Green Packaging - The Future of Packaging Industry (II)

3. Insufficient investment in capital, technology, talent, etc.

Due to the adoption of advanced technology and limited by the production scale of enterprises, green packaging products are often more expensive than traditional packaging products, and therefore do not have price advantages when competing with traditional packaging products. This directly led to the disadvantage of green packaging products in the market competition, which seriously affected the confidence of enterprises in developing green packaging. Green packaging is supported by high technology. Due to the lack of investment in and research on green packaging technology, China’s overall technology level is still lagging although it has an international leading level in some products. In addition, China’s shortage of talents in green packaging, especially the lack of management talents, has severely restricted the development of green packaging.

4. Insufficient green consumption

Whether the packaging industry can embark on the sustainable development of the green packaging road relies on the regulation and guidance of the market, and China's green consumption started late, far from becoming people's consumption habits. In the country's major cities, small and medium-sized cities and rural market towns are still "white" hard to ban, "green" difficult to rise. At present, the annual output of domestic green tableware is about 6 billion, of which 80% of the products are exported, mainly to Japan, the United States, Singapore, etc. Another 20% of the domestic sales for the iron and shipping systems, in the fast food industry is difficult to promote. Due to the shortage of export supply, and the serious shortage of domestic market demand (consumption), many green packaging companies only care about the foreign market and ignore the domestic market.

The Strategy of Developing Green Packaging in China

The development of green packaging is not merely to reduce "white pollution". In essence, it is a major event to improve human life, maintain human health and promote ecological balance. The government and the broad masses of the people should join hands to promote the development of green packaging from the following aspects.

1. The state should provide support from policies and funds

Green packaging industry as a new industry. In our country, the majority of products have not yet become large-scale production. In terms of quantity and quality, they cannot meet the green consumer demand of the vast majority of consumers, and there is no brand effect. At present, relevant government departments should seize the opportunity, adjust the economic structure, actively promote mergers and reorganizations of enterprises, promote the rational allocation of resources, achieve large-scale production of green packaging, increase the development of green packaging in terms of structure and total volume, and strive to meet the market. Increasing demand for green consumption. The government must increase incentives for green packaging manufacturers to provide policy tilts in project approval, market access, taxation, and credit. Such as the reduction of taxes on green packaging products; the establishment of special funds to increase financial input to enterprises, appropriate scientific research and development costs for industry-based key scientific research and development projects; increase the scale of credit for enterprises, give discount interest discounts on raw materials and finished products Exports, giving preferential tariffs and quotas; support for companies listed on the stock market, to create conditions for their absorption of social investment; actively promote product green signs, the establishment of packaging products recycling management system and waste disposal system.

2. Actively develop and promote green packaging materials

Accelerating technological innovation and developing new packaging materials, new processes and new products are the key to the development of green packaging. From the beginning of the packaging design selection, we should pay attention to the reduction of packaging and try to avoid excessive packaging; pay attention to the recycling of packaging, pay attention to the use of packaging materials that can be used multiple times or can be recycled; pay attention to the harmlessness of packaging, try to use harmless Materials, do not use packaging materials that are likely to cause environmental pollution; actively promote the use of alternative materials such as paper and degradable plastics; invest funds in the development of plant packaging materials; use as much as possible a single packaging material and avoid the use of adhesive methods that lead to recycling and separation. difficult.

3. Promote green consumption and create a good market atmosphere for green packaging

Consumers who are directly responsible for the production of packaging waste must establish values ​​and consumption concepts that are compatible with the environment, voluntarily choose lifestyles and consumption patterns that are conducive to environmental protection, and promote the greenization of commodity packaging. When people buy goods, they must not only pay attention to whether the quality of the goods is qualified, whether the packaging is exquisite, but also whether the goods meet the requirements of environmental protection and whether there is a green logo on the packaging. Only in this way can manufacturers be encouraged to adopt green packaging and green marketing to cater to consumer psychology and promote product sales. At the same time, through the role of the media, we can increase the education of green consumption and guide the public to actively participate in the green consumption movement.

4. Strengthen recycling and reuse, and realize ecological recycling of packaging waste through various means such as legislation and economy

    German law clearly stipulates that since July 1, 1995, the recycling rate of packaging materials such as glass, tinplate, aluminum, cardboard, and plastic must reach 80%. The United Kingdom provides for the recycling of 60% of industrial packaging and 35% of household packaging at the beginning of the 21st century. While China is formulating corresponding laws and regulations as soon as possible to enforce the recycling of packaging waste, it can also implement taxation policies for garbage in large and medium-sized cities, charging according to the quantity of garbage that is dumped, and the public can put packaging waste into the recycling bin for free. At the same time packaging waste that affects the environment should be subject to packaging tax.

Experts point out that in the next year, “green products” will dominate the world market. Actively developing green packaging is an inevitable choice for China's packaging industry to face the WTO in the new century. We look forward to the true color of green in the new century. Green packaging has truly become the future of the packaging industry.