Problems and Countermeasures in Packaging of Wood Materials (I)

China is a country with a lack of forest resources. Due to the rapid development of the national economy, the sustainable development of forest resources and the contradiction between the supply and demand of wood products are becoming increasingly acute. The forest industry has to be in a situation of over-death for a long time, resulting in the exhaustion of recoverable resources and the use of wood products. The packaging industry is also in a very embarrassing position. Under such circumstances, how can we fundamentally solve these problems, achieve the green packaging of wood products and implement the scientific concept of development, and promote the sustainable development of China's resources? The author only discusses the packaging of wooden products as follows.

1 Wood material is natural green packaging material

First of all, wood packaging has its unique advantages. Wood is recognized as a renewable resource in the world today, and it is the oldest packaging material in history. Second, wood processing pollution is small and has good environmental coordination. The amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the processing process can illustrate this point. The packaging of wood products has very good environmental protection characteristics. Also, compared with other materials, wood processing energy consumption is minimal. In addition, wood has pleasant visual, tactile, olfactory, and humidity-control properties. It is a good indoor environment material and life tool material. In particular, paper products that use wood as the main raw material have good printability and excellent ease. Folding performance, light weight, easy to recycle, is the most widely used material in the packaging industry.

Apart from synthetic materials such as plastics and rubbers, of all natural renewable materials, only wood itself is not only environmentally friendly material, but also its unique green packaging performance. Therefore, wood packaging materials are the most widely used green packaging materials in the world. one.

2 Status of application of wood packaging

In recent years, China’s economic development has been rapid, with almost every year increasing at a rate of 9%. At the same time, various resources are also consumed, and wood is one of them. As we all know, China's timber resources are extremely scarce. According to the trend analysis of timber consumption over the years, the average annual domestic timber consumption has reached 30,000-300 million m3, reached 370 million m3 in 2005, and will reach 460 million m3 in 2015. According to the demand forecast data, the minimum gap between the supply and demand of wood in the future (2005~2015) will be 120-170 million m3.

Therefore, a large amount of wood needs to be imported every year to make up for the huge gap between supply and demand. However, in China's 300 million m3 consumed each year, almost one-tenth of the wood is used for various product packaging. For example, paper packaging, China's annual consumption of paper packaging products is about 20 million tons, of which wood pulp as the main raw material accounts for about 40%, nearly 8 million tons, consumes more than 20 million m3 of pure commercial materials, if these timber upright That is a vast forest.

One of the serious wood packaging is the once-a-year moon cake box "war." According to relevant statistics, China’s monthly packaging costs for moon cake boxes are as much as 2.5 billion yuan, moon cake box packaging costs account for more than one-third of the total cost of moon cake production, and waste of wood resources reaches 80,000 m3. China's packaging standards are a serious phenomenon of excessive packaging.

In addition, paper packaging in everyday life abounds, such as various cigarette cases, wine boxes, hat boxes, shoe boxes, toothpaste boxes, shirt boxes, food boxes, gift boxes, and a large number of transport cartons. However, the fate of these well-textured and aesthetically pleasing paper packages is the same. That is, they are discarded, and most of the processing results are incinerated. Only about 20% of waste paper packaging discards have been recovered.

Solid wood packaging has been the main transportation and packaging material for large and medium-sized equipment precision instruments and some glass ceramic products in China. Most of these solid wood products were discarded after they were dismantled by consumers.

The main problems in the packaging of wood products in China are as follows: 1 The country lacks overall macro-control and specific laws and regulations to restrict enterprises and consumers; 2 It lacks specific and effective resource utilization and recycling measures; 3 The company has a short-sighted outlook and pursues the current interest phenomenon. Seriously; 4 Consumers lack of green awareness and correct consumer attitudes. The following discusses solutions to these problems and measures.

3 Methods and Measures to Solve Problems in Packaging of Wooden Products

3.1 Implementation of Legal Regulation by the State

From the point of view of the promotion of green packaging in the world, the legal regulation of green packaging is indispensable and fruitful. However, the existing laws of our country do not perfectly regulate the legal regulation of green packaging, and it is necessary to learn from foreign experience.

In many foreign countries, laws and regulations restricting over-packaging and encouraging the development of green packaging have been developed. For example, Germany, which first advocated the recycling of packaging materials, has formulated the “Circular Economy Law” and Denmark has taken the lead in implementing the “Green Tax” system.

Relevant departments in our country must formulate measures to strengthen management and seize it from the source, so that the content of the product itself and the external form of packaging become a proper combination, not a flashy propaganda. It is proposed to formulate the "Regulations on Commodity Packaging", promote rational packaging, prohibit excessive packaging, encourage the development of green packaging, and strengthen the recycling of packaging waste. There must be a special system and specific targeted legal measures. In terms of packaging of wooden products, relevant laws and regulations should be introduced to avoid the enormous waste of resources caused by the transition packaging, and the only green resources in China should be maintained. To enable it to continue to develop for the benefit of future generations.