In recent years, the rapid development of China's packaging industry, the use of more and more environmentally friendly packaging materials, market share has gradually increased, the technical content is getting higher and higher, some products have reached the international advanced level, in the international market has a better market. However, relevant people believe that there is still a certain one-sidedness in the development of China's green packaging.
In many people's minds, green packaging is often regarded as one-sided understanding of the environmental protection of packaging products. Wrongly, packaging products made of environmentally-friendly and easily degradable materials are regarded as green packaging, regardless of whether the packaging products are produced during the production process. Cause environmental pollution and waste of resources, do not ask the reuse of packaging products after use. For example, many people regard paper packaging as a green packaging, and put plastic packaging on the opposite side of green packaging. Some people even think that polyvinyl chloride is toxic, and it is fully implementing paper-based plastic molding.
In fact, we should consider the impact of packaging on the environment from the entire life cycle of the product. Paper packaging may not meet the requirements of green packaging if it is improperly recycled, and plastic packaging should be promoted if it achieves the goals of reduction, recycling, and harmlessness. In fact, 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 it is difficult to control the pollution problems caused by the use of raw materials. It is neither practical nor environmentally friendly to implement paper-based plastics. At present, even in the strict implementation of green packaging packaging materials, the main measure to reduce the impact of plastic on the environment is to enhance recycling, rather than a total ban. Therefore, at present, many important aspects of China's green packaging, such as the reduction of packaging materials, recycling and reuse of packaging waste, have not received corresponding attention, and the related green packaging industry is also underdeveloped.
In addition, the development of China's green packaging industry is also very uneven. First, the time for different companies to implement green packaging is not synchronized. The earliest implementation of green packaging was mostly export-oriented enterprises. Such enterprises were affected by the international market and learned about green packaging earlier. They quickly adjusted their packaging strategies. Enterprises that rely mainly on the domestic market are slow to respond to green packaging. In recent years, they have only begun to engage in green packaging. Secondly, the regional development is not balanced, and the green packaging in the economically developed areas is developing rapidly. However, the green packaging in the central and western regions where the economy is relatively backward has not received enough attention and development has been slow. In addition, in the treatment of packaging waste, local policies and regulations are also inconsistent, resulting in the transfer of packaging pollution to economically underdeveloped areas.
Therefore, in order to ensure the sustainable development of China's national economy, relevant parties in the country should pay close attention to the production of green packaging and the introduction of corresponding standards and policies. Enterprises should also take a long-term perspective and step up the production and research and development of green packaging products. More importantly, we must let people really understand the meaning of green packaging and let green packaging go deep into people's hearts.