Material selection and design principles in green packaging design
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In the early stage of industrialization, the environmental impact of materials is rarely considered, but the choice of materials in green packaging design is crucial. It not only determines the degree of environmental hazard of the product, but also determines the recyclability of the product. How to choose the right materials to meet the requirements of sustainable production when designing packaging products is a complex task, and a process that takes into account material properties, environmental factors and knowledge in the field. Therefore, the designer is deeply involved. Carefully and specifically understand and master packaging materials with environmental protection functions and apply them in green packaging design practices to minimize material pollution, maintain the ecological balance of the natural environment and social environment, and promote the use of the earth resources by the packaging industry. Conversion to a cyclic regeneration type.
First, the characteristics of green packaging design materials
1. Characteristics and application of materials
The properties of the material often determine the effectiveness of the material energy during the production process and use. Green packaging materials should be low-energy, low-cost, less polluting materials, and the materials selected are easy to process, no pollution or less pollution during processing. For example, self-destructive plastics in self-destructive materials designed and developed by Chinese scientific research institutions for environmental protection are special ultraviolet sensitizers added to polyolefins, which can be quickly decomposed after using waste. Therefore, the selection and application of green packaging materials mainly consider the following factors.
1) When designing similar packaging products, try to use the same packaging materials for recycling. For example, WHIRLPOOL Germany reduced the number of materials used for packaging from 20 to 4, reducing the cost of waste disposal to 50%.
2) Full consideration of the recycling of materials, which not only saves raw materials, but also facilitates the recycling of resources.
3) The degradability of materials should be considered in the design. In 1997, the State Environmental Protection Agency announced the environmental labeling and product technical requirements for degradable plastic packaging products, and implemented the labeling system for the identification of degradable plastic packaging products, which will greatly improve the pollution status of plastic packaging.
4) Design and manufacture packaging products that can be used repeatedly. For example, a super-strength bottle developed by Japan's Asahi, Zhazi and other beer companies has twice the lifespan of the original bottle, and the time for customers to use it can be up to 16 years. The environmental protection significance is greatly better than the one-time packaging. .
2. Re-recognition of traditional natural packaging materials
Our ancestors began to directly use the materials available around them long ago to package their labor and life, forming a distinctive green packaging quality connotation and national packaging style, which contains The simplicity of natural values and environmental protection still have its brilliance.
Plant leaf packaging. These materials include bamboo leaves, lotus leaves, eucalyptus leaves and the like. For example, Guangdong's gourd tea, which directly applies the bamboo leaves of nature, bundles a piece of brown tea with a fine grass rope to form a small ball that is connected, similar to the waist-shaped gourd growing in the north. The tea leaves packed in the method are kept in the original bamboo leaves for a long time. When drinking, the straw rope can be untied at any time, and the tea leaves are taken out, and the rest is still stored strictly in the gourd below.
Grass fiber packaging. This is a unique form of packaging in Yunnan, China. People living here have long grown rice and raised poultry. As the eggs are exchanged, the elastic and strong straw is woven into a mesh bag that can accommodate eggs. The eggs wrapped in the straw net are pink and fresh, giving a natural and fresh feeling. There are Yunnan eggs that are worn with ropes.
Bamboo packaging. Our ancestors became inextricably linked with bamboo and wood in the generations of working life, and bamboo rafts have been used as packaging tools.