2010 held in Beijing International Packaging and Environment Standardization Conference, some experts pointed out that half of China's urban waste is packaging waste. So, what kind of packaging regarded as excessive packaging? This country and internationally, can have measurable standards? May 28, "Environment and Life" reporter interviewed the China Export Commodities Packaging Research Institute (CEPI), director of science and technology research and standardization Wangyuan De.

    Green packaging focused on "reduction"

    Wangyuan De Director to "Environment and Life" reporters, China's national standard, "Packaging and Environmental Terminology" (GB23156-2010), "Packaging and Packaging Waste" (GB/T16716) and the "limit excessive packaging requirements" (GB23350- 2009), are made Wangyuan De where the Chinese Export Commodities Packaging Research Institute is responsible for drafting. In 1987, the United Nations Commission on Environment and Development and its waste packaging based environmental hazards, urged countries to adopt "green packaging." Green packaging refers to the ecological environment and human health harmless, readily biodegradable, renewable and an environmentally friendly reusable packaging. "Packaging reduction" is the first principle of green packaging, ie packaging to meet the various functions under the premise of minimizing the use of packaging materials. This is from the source to reduce resource consumption and the amount of packaging waste.

    "Packaging and Packaging Waste" standard clear packing basic functions: to resist vibration, compression, moisture, light, oxidation, microorganisms, hazardous substances, harmful gases and other factors, to protect the product from damage and consumption. Is simply one word - care. As a principal drafter of the national standard, Wang said, whether for food, drugs, cosmetics, or work necessary appliances and daily necessities of life, "guard products" are to measure the competence of the minimum package elements.

    However, some manufacturers keen to engage in excessive packaging, is to use the excess amount of material needed and functional packaging layers to exaggerate the size, value and "looks" to entice consumers Maiduhaizhu. Wang introduced legislation in many countries of the excessive packaging characterized as fraud: If packaging of imported goods relative to the built-in product volume is too large, or the packaging design pattern is inconsistent with the content, it will be deemed fraudulent tendencies. "For example, some gift boxes of food, obviously only four small boxes nutrition, we seek it distributed into two packets, and then plastic bags, small cartons, foam, fill in the blank, and then put on a beautifully printed outside The large box. product packaging sizes less than 1/100, certainly if the outlet is limited. "

Packaging ratio of iron threshold

    For food and cosmetics, our national standard "limit excessive packaging requirements" also provides a clear mandatory targets - packaging ratio, that is, merchandise sales package unnecessary space volume accounted for the proportion of the total volume of packaging. This Road "iron threshold" requirement, pastries packaging ratio capped at 60%, beverages and wine shall not exceed 55% of health care products and cosmetics should not exceed 50%. Meanwhile, this small but returned to the standard quantity of contents open "special channel": For single net content of more than 30 ml or 30 grams but not more than 50 ml (or g) the contents, packaging ratio capped at 60%; while the single piece of net content not exceeding 30 ml or 30 g of the contents, the packaging ratio capped at 75%.

    Reporters learned that the re-use and treatment resources, is to reduce the total amount of packaging waste terminal two ace. Unlike our over-reliance on disposable packaging, the EU reusable packaging soft spot. From the transport packaging of plastic pallets, crates to the food and beverage glass containers are widely used in the EU. The actual situation in the United States roughly the same as with the EU. According to him, the global annual production of about 300 million tons of pulp, of which nearly 1/3 are made from recycled paper production; 2006 EU waste fuels with a record output value reached 20 billion euros.

    A plastic broom, online retailer Amazon even with such a big cardboard box to package, which is also regarded as excessive packaging American friends.

    Packaging blocked two of getting money into the enterprise

    Wang believes that as China's per capita resources are scarce, therefore packing material such that it should receive the fullest possible use of sustainable biomass feedstock instead of inorganic materials, which is currently developed countries, the development of new packaging materials and packaging materials, the main direction of the auxiliary. Such as general transport packaging materials, if the use sawdust, rice straw, wheat straw and other crushed, sieved powder instead of plastic products in the calcium carbonate filler, not only can improve the performance of packaging materials, but also increased its net calorific value, to make renewable using more calories.

    Wangyuan De Director also introduced many developed countries in order to ensure product quality grounds, to develop some technical "iron threshold" as the best means of limiting imports, namely technical barriers to trade (TBT). China each year, 20% of companies will be affected by problems because of the packaging to export performance. In this regard, he believes that we need in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the historical experience of the EU and the U.S., combined with national conditions, practice has proved to gradually accept scientific conclusions, and gradually establish and adapt to the global economy and developed a comparable level of technical regulations and standardization system. . "