The public, Mr. Wang, had been struggling to clean up the houses in the past few days. Facing the pile of tea boxes, health products boxes, and white wine boxes that looked very beautiful and high-grade, they were helpless. These packaging products had already become “chicken ribs.†It is a pity that the land is occupied. With the Spring Festival of the New Year approaching, to see supermarkets, shopping centers that a dazzling array of luxury goods, all kinds of goods, Mr. Wang raised the question in his mind: Who will be on the road for luxury packaging "lock"?
Luxury packaging intensifies
A large green paper box, containing an antique wooden box, opened the small lock on the wooden box, saw only a yellow silk cloth, there are two beautiful green iron box, open the tin box, see a vacuum packaging Bag, vacuum bag is what we really want: a few hundred grams of tea.
When the market place more and more emphasis on packaging, people were surprised to find that packaging went to the other extreme, and excessive packaging became more and more rampant. Not just tea packaging, some health products and gift packaging are more “luxuryâ€. In the past few days, reporters saw in some shopping malls, supermarkets, and farmers' markets that some of the so-called "big gift packs" were very large in volume and had many consumables, but they opened up layers of packaging, and there was only a small amount of real things inside. The owner of a small grocery store told reporters that the current year is a year-round luxury package.
The National People's Congress of the National Environment and Resources Commission of the National People's Congress investigated the excessive packaging of moon cakes in our province this year. It was found that many moon cakes are too bulky and consumables are used. Most of the materials are difficult to recover after one-off consumption. Some moon cakes sell for more than 3,000 yuan, but the real value of moon cakes is only one hundred yuan, and the remaining value is packaged goods and tying goods.
Luxury packaging is getting more and more intense because manufacturers are profitable. Some people have calculated that the same quality of tea, no packaging price of 10 yuan. But with a good package, the cost is no more than 20 yuan, and tea is worth ten times and can be sold for hundreds of yuan. As a result, many manufacturers have spent a lot of resources to produce various types of luxury disposable packaging. Such as wine packaging only bottles, there are glass, ceramic, crystal, and some wine bottles but also use the key to open. Some wines are more luxuriously packaged. There is a wide variety of bottle caps, and you have to make every effort to open them.
What is the danger of luxury packaging?
How big is the luxury packaging hazard? According to statistics from related departments, paper packaging for everyday life such as cigarette cases, wine boxes, hat boxes, shoe boxes, shirt boxes, food boxes, and gift boxes, etc., these paper textures with excellent texture and appearance are mostly opened. After being abandoned, China's one-year-old abandoned packaging box equivalent to 200 million tons of waste paper, and 1 ton of waste paper consumables equivalent to 4 cubic meters of wood, packaging waste of wood can be imagined. In order to meet the demand of some packaging manufacturers for wood, many people have taken the risks, deforested and destroyed the forest. In 2003 alone, there were 2082 enterprises in the province that had banned illegal processing and management of timber products.
The discarded packaging also produced a lot of garbage. According to a survey, 30% of urban waste is packaged goods that cannot be recycled, and a large part of it is manufactured by luxury packaging. A staff of a garbage disposal station in Nanchang told reporters that a large part of the rubbish he handles daily is a discarded luxury box. For example, some high-grade wine bottles, tin boxes, and plastic packaging cannot be degraded because they cannot be recycled. They can only be buried in Ground. Some plastics cannot be degraded in the ground for hundreds of years, causing serious environmental pollution.
Not only that, some luxury packaging only pays attention to the beauty of packaging, and does not consider the safety of packaging materials, thus causing consumers to endanger themselves. Liu Xingen, deputy secretary-general of the Provincial Packaging Technology Association, told reporters: Some manufacturers of packaging boxes, such as density fiberboard, paper, and printing inks, are not qualified for their own health and are used directly for wrapping foods, causing secondary pollution. Harm the health of consumers.
Let green packaging approach people
“The real good packaging is not luxury, but smart, safe, and fashionable.†Liu Xingen said: “At present, we strongly advocate the establishment of a scientific outlook on development and the establishment of a harmonious society. We should pay more attention to protecting the environment and prohibit excessive packaging on packaging. ."
How to prohibit the waste of luxury packaging? Relevant experts pointed out that first of all, we must, like Japan and Germany, enact legislation for luxury packaging, and set limits on the volume of packaging, the gap between packages and commodities, the number of packaging layers, and the ratio of packaging costs to commodity value. The phenomenon of excessive waste of packaging is prohibited by law and is a lock for luxury packaging. At the same time, we must establish a recycling channel for packaging products, recycle the packaging products multiple times, reduce waste, and impose heavy taxes on companies that cannot produce recycled packaging products, and urge them to choose what they can recycle. Less material waste of resources.
In the selection of materials, we can choose some materials that are renewable and have a short growth cycle depending on the situation in the country. The relevant research group of the Weinan Teachers’ College has conducted special investigations. In response to the characteristics of bamboo and bamboo growing fast in our province, it is recommended to use bamboo as raw material and to make packing boxes. This is not only beneficial to the protection of timber resources in our province, but also its design. New, eco-friendly and economical. Others pointed out that the use of plant stalks as raw materials, such as the use of bagasse, cotton stalks, etc. made of packaging boxes, both stylish and safe.
At the same time, in the concept of consumption, we must also further guide consumers to change the psychology of mutual comparisons, so that the people establish a green packaging concept of consumption, so that green packaging really go to society, approaching the people.