How to ensure the smooth and healthy development of China's packaging industry, and to fully protect environmental resources, and to develop a new path of coordinated development between the two is the key to the implementation of the sustainable development strategy of the packaging industry. The essence of this "new approach" is to develop "green packaging" that is suitable for environmental protection and establish a green packaging development system. This is the best way and the best choice for the coordinated development of the packaging industry and environmental protection. The result of this "best choice" will undoubtedly lead to such a relationship: the packaging for development is a packaging for environmental protection - green packaging, maintaining a harmonious and beautiful environment is the sacred mission and objective requirement for the development of the packaging industry, and harmonious and graceful The environment is also a natural green treasure house for the development of the packaging industry.
I. Significance of developing green packaging 1. Green packaging is the objective requirement for sustainable development Under the impact of the current environmental protection tide in the world, the environment and development have become major issues of concern to the international community. In order to protect and improve their ecological environment and reduce the harm that industrial development brings to the environment, all countries attach great importance to the high-tech research on sustainable development strategies, environmental protection, resources, and energy conservation. They attach great importance to the formulation of laws and regulations to control pollution, and establish Green trade barriers, the import of contaminated products is strictly prohibited. Under such circumstances, all countries in the world have set off a green revolution to protect the environment and reduce pollution. Since the 1980s, a series of green products have been surging. "Green food", "green clothing", "green refrigerator", "green building materials", "green car", "green market" and "green city" have emerged one after another. There has been a massive wave of greenery around the world. The pollution caused by packaged waste to the city occupies a large share of the total pollution. According to the statistical statistics of developed countries in the Western countries, the amount of packaging waste is about one-third of the weight of municipal solid waste and two-fold of volume. One; In China's urban solid waste, the proportion of packaging waste is 15% of its weight, 25% of the volume. Therefore, reducing the green packaging of environmental pollution came into being. Green packaging has also become an important part of the green revolution that contributes to humanity. Green packaging is an inevitable trend for the development of the packaging industry, and whoever first realizes this will be the active and invincible position in the future competition in the world market.
(1) The origins of green packaging In 1987 and 1992, the United Nations Environment and Development Committee issued the “Our Common Future†Declaration and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21, and proposed the theory of sustainable development. A green wave centered around the protection of the environment and conservation of resources has been created throughout the world. Green represents natural growing plants, meaning that the vegetation is lush and vibrant, representing life and vitality; the green tide or green revolution is a declaration of environmental pollution and resource destruction, and calls for the creation of a clean, fresh, and returning nature to the human ecological environment. Group action.
Under the impact of the world's green wave, "green packaging" as a new concept to effectively solve the packaging and the environment emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This new concept is also known abroad as "pollution-free packaging" or "friends of the environment packaging."
(2) The connotation of green packaging From the analysis of the source of green packaging, we can see that the most important meaning of green packaging is to protect the environment, but also has the significance of resource regeneration. Specifically, it should have the following meanings:
1 Implement Reduce. The green packaging should be the least amount of appropriate packaging under the conditions of protection, convenience, and sales.
2 The packaging should be easy to reuse (Reuse) or easy to recycle (Recycle). Through repeated use, or through the recovery of waste, production of recycled products, incineration and heat energy, and composting to improve the soil and other measures to achieve the purpose of recycling.
3 Packaging waste can be degraded (Degradable). In order not to form permanent waste, non-recyclable packaging waste should be able to decompose, and then achieve the purpose of improving the soil.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Degradable are the 3R1D principles recognized by the world today for the development of green packaging.
4 Packaging materials should be non-toxic and harmless to humans and organisms. The packaging material should not contain toxic elements, halogens, heavy metals, or the content should be controlled below the relevant standards.
5 The pollution of the environment should not be caused during the entire life cycle of the packaged product. That is to say, the packaging products shall not cause harm to the human body and the environment from the collection of raw materials, material processing, manufacturing of products, use of products, recycling of wastes, and the whole process of the final disposal.
(3) Definition of green packaging Through the above analysis, the green packaging can be defined as follows: it is harmless to the ecological environment and human health, can be reused and reused or degraded, and can promote the sustainable development of packaging. Packaging products must be comprehensively measured from the selection of raw materials, manufacturing, use, recycling and disposal of products to meet the requirements of ecological and environmental protection, and to maintain a virtuous circle in the natural ecosystem. It includes such contents as saving resources, energy, reducing quantity, easy recycling, avoiding or reducing the generation of waste, incinerating or degradable, etc. that have ecological and environmental protection requirements.
From the definition of green packaging, we can see that green packaging is an ideal packaging, that is, to achieve the unity of social and economic benefits. In terms of economics, in the short term, green packaging requires the least external costs. In the long run, the total cost of internal and external requirements is the least. In layman's terms, we must first consider environmental protection. At the same time, we must, in the long run, conserve resources and increase resource utilization, and ultimately seek the best combination of social and economic aspects.
Green Packaging will continue to give new implied meaning with the advancement of science and technology and the development of society. From this we can see that green packaging is a systematic project, a technological revolution in the packaging industry and a foundation for the future. In the future market competition, packaging that is conducive to the environment will survive and develop, and packaging that is harmful to the environment will be eliminated. This is the inevitable trend of packaging development.
2. Green packaging is the best choice for the coordinated development of packaging and the environment. (1) The development of green packaging is an important measure for the coordinated development of environmental resources and economy. Green packaging reflects the idea of ​​coordinated and sustainable development of environmental protection and economic development. The purpose of developing the packaging industry is to promote the development of the national economy and improve people's living standards. In other words, the purpose of developing the packaging industry is to benefit the people. If the development of the packaging industry pollutes the environment without treatment, this fundamentally violates the purpose of packaging production. Therefore, we must vigorously develop green packaging, resolutely abandon the traditional development concepts that have only focused on economic growth while ignoring resources and environmental protection, and choose sustainable development strategies coordinated by economy, society, population, resources, and the environment so as to maintain the national economy. Sustained, rapid and healthy development.
