Ecological Protection and Green Packaging Design (I)

Introduction

With the development of the world packaging industry and the ever-increasing frequency of international trade, the pollution and destruction of packaging waste on the ecological environment has increasingly attracted the attention of governments of all countries. In order to protect its own ecological environment, countries around the world have passed legislation. The formulation of complex environmental protection conventions and laws and regulations to restrict the entry of goods from other countries is the so-called green trade barrier. With the appearance of a series of problems such as water shortage, drought, and global warming, the awareness of “green environmental protection” has also been increasingly accepted by people, and has gradually become a fashion proposition. Combining with people’s daily lives, people eat All kinds of articles used in clothing and clothing have incorporated environmental protection and pollution prevention into the selection. Based on this, packaging designers need to incorporate environmental protection thinking in the packaging design of their products. Health.

First, the impact of packaging waste on the ecological environment

1.1 The destruction of packaging waste on the natural environment of cities

The pollution caused by packaging waste to the city occupies a large share of the total pollution. Statistics show that the amount of packaging waste is about 1/3 of the volume of solid waste in urban areas and 1/2 of volume. China's urban solid waste accounts for 15% of its weight and 25% of its volume. Based on this, the implementation of green packaging is an inevitable trend of the overall development of the world packaging. Whoever first realizes this, will take the initiative and become an invincible position in the competition of the future world packaging market. [1]

1.2 Hazards to human health and loss of natural resources due to packaging waste

With the ever-increasing scale of the packaging industry, disposable plastic packaging materials have been widely used. Once portable plastic bags, disposable foam lunch boxes and other materials are discarded by people, they form a large amount of waste that is difficult to handle. The "white pollution" of railways, highways, streets and lanes is very serious, breeze blowing, packaging wastes such as packaging paper and plastics with various germs blowing in the wind, blowing various germs into millions of households, seriously endangering people's With good health, the high prevalence of respiratory diseases in the world has a lot to do with the massive discharge of solid waste. In order to ensure the health of all human beings, the world urgently calls for the development of green packaging. [2]

The waste and loss of natural resources caused by packaging waste is also a concern. How much resources were destroyed and destroyed in the United States when only packing materials were used? How many natural resources on Earth will be destroyed in one hundred countries and regions around the world? According to a careful report made by the Midwest Research Institute on the packaging industry during the period from 1958 to 1966, the annual consumption of packaging materials by the US population increased from 183 kg in 1958 to 238 kg in 1966, which cost the United States. The public was 25 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 3.4% of the country's total output value. Of the 23,503 tons of packaging materials in 1966, about 90% were solid packaging waste and garbage that were thrown away, of which 42% were packaging paper. If every tonne of waste paper can be reused, it can be used to supply 17 trees for papermaking raw materials. Based on this, protecting the clear blue water and green resources has become the common goal of human life pursuit.

Second, the significance of green packaging

Green packaging refers to a product that is harmless to the ecological environment and human health. It can be reused and recycled. It is consistent with sustainable development and can also be called ecological packaging. From a technical point of view, green packaging refers to an environment-friendly packaging that uses natural plants and related minerals as raw materials to make it harmless to the ecological environment and human health, is conducive to recycling, and is easy to degrade and sustainably develop. The packaging products from the choice of raw materials, product manufacturing to use and disposal of the entire life cycle, should meet the requirements of ecological and environmental protection, green packaging materials, packaging design and vigorous development of the green packaging industry to achieve green packaging.

The reason why the green packaging is of concern to the entire international community is because of the special complexity of environmental issues and pollution. The destruction of the environment has no national borders. The pollution of one country and the damage of neighboring countries not only endanger the survival of ordinary people and the health of society. The production of enterprises, the prosperity of the market, but also through various ways to trigger international disputes concerning natural resources. [3]

Third, the status of China's green packaging

China's packaging industry has grown from scratch in the past decade and has achieved remarkable achievements from small to large. However, there are still some gaps compared with the advanced countries in the world, especially the application of packaging technology and packaging equipment and packaging design patterns. Conceptual aspects. At present, on the issue of environmental protection packaging, packaging organizations around the world are actively working towards the requirements of international environmental organizations, such as the introduction of new environmental protection packaging ISO14000 standards and regulations. In contrast, China's environmental protection packaging has lagged behind, and the domestic production capacity of environmental protection packaging materials is still very low. The research on environmental protection packaging in China should focus on the practical application of environmental protection packaging.

Since the 1980s, “green food”, “green clothing”, “green refrigerator” and “green car” have created a massive green wave in the world. The per capita annual consumption of packaging materials is over 100kg in the United States, 50kg in the United States, 200kg in Japan, 90kg in Germany, 80kg in the Commonwealth of Independent States and 30kg in China, compared to the average annual per capita consumption of packaging materials in China, but China has a population of 1.3 billion, so the annual consumption of packaging materials is quite large. The issue of recycling and reuse of two-piece and three-piece cans in the processing of aluminum cans in China is still outstanding. China has not done enough in terms of green packaging design. Green packaging design needs more development in China. [4]