Can Food Paper Packaging Achieve Green Packaging In The Future?
With the rapid development of economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, food paper packaging plays an increasingly important role in the national economy. At the same time, the environmental pollution and ecological environment damage caused by food paper packaging are becoming increasingly serious. Packaging waste is an important part of solid waste, people are more and more aware of its harm to the environment, so green packaging has become the direction of packaging research and development.
The so-called green packaging refers to the commodity packaging which is conducive to the protection of human health and ecological environment. Green packaging is the circular economy in the field of packaging, which is the application and embodiment of the concept of circular economy in the field of packaging. Specifically, green packaging generally has six connotations
1、 Carry out packaging reduction.
The use of packaging materials should be reduced as far as possible under the condition of meeting the functions of protection, convenience and sales;
2、 Packaging should be easy to reuse.
After completing a certain function, the package can be reused after proper treatment;
3、 Easy to recycle.
Through the production of products, incineration of heat energy, composting to improve the soil and other measures to achieve the purpose of reuse;
4、 It can be used for recycling.
Cans, bottles and other packaging materials can be used after recycling;
5、 Packaging waste can be degraded and decomposed.
Packaging waste can be degraded and decomposed, and it will not form garbage in the end, so as to improve the soil;
6、 Packaging materials should be harmless to human body and environment.
Packaging materials should not contain toxic elements, bacteria and heavy metals, or the content of these should be controlled below the relevant standards; the whole process of packaging products from raw material collection, material processing, product manufacturing, product use, waste recovery to its final treatment should not cause harm to human body and the environment.
