How to Put Green Packaging into Practice

The green packaging, often called the environmental friendly packaging, refers to the package which is harmless to the ecological environment and human health, can be reused and regenerated, and conforms to the sustainable development policy. Its concept has two meanings, one is to protect the environment, the other is to save resources, and neither can exist effectively without the other. Then how to put the theory into practice?



1. Usage of paper material The paper packaging is environmental friendly because of its ingredient, that is natural plant fiber, which will soon rot in nature. The advantages of pulp molding products, besides light in weight, cheap and shockproof, they also have good breathability for food preservation. In the circulation of International commodities, paper material is widely used for packaging of eggs, fruit and glass products that are fragile and easy to be damaged.

2. Reusage of reproducible packaging materials The land and forest is the basis of ecological balance. Indiscriminately deforestation will bring immeasurable disaster to human society. According to the current situation, reusable packing material should be taken into consideration. For instance, the glass bottles which used to hold beer, drink and soy sauce can be used repeatedly. The physical method is to dispose the products without any residues, and the processed material can be manufactured again.

3. Edible packaging material It is a good method to deal with the problems between environment and food packaging waste. A company in Australia has developed a kind of edible potato packaging. After eating potato chips, people can also eat the package. Typical edible packaging material such as the packaging for candy and ice-cream may be familiar with people.

4. Biodegradable material Biodegradable material has the functions and features of traditional packaging materials. It can be directly degraded with the effect of ultraviolet light and microorganism in soil and water.