As the export commodities must adopt the green packaging and the rise of the domestic environmental protection cause, with the support of the government, the rapid development of China's green packaging industry. The use of environmentally-friendly packaging materials is increasing, market share is gradually increasing, technology content is also increasing, some products have reached the international advanced level, have a better market in the international market, the market of the green packaging industry is constantly expand. However, compared with developed countries, China's green packaging industry still lags far behind, and development is not fast enough.
1. The concept of green packaging is blurred
In many people's minds, green packaging is often regarded as greening of packaging products. It is erroneously regarded packaging products made of easily degradable materials as green packaging, regardless of whether the production of packaging products causes environmental pollution and waste of resources. It does not matter whether the packaged product can be reused after use. 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 is considered to be toxic, and paper-based plastic molding should be fully implemented. In fact, the impact of packaging on the environment should be considered from the entire life cycle of the product. For example, improper recycling of paper packaging does not meet the requirements of green packaging, and plastic packaging should be promoted if it is reduced, recycled, and harmless. Plastics have the advantage that other packaging materials cannot be replaced, and a total ban on plastics will cause greater pollution. China's forest resources are limited, and the pollution caused by papermaking is also difficult to control. Therefore, it is neither realistic nor environmentally friendly to fully implement paper-based modeling.
2. unbalanced development
The time for different companies to implement green packaging is not synchronized. The earliest implementation of green packaging was export-oriented enterprises. Such enterprises were affected by the international market and learned about green packaging earlier. They quickly adjusted their packaging strategy; while those with a domestic market focused on green packaging. The response was slow, and it only started to get involved in green packaging in recent years. Secondly, the development between regions is uneven, and the green packaging in the economically developed regions has developed rapidly. The green packaging in the central and western regions where the economy is relatively backward has not received sufficient attention and publicity. The development is slow. In the treatment of packaging waste, local policies and laws are also inconsistent, resulting in the transfer of packaging pollution to economically underdeveloped areas.
3. Insufficient investment in capital, technology, talent, etc.
Due to the adoption of advanced technology and limited by the production scale of enterprises, green packaging products are often more expensive than traditional packaging products, and therefore do not have price advantages when competing with traditional packaging products. This directly led to the disadvantage of green packaging products in the market competition, which seriously affected the confidence of enterprises in developing green packaging. Green packaging is supported by high technology. Due to the lack of investment in and research on green packaging technology, China’s overall technology level is still lagging although it has an international leading level in some products. China's scarce talents in green packaging, especially the lack of management talents have severely restricted the development of green packaging.
4. Insufficient green consumption
Whether the packaging industry can embark on the sustainable development of the green packaging road relies on the regulation and guidance of the market, and China's green consumption started late, far from becoming people's consumption habits. In large and medium-sized cities and rural market towns across the country, the "white" is hard to ban, and green is "hard to make". At present, the annual output of domestic green tableware is about 6 billion, of which 80% of the products are exported, mainly to Japan, the United States, Singapore, etc. Another 20% of the domestic sales for the iron and shipping systems, in the fast food industry is difficult to promote. Due to the shortage of export supply, and the serious shortage of domestic market demand (consumption), many green packaging companies only care about the foreign market and ignore the domestic market.
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