The average per capita arable land area in China is 43% of the world's per capita level, while the waste packaging boxes, bowls and bags left in farmland amount to several hundred thousand tons. In 1999, the national wastewater discharge amounted to 40.11 billion tons, of which 19.73 billion tons were industrial wastewater, and a considerable part was the discharge volume of the packaging production process. In 1999, the amount of industrial waste generated in the country was 780 million tons, of which a considerable portion was due to packaging waste. At present, there are more than 130 foaming tableware production lines in the country. The amount of foamed tableware is more than 10 billion, about 120,000 tons, and the volume is about 2 million cubic meters. White contaminants often block the river, killing fish and shrimp, and high foaming plastics can cover a Singapore for two years! All this has brought huge losses to the national economy. It can only be solved by developing green packaging.
The development of green packaging can save a lot of energy and materials. From 1990 to 1997, China's commercial, supply and marketing cooperatives and other departments recovered more than 1.6 million tons of cardboard boxes, and all kinds of wooden boxes were equivalent to 1.1 million cubic meters of wood, as well as various iron barrels and glass bottles. Cans, sacks, etc., with a total value of more than 400 million yuan. Now people can use thermal chemical cracking to chemically recycle waste plastics into pyrolysis and catalytic cracking into oil and natural gas. The plastics can be recycled in a comprehensive way, so that 10% to 15% of the energy can be created. Waste paper can be recycled into recycled packaging. Industrial supplies such as methane and alcohol can recycle 800 kilograms of new paper for recycling 1 ton of waste paper. This saves 4 cubic meters of wood, 400 kilograms of soda ash, 400 kilograms of standard coal, 5000 degrees of electricity, and 4,700 tons of water. Green packaging calls for new technologies to create a new situation of sustainable development.
(2) It is beneficial to promote the improvement of packaging technology content and enhance overall strength. As green packaging requires products to meet the green environmental protection thinking from design, material selection, production, sales, service, recycling, etc., therefore, design capabilities, production technologies, Product quality, etc. must be generally improved, thereby promoting the improvement of technological content, improving competitiveness, and driving the growth of technological progress and the enhancement of comprehensive strength. For example, the development of pollution-free packaging materials (degradable and renewable); the development of non-polluting processes and pollution-free packaging products; the development of new material testing methods and the development of corresponding standards; the study of material recycling and recycling technologies and composting technologies The use of new packaging material processing and printing of packaging machinery research; packaging legislation, recycling of various procedures of management, training and education of high-quality green packaging design and management personnel, involving packaging structure design, packaging materials, packaging testing , packaging machinery, packaging technology, packaging management, packaging and decoration printing, packaging education, and other aspects, which led to the entire packaging industry, the concept of major changes and technological revolution, promote the overall level of the packaging industry to improve and enhance the overall strength.
(3) Helping to strengthen international trade and reduce losses Green packaging represents the development trend of packaging industry in various countries, which is conducive to strengthening international trade and reducing losses. Due to the rise of green consumption in various countries in the world, green goods have swept the world. As a result, the commodity structure of international trade has undergone great changes. Green products have almost covered international trade commodities, and green goods have corresponding green packaging facilities. Green packaging, who will be able to stand up in international trade, win the initiative and win the market, the packaging without the green flag is increasingly difficult to enter the international market. If a product is sent to the domestic market in Germany, the green label must be printed on the packaging. Domestic and foreign manufacturers must use this mark before they can pass the application. Such as the British "Ilford" black and white film packaging printed on this mark, is very popular in Germany. In July 1993, the European Community officially launched the European "Environmental Mark" and was recognized within the European Community.
(4) It is beneficial to adjust the structure of the packaging industry and promote intensive production. The development of green packaging objectively requires technological upgrading and adjustment of industrial structure to meet the needs of developing green packaging. In the past, development only focused on expansion in terms of quantity and speed. It did not pay attention to the intensification of intrinsic intensification and created a large number of SMEs. These enterprises have low technological standards, poor management, and generally low levels of production personnel's culture. They have no idea about the development of coordination with environmental resources and natural conditions. Therefore, on the one hand, random exploitation of limited environmental resources and natural causes Lack of resources and environmental pollution; on the other hand, due to low scientific and technological content, poor degree of intensification, high prices of products produced, and high energy consumption, limited natural resources have not been fully utilized, resulting in great The waste and further pollute the environment. Therefore, the development of green packaging is to shut down and transfer a group of small and medium-sized enterprises with high consumption, low efficiency, and serious pollution, adjust the industrial structure, optimize the industrial structure, and feature high input, high consumption, low efficiency, and high pollution. The traditional, development model of quantity, quantity, and extensive type has shifted to low investment, low consumption, high efficiency, low pollution, or no pollution, and the development model of connotation, quality, and intensive has pushed the industrial structure to a high degree of processing. And high-tech transformation.
(5) It is conducive to optimizing the production structure, promoting clean production and developing green packaging, and reducing pollution. We must vigorously advocate cleaner production. The implementation of cleaner production requires product design, raw material selection, process improvement, and the scientific and rationalization of the entire process of internal recycling of the production process, so as to minimize the waste generated by industrial production. Therefore, it is conducive to scientific planning and organization
Green Packaging - The Best Way to Coordinate the Development of Packaging Industry and Environmental Protection (1)
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