Study Waste Packaging Innovation (Part 2)

Green packaging is a fashionable term, but it is difficult for experts to define strict definitions, and it is difficult for authoritative organizations to determine which packaging is green. Because, even if the packaging is arbitrarily abandoned after use, it will also cause pollution. We advocate that green packaging mainly promotes packaging that is less harmful to the environment and humans and that is easy to recycle and handle.
Judgments and decisions based on general concepts and common sense environmental issues are often dangerous. Because people generally cannot see the entire life cycle of a product (or service). Only by examining the total impact on the environment in all aspects of the entire life cycle can the subjectivity and blindness of decision-making be avoided. In China, we should vigorously promote the life cycle analysis method.
The use of banned measures is the most severe measure. It is much more stringent than the mandatory recycling methods adopted by some developed countries. It means shutting down a group of enterprises, which means the disposal of a batch of equipment and the unemployment of a group of workers. A few years of practice should arouse our reflection. Is it wisest to adopt a ban?
The historical experience is worth learning. When floods occurred in the Xia Dynasty in China, the father's father used the method of “blocking” to treat the water. He failed and was executed. However, through the investigation and comparison, the "guide" approach was used to achieve success. This enlightens us: Is it more effective to increase recycling and disposal than simply disabling?
The effectiveness of the protection of the environment in developed countries is not banned by relying on the need to increase recovery and disposal. There is no banned clause in the German packaging law, which mainly stipulates the proportion of the responsible persons who collect and dispose of packaging waste and various packaging wastes. It has established a DSD company that is responsible for the recycling of packaging waste, and has established corporate payment and green implementation. Point sign system. Germany's strict management model has achieved good results. It has been adopted by other countries. The "flexible policy" implemented by France on this basis has also achieved very good results. The United States takes another route. It does not rigidly specify the proportion of various packaging wastes to be recycled. It does not limit the way that packaging wastes are handled. The disposal of packaging wastes is done by the original municipal waste treatment system. According to expert analysis of this issue, the United States has a leading level in this regard. It now appears that strengthening recycling and disposal of waste is a good way to protect the environment.
Establish a packaging waste recycling system. With reference to the German practice, a dedicated packaging waste disposal system can be established by the enterprise. This system does not replace the existing municipal waste treatment system, but serves as a supplement to this system, making the system more concise and effective.
In previous years, Beijing and other cities tried to set up a special recycling company. The packaging and packaging companies paid a certain amount of recycling and processing fees to the recycling company according to their production. The recycling company was responsible for recycling the designated packaging waste. At that time, good results were achieved: Beijing's five garbage disposal sites were piled with white plastic products like the hills, and even the waste plastic lunch boxes of the nearby provinces and cities were collected. Later, due to the insufficiency of processing capacity, the market development of processed products was not done well, and finally the recycling was stopped. It now appears that if these recyclables were sent directly to the incineration power plant and the processing fee was given to the incineration power plant, this was a good thing that the power plant could not do.
Packaging waste recycling system is based on packaging companies, especially the production of disposable plastic foam tableware and other products that have a large impact on the environment. For them, paying a certain amount of recycling and processing fees is much stronger than being suspended. For established packaging companies, production can control pollution. The key to this system is that there are a group of companies that are specifically responsible for recycling. They use the return fees paid by the production companies to recycle the specified packaging wastes and send them to the companies that deal with them. Because recycling is not difficult, these companies also There will be benefits.