How to choose environmentally friendly packaging materials

More and more companies are beginning to care about the problems of the earth's environment, and try their best to make the earth's environment better and better through their own strength, and at the same time, they can better market their own brands. Alibaba is a very good example. It can drive the public to reduce carbon emissions. By collecting 'green energy', you can claim a small sapling of your own in the Alipay APP, and then Alibaba will plant it. While Alibaba is keen on public welfare activities, it also makes more potential users understand and fall in love with this enterprise. For ordinary companies, the easiest way is to do their part for the earth's environment through environmentally friendly product packaging.

Simply put, environmentally friendly packaging generally refers to packaging materials that are recyclable, reusable, biodegradable, and made from renewable resources. In fact, even if it is an environmentally friendly packaging box, its environmental protection index is also different.

Paper——The raw material for papermaking is mainly plant fibers. In addition to the three major components of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, the raw materials also contain other components with less content, such as resin and ash. And the paper can be recycled and made into paper products again. From this, we know that most of the raw materials of paper are made of plant ingredients or recycled materials. We may think that paper packaging boxes are the most environmentally friendly packaging boxes, but they are not. The auxiliary elements added during the production of the packaging box are different, and the environmental protection index is also deviated. For example: the ink used in printing; whether the packaging box is covered with film; how much glue is used, etc.

Plastic—Although plastic is a recyclable material, it is not environmentally friendly. First of all, when plastic is recycled, it is difficult to sort and it is not economical. Second, if plastic is not recycled, it may take hundreds of years to biodegrade if it is buried in the ground; if it is incinerated, it will also produce toxic gases. Finally, plastics are made from the products of petroleum refining, which is a non-renewable resource.

When choosing packaging materials, we may not be able to find absolutely environmentally friendly materials, but we can choose relatively environmentally friendly packaging materials, and paper packaging boxes are very good. In the process of packaging box customization, it is also necessary to use environmentally friendly ingredients as much as possible.