The little girl told reporters: "The bottle was sent over for waste."

Scrap owner: The old bottles are sold

The reporter then followed the source of the old bottle.

Since it was the collection of waste, the reporter found a waste collection station on the edge of Zemu Road. After the reporter explained what he meant, the owner of the waste station did not have any concerns and chatted with reporters. He told reporters that some time ago, some stalls selling oil to find him, said to buy high-priced plastic beverage bottled edible oil from him, the requirements of the bottle is better, the bottle intact, strong sealing cap.

"The price of plastic drink bottles was once a hair to a hair, five, and now only two or three points. The owner of the oil sellers voluntarily spends a hairy price, and I certainly sold it." The promise of high prices makes the waste station owner I am very happy that when I order my bottle, he often picks out some good bottles and waits for the owner of the oil shop to pick up the goods.

The availability of plastic bottled oil is high, and some of the edible oil stall owners in the farms have followed suit and used the idea of ​​used plastic beverage bottles. For a while, the slightly better bottle of beverage began to tighten.

The owner of the junkyard told the reporter that some of the “small three rounds” that had long used the streets to collect waste products had seen profitable, and they also took waste bottles to the oil stores to sell.

Where does this bottled oil flow?

"After seeing this kind of bottle and thinking that others had left saliva on it, it would be disgusting. What would happen if there was any epidemic? In order to save some money, it is not worth it." A Mr. Xu, who is shopping, told reporters.

The average resident will not buy this oil, but in order to save money, many migrant workers will choose to buy it. In the Zeguo Vegetable Market, a Hubeiese man who just bought oil told reporters that he was working in a nearby factory. His wages were only 40 yuan a day. Knowing that buying such oil is harmful, but there is no way, because it is cheap. "A bottle of 4 more, can withstand; like a bottle of original oil tens of dollars, simply can not afford!"

During the interview, the reporter noticed such a detail: A stall owner told the reporter “candidly” that the quality of the oil was not good. If he bought it himself, he had better buy the original oil. “There are a lot of street-selling fried foods that I buy here because of their cheapness.” According to people familiar with the situation, the biggest customers of this oil are street food shops, food stalls, and mobile food stalls, and even some schools. The fried food stalls at the entrance all buy these oils.

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