The law finally says no to luxury packaging

“The waste packaging has already accounted for 30% of the municipal waste!” Mao Rubai, director of the National People's Congress Environment and Resources Commission, was surprised by this two years ago.

Before the arrival of the annual moon cake war, they finally saw the news that the draft "Circular Economy Law" was being considered. Among them, the legislation restricts "luxury packaging" among them.

Limiting excessive packaging by law is nothing new in foreign countries. Because of the legal constraints, the corresponding policies also have cooperation. In the United States, no plastic bags in the supermarket can be tax-deductible. I think that when our days were not so rich, it was a habit to wash the plastic bags in the home, and in the homes of wealthy people in the United States, because of laws and taxes, people often used up kraft paper bags. Use it next time.

I bought a cup with Beethoven's head in Germany and the salesman used paper to pack it. I asked if he had a box and said that he would bring it to China. The results were told that they only used paper packaging and asked me to rest assured that they would definitely allow me to take them home safely. In Venice, Italy, I bought a local tourist handicraft "character portrait". The clues and masked faces of the staff clasped the crafts. Even then, I just brought it back to China with only a few layers of paper. I asked, the entire market did not provide even a hard box, and chat with the salesperson to know that the box was not used by them as a packaging. Of course, the money I pay is only the price of crafts. I don't need to spend the euro for packaging.

In the United Kingdom, packaging is not luxurious but human. Envelope-enclosed teabags, some with the words "British afternoon tea," and others with a warm and innocent picture of infantry, are welcomed by women. The marketing manager of the Abbey biscuits factory in France said that they value the reduction of the packaging. After scientific calculations, the thickness of the two types of packaging boxes was reduced by 1/7 and 1/3, respectively. Last year, 46 tons of plastic raw materials were used less.

In China, because of lack of relevant legal restrictions, it is often another situation.

When shopping in the supermarket If you do not want plastic bags, the salesman will say: "Nothing."

What is the relationship between the waste of public resources and the salesperson? A plastic bag worth a few dollars? Over-packaging has become the “way of business” that some businesses value.

According to a survey conducted by the Shanghai Association of Sugar and Food Industry Professionals, the highest price of moon cake gift boxes in the Shanghai market has been rising year by year in recent years. It was 588 yuan/box in 2002, 688 yuan/box in 2003, and 1888 yuan/box in 2004. A market survey in 2006 found that the price of 300 yuan a bottle of white wine in a crystal bottle was 1900 yuan. A cosmetics counter salesman told reporters that foreign original imported cosmetics originally had no big gift box packaging. In order to cater to the needs of some customers, the company had to provide a special gift box. The production cost of each gift box was about 50 yuan. Moreover, luxury packaging products are not only conspicuous but also useful in advertisements of various media.

"Excessive packaging" and "luxury packaging" not only cause waste of resources, but also pollute the environment. Everyone knows. However, for many years, the problem of excessive packaging is not changed. Today, there are laws that can be followed, and the media can call this "luxury packaging." The "Circular Economy Law" draft stipulates that when designing product packaging, units and individuals must implement product packaging standards to prevent excessive packaging from causing waste of resources and environmental pollution. The product packaging standards shall be formulated by the department of standardization under the State Council in conjunction with relevant departments. Although the law is to solve the problem from the root, I think it is also important to regard the over-packed business ethics as shame. The stigma makes him become a "cross-street rat," and everyone is shouting. Is it another trick to catch up? Of course, this cannot be done with the cooperation of the media. If the "mouse" is hit hard, and over-packed goods are advertised, over-packaging is really difficult.