Packaging and Environmental Protection (I)

In recent years, with the urbanization of industrialized countries and rising levels of resident consumption, the growth of urban waste has been very rapid. The growth rate of garbage in developed countries is 3.2%-4.5%, and that of developing countries is 2%-3%. The annual global garbage production is about 10 billion tons, which is equivalent to 6 times of the world's total annual grain output. The environmental pollution caused by a large amount of garbage has become a worldwide problem. Therefore, garbage disposal has become a global hot topic accordingly, and related garbage disposal equipment and technologies are also of concern to people. In China, with the development of the economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, the production of solid waste is also increasing rapidly. At present, urban waste is increasing at a rate of 10% per year. It is predicted that in the next ten years, the production of urban waste will reach 150 million tons and the area will reach 60,000 hectares. For this reason, the problem of waste disposal and recycling has become a problem faced by the development of human society. So, how to solve this problem? From the point of view of many waste disposal methods abroad, the developed countries have come to the front. Through the following interesting stories, we can appreciate the importance of foreign countries in waste disposal and environmental protection.
Rubbish tickets: Providenciales in northwest Canada has a well-equipped modern swimming pool, where the spring season is the ideal place for people to relax. In order to do a good job in municipal sanitation, the authorities have stipulated that neither men nor women nor women nor men need to purchase tickets, but only need to pay a certain amount of garbage to enter the pool and hit the water. Therefore, the city is clean all the year round, even if there are sporadic garbage occasionally, it will also be "missing."
Garbage Watching Contest: The Italian environmental protection department often holds a "Garbage Watcher" contest. The content is to allow the contestants to display the photos of the junk they photographed on the spot. Which photos are the dirtiest and most chaotic, and which photos won the first prize. This approach exposes a large amount of garbage that is not stacked according to regulations and is processed accordingly.
Rubbish taxation: Italians pay 7 cents for each of the 7 billion plastic bags they purchase each year; the European Community also imposes environmental taxes on items that cause pollution, such as plastics and rust removers.
Clearing garbage on jail: The cleanup of rubbish on both sides of the U.S. highway is very laborious and dangerous. There has been a shortage of manpower. At the same time, the prison cell came up with an idea that prisoners of light sentences who have not served up to 120 days in prison could use junk on the highway instead of jail.
Garbage park: There is a garbage park in Florida, USA. The amusement equipment in the park is made of garbage as raw material. Its purpose is to warn people: in a beautiful environment, pay attention to the use of garbage.
Music bin: The Dutch health department designed a music bin. The rubbish bin has a sensor. When rubbish is dropped into the bin, the sensor should automatically start the recorder and play a beautiful song, story or joke. This kind of rubbish bin is very popular with people. Almost everyone prefers to run a few more steps and throw rubbish into the music bin.
Rubbish Monument: The city of Figaro in Italy is located on the Ligurian seashore, which is an ideal tourist destination with beautiful scenery and pleasant weather. After many tourists enjoy sunbathing and sea bathing, they throw various beverages and food waste in the sea, causing environmental pollution. The local government deliberately built a garbage monument here. The inscription stated: “Protect nature, and all the waste displayed here is from the sea.”
Rubbish Cinema: A Hendell Film Theatre was built in the UK and all building materials are from garbage. The hospital screen is made up of 38,000 pieces of waste white cloth, 2800 seats are all welded by 45,000 pieces of steel picked up, and the waiters wear strange clothes made of pure and scrap cloth. It tells people: how serious is the waste, "scrap" is not a waste!
Rubbish Museum: There is a rubbish museum in New Jersey, USA, and people walk into this museum displaying modern household waste products as if they were in a garbage dump. The surrounding walls are made of rubbish, and the ground and ceiling are full of rubbish. The museum, worth 400,000 U.S. dollars, tries to tell people that conscious consumers can drastically reduce the amount of rubbish they throw away at random. The fundamental solution to rubbish problems is to throw less rubbish.
The problem of waste disposal in foreign developed countries has not only been widely appreciated by people, but has also embarked on the path of legalization. This is a good trend. It has a great influence on the change of our ideology. It not only restricts litter from the legal point of view, but also uses examples to teach people how to understand the pollution of the environment and the importance of the environment for human survival. Make people act consciously and voluntarily join the waste recycling team to reduce urban waste and effectively protect the environment.
According to statistics, in developed countries, packaging waste accounts for about one-third of municipal solid waste in terms of weight, and about one-half in volume. China's packaging waste accounts for 15% of municipal solid waste in terms of weight. Therefore, the effective recycling and use of packaging waste can reduce the city's solid waste and its environmental pollution. As we all know, packaging plays an important role in protecting the goods, beautifying the goods, promoting the goods, and storing, selling, and using the goods. For most products, without packaging, it is not a commodity, but the packaging follows the commodity. After reaching the destination and product consumption, it will lose its function and most will become packaging waste.
In packaging enterprises above the county level in China, the packaging output has exceeded 15 million tons each year in recent years, and the annual output of packaging enterprises (including collective, individual, foreign-funded, and wholly-owned) below the county level exceeds 10 million tons. The output is about 30 million tons. The recycling of packaging products in China is better than that of beer bottles and plastic turnover boxes. The recovery rate of other products is quite low, and the recycling rate of the entire packaging products is still less than 20% of the total output of packaging products. If we press this calculation, there will be more than 25 million tons of packaging waste produced each year in China. If we do not manage this, after a few years, the space we live in will be surrounded by garbage. Therefore, it is an eternal theme to protect the environment, produce green packaging, and recycle packaging waste, and improve the recycling rate of packaging waste. (To be continued)