Discussion on Green Packaging and Active Packaging (I)

With the rapid development of China's economy, the packaging industry has also developed rapidly. It can be said that the prosperity of the commodity economy cannot be separated from the development of the packaging industry.

However, with the progress of urbanization in China, the phenomenon of “garbage against the city” has become more and more serious. Garbage is found everywhere along roads, streets, along railway lines, enterprises, and tourist attractions. The rubbish piles up like mountains, mostly for packaging waste. A lot of garbage is dumped on the outskirts of the city, occupying more and more land and causing pollution to the environment. On the one hand, the packaging industry has made great contributions to economic development; on the other hand, it has also caused pollution to the environment. Because nearly half of the waste materials are packaging materials, many are difficult to rot and recycled. In addition, many packaging materials release a large amount of chlorine, fluorine, hydrocarbons, and other gases during the production process, destroying the ozone layer and causing a greenhouse effect.

1 Green packaging

With the deepening of human use of nature and the transformation of natural activities, human activities have an increasingly greater impact on the environment. The consumption of resources and the emission of waste exceed the regenerative capabilities and self-purification capabilities of the earth. The resources of the earth are becoming increasingly scarce. Increased environmental pollution and ecological destruction. In order to protect human common homes, the call for attention and development of green packaging is increasing. Green packaging means that during the entire product life cycle, it is harmless to the ecological environment and human health. It can be recycled and recycled, and it can promote proper packaging for sustainable development. Green packaging must comply with the principle of "4R1D" and should generally have five aspects: the reduction of packaging, the ease of reuse, the ease of recovery, and the ease of recycling . By means of recycling, recovery, purification, and other means of reuse, the purpose of reuse is achieved through production of recycled products, incineration of heat energy, composting of soil, and other measures. Finally, packaging waste can be degradable, and it does not eventually form permanent waste.

1.1 Main Ways to Achieve Green Packaging 1.1.1 Promoting the Use and Encouragement of Research and Development The green packaging of green materials is the development direction of the packaging industry. To achieve a long-term and long-term goal for green packaging, we must start from the source and use green packaging materials as much as possible. Materials, common green materials include biodegradable plastics, paper, bamboo, glass, metals, edible materials, etc. These are traditional packaging materials. With the development of high technology, many countries have developed a number of new types of green packaging materials. For example, the United States uses soybean protein, added enzymes and other processing agents to make soybean protein packaging film for food packaging, can maintain good moisture, prevent the entry of oxygen, and can be cooked together with food. China has also developed a biodegradable plastic PHB (polyalkylene carbonate).

1.1.2 Focus on Recycling, Reuse, and Recycling of Packaging Materials

Reusable packaging can save resources, such as the implementation of beer, beverages, soy sauce, vinegar and other packaging using glass bottles, repeated use. The PET bottles and PC bottles popular in some European countries can be reused more than 20 times.

1.1.3 Conduct green engineering education and cultivate citizens' environmental awareness

Vigorously publicizing the environmental protection significance of green packaging and protecting the environment are obligations that every citizen should fulfill, constantly raising people's awareness of environmental protection and benefiting the ideological realm of generations. Designers must investigate the specific requirements of the international market for environmentally friendly packaging, such as regulations on environmentally friendly packaging in the importing country, consumer awareness of environmental protection, green organization activities, and development trends in environmental packaging, in order to fully consider these factors in the packaging design. In addition, in the packaging design should also consider highlighting the signs of environmental marketing, to represent a particular product on the environmental quality in order to obtain the goodwill of consumers to achieve the purpose of expanding marketing. Through education and guidance, the concept of green consumption of consumers is enhanced, the atmosphere of the green packaging market is created, and green technologies and green industries are continuously developed.

1.1.4 Actively implement relevant regulations and standards, and tilt the policy towards green packaging

Actively guide enterprises to develop, produce and use green packaging materials, and give certain preferential policies to impose certain penalties for violations. The government must increase incentives for green packaging companies to give policy tilt in project approval, market access, taxation, and credit. Many countries restrict or impose mandatory supervision and management on the packaging materials of imported goods in the form of laws and regulations. Only packaging materials for export goods meet the requirements of the importing country before they can be allowed to enter the importing country. Otherwise, the customs of the importing country will not release. According to the ISO14000 environmental management system international standards, any country that does not comply with this standard can refuse to import, so that products that do not meet the standards are excluded from international trade. There are few types of environmental labeling products in China and it is far from meeting the needs of foreign trade development. Only by following this international trend and adopting active and effective means to catch up can we fundamentally protect our country’s foreign trade interests.