Not only flowers, many Valentine‘s Day gifts such as chocolate, toys, etc., after plastic, paper, rattan, metal and other packaging, prices have also soared.

However, behind these so-called beautiful and romantic packaging, its waste is really sad. Some people in the industry gave reporters an account, every 2,000 paper consumption, need to cut down 1 tree. Nearly 50,000 bouquets of flowers are sold in Shanghai on a single Valentine‘s Day. If we estimate that every 11 flowers is 1 bunch and a total of 20 paper, 50,000 flowers need to consume 1 million paper, which requires cutting down 500 trees, which can almost create a small forest.

Many young people have begun to notice this waste. In Hong Kong, according to the group‘s concept of environmental protection, the flower delivery culture is not in line with environmental principles, because flower farmers will use a large amount of pesticides and fertilizers to grow a single flower on a large scale, which will pollute the soil and water sources; Most of the flowers in Hong Kong are imported by air from the Netherlands, New Zealand, etc. However, aircraft emit a lot of carbon dioxide, such as 1.35 tons of carbon dioxide emitted by one-way direct flights from the Netherlands to Hong Kong, which is 25% of the average annual emissions of Hong Kong people. In addition, flowers will fade after a few days of display, but Hong Kong lacks a mechanism for the disposal of organic waste, and the flowers are often sent to landfills for "burial" together with packaging materials, which cannot be converted into organic fertiliser. So, without compromising the expression of love, why not consider simple packaging, practical hand-made gifts or organic plants instead? If men can amuse women with minimal environmental cost, why not?

Sending flowers on Valentine‘s Day, in fact, like using plastic bags for shopping, is a habit or detail in life that can and cannot be. But it is such habits and details that reflect and test our concept of environmental protection. Plastic bags are flooded because of convenience, and the process of becoming "white pollution" because of flooding is not so much the fault of economic interests, but rather the collapse of environmental protection concepts.

Whether to send flowers, although it is only a "small evil" and "small good", but for environmental protection, what is a "green Valentine‘s Day"!