Packaging life cycle analysis promotes the realization of green packaging

Packaging life cycle analysis and its significance

1. Packaging life cycle analysis

Packaging life cycle analysis refers to the analysis from the purchase of packaging raw materials to the entire life cycle of production, transportation, sales, use and disposal. In the packaging life cycle analysis, you need to know the information of the packaged goods, and the package life cycle analysis must also be included in the analysis of the product life cycle. The type and amount of packaging materials is an important indicator of carbon emissions performance.

2. The significance of packaging life cycle analysis

Through packaging life cycle analysis, we can get the environmental performance of the packaging used, guiding packaging suppliers and retailers to choose lower carbon or more environmentally friendly packaging materials, packaging processing technology, while creating under quantifiable low carbon environmental conditions And the application of quantifiable green packaging, rather than the green packaging under the perceptual knowledge, which has certain guiding significance for the wide application of green packaging. The widespread use of green packaging can greatly improve the environmental impact of packaging, which is the true meaning of packaging life cycle analysis.

Green packaging implementation path

1. Packaging reduction

Under the premise of satisfying the protection of packaging, reducing the weight of materials is one of the values ​​of packaging life cycle analysis guidance.

2. Packaging can be recycled

Choose renewable packaging materials.

3. Packaging ecological design

That is, design environmentally friendly packaging, or packaging that has a relatively small impact on the environment.

(From " Printing Technology Packaging, Decoration Printing", 2012, issue 5)