Harmfulness of product over packaging and countermeasures (1)

Under the conditions of a sustainable market economy, manufacturing companies place great emphasis on product packaging. From naked to packaging, from packaging to hardcover, it reflects the progress of society. Appropriate packaging is a must for businesses, helping to prevent damage to goods in circulation and improving the quality of goods, but excessive packaging has distorted product prices. Overpacking is reflected in two aspects: one is to increase the quality of printing indefinitely, use expensive packaging materials, and force customers to pay more for packaging. The second is to use too much packaging material and not pay attention to the simple design of packaging. With the increase of global trade and consumer demand, excessive packaging of products has become the most troublesome issue for governments of all countries. To prevent excessive packaging of products requires the support and protection of the legal system.

1 The actual hazards of overpacking and the problems reflected

1.1 The actual hazards of over packaging of products

1.1.1 Pollution Environment

Domestic garbage is an important source of pollution that plagues urban environmental governance. The over-packaging of products is undoubtedly even worse for ever-increasing domestic waste. "Reduction" is currently the most effective method of dealing with municipal solid waste. Only by reducing the amount of garbage at the source can we reduce the burden of subsequent governance and effectively control the pollution of the environment. Simplifying product over packaging is undoubtedly an important part of reduction. Some developed countries have strict restrictions on the degree of specification of goods packaging. This is why this is the reason.

1.1.2 wasting resources

Excessive packaging not only wastes resources, but also wastes resources. It is a crisis of energy security. Take the packaging carton as an example. According to statistics, the average annual production of shirts is 1.2 billion pieces. The amount of paper used in the packaging box is 240,000 tons, which is equivalent to cutting off 1.68 million thick trees at the bowl mouth, and the paper used for the packaging shirts. Boxes are just a drop in the sea of ​​carton packs. If you count the amount of paper used for packing all goods and the trees you want to cut down, it is undoubtedly an astronomical figure. Some people say that the more “green” the cartons use, the faster they disappear.

1.1.3 Unfair competition

Enterprises that overpack their products do not rely on internal quality to dominate the market. Instead, they rely on packaging to please or even confuse consumers, thus occupying market positions and defeating competitors. It is a kind of fraudulent consumer behavior to pack valuable things in three layers and three layers, to dress fake and shoddy goods “broke up”, and to “debris”.

1.1.4 Increased Consumer Economic Twist

Enterprises that overpack their products are simply trying to earn more profits from consumers through the appearance of their products. Excessive packaging will inevitably increase the price of goods, and these exquisite packages ultimately require consumers to pay for them. Consumers are buying for the quality of the product. However, due to the company's “Bawang packaging”, consumers have to pay a priceless price.

1.2 Problems Reflected by Overpacked Products

1.2.1 The society needs to promote green consumption

Excessive product packaging is not only the fault of the production company, but also shows that our concept of green consumption has not yet formed. The protection of the environment must change the mistaken idea of ​​relying solely on the government. In foreign countries, it is the large number of organizations of non-governmental environmental protection organizations that play a very good role in protecting the environment. Social environmental groups should resist spontaneous over-packaging. The real realization of green consumption depends on the improvement of consumer spending quality. The society should extensively carry out propaganda and education of green consumption knowledge, green consumer volunteer activities, so that consumers have the necessary knowledge of green consumption, and encourage more people to be enthusiastic about environmental protection. Circular economy is a kind of economic development that uses ecological laws to guide human society and establishes a new economic development model based on the continuous recycling of materials. It requires the organization of economic activities as a closed process of “resources use, green resources and regeneration of resources”. All raw materials and energy should be used rationally in the ongoing economic cycle, so as to control the impact of economic activities on the natural environment. As small as possible. Considering the management of excessive packaging from the “end” is to establish a recycling system for packaging waste.

1.2.4 China needs legal system support and protection

Only two places in the current law regulate the packaging and recycling of products. Article 20 of the Cleaner Production Act:

The design of products and packaging should consider its impact on human health and the environment during the life cycle. Priority should be given to programs that are non-toxic, harmless, easily degradable, or easy to recycle; companies should rationally package their products and reduce packaging materials. The overuse and packaging waste generated.

Solid Waste Pollution Prevention and Control Law

Article l7: Products should be packaged that is easy to recycle, easy to dispose, or easily absorbed in the environment; product producers, sellers, and users should recycle product packaging and containers that can be recycled in accordance with relevant state regulations. use. It can be seen from this that the provisions of our country's laws on product packaging are basically at the level of policy declarations and do not have specific operability. Although China has realized the necessity of simplifying packaging and the recycling of product packaging, only these two simple provisions cannot solve the real problems.

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