Understanding green packaging should not be one-sided

In recent years, more and more environmentally friendly packaging materials have been used, the market share has gradually increased, the technology content has become higher and higher, and some products have reached the international advanced level. However, relevant people believe that there is still one-sidedness in the development of green packaging in China.
One-sided understanding of the concept of green packaging In many people's minds, green packaging is often one-sidedly understood as the greening of packaging products, and packaging products made from easily degradable materials are erroneously treated as green packaging, regardless of the packaging product. Whether production leads to environmental pollution and waste of resources, as well as the reuse of packaging products after use, there has been some misunderstanding of green packaging. If the paper packaging is regarded as a green packaging, the plastic packaging is placed on the opposite side of the green packaging, and even the polyethylene poisoning theory is proposed and the slogan of paper-based plastic molding is fully implemented.
In fact, green packaging considers the environmental impact of packaging from the entire life cycle of the product. Paper packaging does not meet the requirements of green packaging if it is improperly recycled, and plastic packaging, if it achieves the goals of reduction and recycling, is promoted by green packaging.
â—† Regardless of the national conditions, the use of paper-based plastics has the advantage that other packaging materials cannot be replaced. A total ban on plastics will cause greater packaging pollution. China's forest resources are limited, and the pollution problems of other raw materials for papermaking are also difficult to control. It is neither realistic nor environmentally friendly to implement paper-based plastics. Moreover, even in developed countries that strictly implement green packaging, plastics are also the most rapidly growing packaging materials. The main measure to reduce the environmental impact of plastics is to strengthen recycling control rather than unilaterally prohibiting it. Therefore, at present, many important aspects of China's green packaging, such as the reduction of packaging materials, the recycling and recycling of packaging waste, have not received corresponding attention. The related green packaging industry is also very underdeveloped, especially The recycling industry for packaging waste is still lagging behind.
â—† Unbalanced development of different companies in different regions First of all, the time for different companies to implement green packaging is not synchronized, and the earliest green packaging companies are export-oriented enterprises. Such companies are influenced by the international market and have a better understanding of green packaging. They have quickly adjusted their packaging strategies. The response to green packaging by companies based primarily on the domestic market is relatively slow. In recent years, they have only begun to engage in green packaging. Secondly, the development of the regions is uneven, and the green packaging in the economically developed regions has developed rapidly. In the central and western regions where the economy is relatively backward, the green packaging has not received sufficient attention and publicity, and the development is slow.