Green Packaging and Protecting Human Survival Environment (Chinese)

Second, the necessity of implementing green packaging

1, the concept of green packaging. Green packaging, also known as ecological packaging, or friends of the environment packaging. Green packaging, there is currently no unified definition in the international community, generally refers to "no harm to the ecological environment and human health, can be reused or recycled, in line with sustainable development principles of packaging" for the green packaging. The main implications of this concept are the following four aspects:

(1) Under the premise of guaranteeing the protection, transportation, storage and consumption of articles, the total amount of packaging materials should be reduced as much as possible to save natural resources and energy;

(2) It is conducive to recycling of resources, and packaging waste can be easily recycled or recycled;

(3) The discarded packaging does not generate toxic gas when incinerated, does not form secondary pollution, and can generate new resources and energy during the treatment process;

(4) The discarded packages are easily degraded under natural conditions, and the degradants are not polluting the environment.

2. The necessity of implementing green packaging. The rapid development of the packaging industry and Other industries has brought about serious negative impacts on humankind in creating unprecedented material and spiritual civilizations. Three major problems, such as environmental degradation, lack of resources, and energy shortages, threaten the life of the earth. Space and the living environment of human beings are bound to hinder the sustainable development of the world economy.

According to the UN Environment Agency’s report on "The Action to Take You and Your Community's Environment Guide" on the eve of "Earth Day" on April 22, 1996, a series of alarming figures have been gathered in various fields of the world: The Antarctic ozone hole is Each year, the speed of a U.S. land area is expanding;
The long-term drive of solar ultraviolet radiation, the incidence of human skin cancer continues to rise, and the air quality is seriously degraded. There are 125 million people in the world living in dirty air; 12% of mammals and 115 species of birds are on the verge of extinction;
150 to 200 species of organisms disappear from the earth every 24 hours; there are no domestic sewage discharge devices in the living environment of 1.2 billion people globally; global soil loss exceeds 20 billion tons per year; and chemical pesticides use more than 27 million tons per year. With the extensive use of various fertilizers, soil and food crops have been polluted to varying degrees. These problems also exist in China, with serious air pollution. Each year, 12 million tons of soot and 7 million tons of SO2 are discharged into the air.
Every year, more than 600 million tons of industrial wastes are discharged, and 9.4 billion tons of waste has been accumulated, covering an area of ​​690 million square meters. Municipal solid waste (solid waste) has exceeded 190 million tons in 1997, causing serious soil erosion, and the country’s soil erosion area has reached 3.67 million square kilometers, accounting for 38.2% of the country's total land area. The amount of arable land reduced in 40 years has reached 40 million mu; the green barrier has been drastically reduced, the grassland has been degraded to an area of ​​100 million hectares, the forest coverage rate is only 13.9%, and 2,100 square kilometers of desertified land each year. ;
According to the analysis of the Ministry of Water Resources, according to the Ministry of Water Resources, by 2010, the total water demand of China's industry, agriculture, living, and ecological environment will be 698.8 billion cubic meters in the middle drought year, with a total water supply of 667 billion cubic meters, and a deficit of 31.8 billion cubic meters.

With the development of industry, the consumption of natural resources is getting bigger and bigger. Although some natural resources can be regenerated, forest resources can come to a cycle of 10 to 20 years, but some natural resources cannot be regenerated, and consumption is less. It will certainly affect the sustainable development of industry. Ecological environmental pollution poses a threat to human survival. On the World Environment Day on June 5, 1972, the United Nations issued the "Declaration on the Human Environment," "the environment gives humans something to survive, and provides humans with opportunities for development in intellectual, moral, social, and spiritual development." ... The human environment is indispensable for human happiness and for the enjoyment of basic human rights and even the right to life itself."

(to be continued)