Japan's packaging and waste environmental protection

A few days ago, the packaging and environmental protection group consisting of the executive director of the Japan Packaging Technology Association and the Director of the Bureau of Business Administration, Shizuo Yasuhiko, and a member of the Bureau of Trade Affairs and Committee member Sawamurabong, and the packaging and packaging wastes and environmental protection of Shanghai's packaging and related industries were the themes. Thematic interviews and exchanges.

Mr. Kojima, Chairman of the Japan Packaging Subcommittee and Director of the Business Planning Department of Toyo Seika Co., Ltd., first introduced the “Committee for the Formulation of Packaging and Packaging Wastes and Environmental Filtering and Packaging Standards” (Draft). At the International Packaging Exhibition in October of the year, international peers were invited to discuss together to perfect and implement it in a wider world.

According to reports, the current recycling situation of packaging waste in Japan, quite worthy of reference. Such as: Japan 2004 glass production 1500 (1000 tons), utilization of 1480 (thousand tons), utilization rate of 90%. The output of metal cans is 800 (each ton), and the recycling rate is 87.1%. PET bottle production 490 (thousand tons), utilization of 63%. Beer bottle production 159.1 (million cans), the utilization of 86.1%. According to the introduction of one of its important experiences is: in the recycling operation of various types of packaging containers, most of them have established a special “promotion and promotion” organization, such as the aluminum can recycling association, the PET bottle recycling promotion association, and glass. The Bottle and Pot Recycling Promotion Association and the Japan Packaging Container Recycling Association have formed a coordinated management system for the recycling and utilization of renewable resources, which has played a powerful and effective role.

Japan has a lot of successful experience in saving and reducing the use of packaging materials. Among these are: Sony's use of cushioning packaging materials, (1) the use of foam plastic in front of the product, and the use of corrugated cardboard as a cushioning material; 2) The original electrical product uses 4 pieces of plastic foam material as cushioning and shockproof, and now it is changed into only four corners for buffer and shockproof. According to Japanese experts, advanced industrial countries such as the United States, Japan, and Germany have experienced the importance of packaging and packaging waste to environmental protection in the process of industrial product production and development, and have accumulated valuable experience with many promotional values. Such as "three R" (ie: resource reduction, reuse and recycling recycling) and other important elements of the circular economy.

According to reports, in the course of economic development in Japan, since 1969, it has been proposed that packaging is too large and excessively problematic. At the same time, issues such as garbage pollution caused by packaging have emerged; thus, a series of corresponding control measures have been adopted for a long period of research. Although separated by more than 30 years, we are still tirelessly studying such issues as packaging and environmental protection. It is not difficult to see the importance of packaging in economic development. At the same time, it also has a complexity and a certain degree of difficulty in experiencing packaging and packaging waste and environmental impacts. It should arouse the attention of a wide range of society, like its Japanese counterparts. We will continue this work tirelessly for a long time.


Author (Liu Sim)

Source: Shanghai Packaging