Economic circles talk about circular economy and green packaging

The packaging industry has become an important part of the national economy: but it is also an industry that consumes resources and pollutes the environment. The environmental pollution caused by packaging waste has seriously affected the sustainable development of the social economy. Therefore, effectively controlling the pollution of packaging waste, integrating packaging into the circular economy, and comprehensively promoting green packaging have become a public concern.

Green packaging, also known as environmentally-friendly packaging, refers to packaging that can not only give full play to various packaging functions, but also benefit the environment, reduce waste, and is easy to recycle and re-use or self-degrade. It includes the protection of the environment and the two aspects of resource regeneration, and generally has four connotations, namely: the most provincial materials, the least waste, and save resources and energy; easy recycling and recycling; waste combustion to generate new energy Produce secondary pollution; packaging materials are minimal and self-decomposing and do not pollute the environment.

China's development of circular economy, the government's responsibility is to promote legislation to support, the company's responsibility is to implement cleaner production, recycling production, the public's responsibility is to increase awareness of saving, change unreasonable consumer attitudes, but also give full play to the core of science and technology effect. Therefore, the promotion of green packaging is an important part of achieving a circular economy:

First, to actively promote the development of green packaging materials, it is necessary to further develop natural green packaging materials. The raw materials of natural green packaging materials are characterized by low environmental load, abundant resources, and cheap access. Full use of bamboo, sawdust, hemp, cotton fabrics, wicker, reeds, crops, straw, straw and wheat straw and other raw materials, expand the variety of packaging, improve technical content, 'is an important direction of ecological packaging. Secondly, we will focus on ecological packaging materials, ecologically transform traditional packaging, and examine the performance of design materials from the perspective of protecting resources and recycling resources to meet the requirements of green packaging. The development of degradable plastics is currently a hot spot in the scientific and technological community in various countries. According to the different manufacturing methods, biodegradable plastics can be divided into three types: microbial synthesis (bacterial plastics), chemical synthesis, and natural material utilization.

Second, advocate green consumption and create a good market atmosphere for green packaging. Green consumption has a certain market in China. According to a survey conducted by the China Social Survey Office, 72% of people believe that developing environmental protection industries and developing green products are beneficial to improving the environment; 54% are willing to use green products, and 38% People said they purchased green products.

Third, establish green enterprises and strengthen green management. The development and promotion of green packaging focuses on two aspects: First, green design, ie, the design of the core concepts of environmental protection, resource conservation, and recycling of resources; second, green manufacturing, ie, cleaner production. To strengthen green management, the first is to strengthen the management of "environmental signs" commodity certification, the second is to use legal means to force the recycling of packaging waste, and the third is to use economic means to promote the recycling of packaging waste.

Green packaging is an inevitable trend of sustainable development of the packaging industry in circular economy. The development of green packaging is a systematic project. It requires the joint efforts and cooperation of government departments, science and technology, industry, commerce and other departments to create a pollution-free or less polluting environment. ecosystem.

Source: Shenzhen Xinli Measurement Technology Co., Ltd.