Singing "green" packaging

In today's world, "green" has become the main theme of the harmonious development of human society. Packaging, as an indispensable commodity for human social life, must be coordinated with the requirement of “green” in the use of materials and the protection of the environment while completing its three basic functions: protection, convenience, and sales. The prerequisite for sustainable development of packaging. The main theme of packaging to sing the tone of "green" is the trend of the development of the world packaging industry, "prosperous and invincible," which is also the trend of China's packaging industry must be clear.

The function of the package is to have a shell that matches its content when the product is transported and sold. This requires that the package not only has a good technical design to reflect the complete quality of the product, but also has a good visual design effect to ensure the best-selling product. When the product is put into use, most of the packaging is often thrown away. Today, the honesty relationship between production and consumption that we live in the commercial society has been broken. A large number of fake and inferior commodities have been swept through the market by virtue of their relatively low price to imitate the packaging of high-quality goods. This satisfies some consumers' low-grade consumer desires. However, in the long run, it has weakened or even destroyed the prospect of economic prosperity. As a kind of creation that has a wide influence on human life, packaging design, if fully and correctly exerting its potential, can prevent or reduce the drawbacks that have emerged; on the contrary, it may aggravate these conflicts. Faced with such a real problem, packaging designers and businesses are shouldering the responsibility of social responsibility.

In order to prevent man-made destruction of “self-destruction homes” in the natural world, in addition to using reusable packaging, packaging should work hard to conceive of the use of pure natural materials to revolutionize the packaging and enable it to integrate into the great cycle of the ecosystem. Among them. Nature's ecosystem is constantly carrying out the metabolism of matter and energy; once this cycle is out of balance or even destroyed, then the life on Earth will not be far away. Therefore, "green" packaging is not only an aesthetic issue, but also a major issue that has a lot to do with human survival. If packaging can be incorporated into the cycle of a large ecosystem, taken from nature and returned to nature, the opportunity for re-use or re-growth can be obtained; instead of being forced on nature and in the form of garbage Return to nature?;?; Humans can prevent the recurrence of the "self-destruction homeland" tragedy. As far as packaging is concerned, this idea of ​​pursuing a coexistence with nature and environmental affinity should become a sacred mission for the packaging industry to become conscious and a natural law to follow when designing packaging.

Although the concept of ecological protection has been vigorously promoted and widely known, the environmental protection awareness of packaging has always been implemented, but it depends on the unremitting efforts of businesses and citizens. Green packaging, from the acquisition of materials to processing into products, each link must be carefully considered. In the initial stage, there will undoubtedly occupy more funds, increase product costs, and make enterprises face certain risks. "If you want to be poor, go further." In the long run, with the increasing awareness of environmental protection in the entire society, green goods and their packaging will undoubtedly become consumers' first choice products, which will play an active role in the development of the company, because the life of the company lies in the public’s consumption behavior and desires. . In the path that embodies hope and success, the real sense of green packaging can be described as a long way to go.

Author/Lian Lu Source: "China Packaging Industry"