I join the shopping of my wife on the weekend. It became natural to pay for a plastic bag (shopping bag) of 3 yen or 5 yen per piece in the supermarket these days. We bring our own shopping bag since quite a while ago. The shopping basket of the person who lined up in front of us at the cash register is full of goods and plastic bottles wrapped in plastic, vinyl, a plastic bag. As a result, the number of plastic, vinyl to be used cannot be odd quantity when we prepare meals. If the number of side dishes of the meal increases and the number of times of the meal increases there is no place to put them in the kitchen.
Plastic is used for mass commodification of the food. To protect a constant share from damage? Is packing possible? Is mass transport possible? Is it a guarantee of quality? Is product contents indication possible? Our daily life greatly changed in a certain time by using plastic, vinyl, a plastic bag. In a sense it may be said that our life became convenient.
Do you know that plastic comes to threaten creature or even human life as a piece of micro-plastic (less than 5 millimeters) which we can hardly see with the naked eye? It is the fact that it has been taken by a fish, a living thing, a human being mixed in a river, the sea, a sandy beach, land or from breathing. Plastic of 5.9kg, 25 x plastic bag, 115 x ramen cup, 4 x plastic bottle, 2 x sandals, a rope seemed to be found in the stomach of the whale which drifted to Indonesia. Plastic, a poly bag, a pet bottle threaten the life of the creature. The collection is very urgent.
You should be aware that you dispose of the garbage of the own country at home. The waste which we used is said to be an urban mine of precious mineral resources. Since the earth has a limit of resources, recycling is absolutely necessary. Therefore, we should raise our awareness and should take good care of nature.
Government should provide more energy and funds for resources reuse of the garbage and should start a reform. I think that we should do a reasonable burden.
It was natural for us to bring the shopping basket to the store as there was not a poly bag when I was a child. Paper-thin sheets of wood and a piece of old newspaper were utilized to wrap a foodstuff when we went to the market. The rice ball of the lunch was wrapped in a bamboo sheath. I remembered that I bring with a brazen bowl filled with water for buying a piece of bean curd (tofu) and bringing an empty bottle for the soy sauce and the liquor. I remember that fermented soybeans (natto) were wrapped by straw for sale to help fermenting more.
On the other hand, the mender of daily necessities came and fixed the hole of a cookpot and amend the broken umbrella. An iron scraps shop would buy unnecessary iron stuff. So I used to gather small nails, iron pieces by pulling a string knotting a magnet. Things left over after meal should be brought by a garbage collector for breeding pigs. Because it is the hungry times, the leftovers like now cannot appear in large quantities. The few leftovers were used for the manure of the home field. By the way, the Edo era, 400 years ago was called as Eco era had nothing to throw away in our everyday life. It was said to be the times recycled by 100%
According to the American employment statistics of June, the number of the employees of the non-agriculture section increased 224,000 people compared with the month before. As for the unemployment rate, 0.1 points turn worse to 3.7% from pre-these past months. But it is almost perfect employment. The mean hourly wage went 3.1% up to 27.90 dollars compared with the previous year and it keeps 3% of growth over 11 months running. The U.S. economy is still healthy.
On June 29, additional duty of 300 billion dollars to China products has been postponed in G20 at the Top talk of 2 countries between USA President, Trump and Chinese President, Xi Jinping. The big confusion was avoided. According to the American retail industry (NRF), they expect the import cargo from China of August and October to become more than the same month, last year and the monthly highest record respectively. It is said that cheap Chinese currency may weaken US duty pressure to some extent.
A multinational enterprise changes a Chinese production base to Southeast Asia. As a result, export for US from the Southeastern Asian major country increases. Major American suppliers of personal computer major such as HP, Dell announced to, transfer 30% PC production of China to Southeast Asia in the future. Amazon.com, Microsoft seem to examine the dispersion of the production base, too. The shift of the production bases from China to Southeast Asia does not stop.
The pork price soars in China by a livestock epidemic and outbreak of Africa cholera. On the other hand, import chicken wholesale is raising because consumption of meat change from pork to cheap chicken. It promotes a shipping company and leasing company to order the reefer container.
New container price is $1,780 per 20f which is lower than $20 from the last month. The total number of the Chinese new production container is 1,046,110TEU (Dry: 990,190TEU, Reefer: It is 55,920TEU).
The freight rate restoration has been carried out in July more than 300 dollars in US west coast and East coast respectively. It was the result that each Alliances moved in loading capacity reduction. On the other hand, a fare is sluggish on the European route because movement of the loading capacity reduction was dull. The movement of reducing loading capacity appears a bit in European trade but the freight rate restoration is unpredictable towards the summertime because 2M do not join in the movement even now. The surplus ship disturbs the fare restoration. We should take to heart that we can be never the sole winner. I really wish each shipping line offers better service to the shipper and try to endeavor to get the reasonable fare from the shipper.
Finally iron scraps, plastic garbage, household appliance garbage, life garbage have been seen to be kept weather-beaten within the range of our life. I want to propose that 2nd hand container is used for the safekeeping. Container can store Max 20~24 tons for 20f and approximately 36 tons for 40f. You can make good use of the small space if you pile them up 3 or 4 stories. You can protect garbage from rain and wind. You can protect from smell by using a container and it is good sanitarily. Of course the beautiful sight improves, too. On the other hand, it is easy when you move a container piled up in other places. But it is necessary to take building certification out of the government office when you use a container as a warehouse in Japan. It is certain that it is outdated regulation. I want to correct it early.
We EFI can meet all these demands. We have been handling the new and used container (Dry, Reefer, Tank), other special containers, Chassis, Container Seal, Reachstacker etc. We could offer leasing of them, too. It is service of “One Stop All Completed.”