'Double 11' Online Shopping Festival approaching, packaging waste and pollution problems have aroused people's attention, in fact, need to pay attention not only express packaging, packaging used in everyday life of various items should be obtained Better 'way out' for the environment.
From the special legislation to the establishment of industry standards, and then to change the way of consumption and lifestyle, some foreign practices worth learning.
Focus on discarding and recycling 'one-stop'
After each online shopping festival, packed mountain courier boxes are always annoying, when to throw, where to throw, many people do not know.In Switzerland, decades have formed a complete for waste paper, waste paperboard , The classification of waste paper recycling system.
In general, people will strictly follow the regulations, at a specific time to flatten the waste paperboard, cartons and strapping placed on the door, waiting for a special mechanism to recover, rather than casually throwing them out for cleaning After the receipt of the goods, the staff of the recycling agency will send the cardboard boxes and cartons to the collection points set up at the township level for cleaning and sorting in advance according to the quality level, and then transporting them to the cardboard processing factory in a concentrated manner.
In addition, the recovery of other renewable resources in Switzerland is also very successful, and the system is also focused on discarding all types of recycling association management and prepaid processing costs, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, glass recovery rate of 70 %the above.
In particular, the higher value of packaging waste, get the special attention of recycling companies in Switzerland there are 22 special treatment center, where aluminum packaging and steel packaging are separated by magnets to remove the surface material, and then was pressed into large pieces, Transported to 5 smelters near the border for reproduction to new industrial parts.
Forced law, regulation of production behavior
As early as the 1960s, the United States noticed the harm of packaging waste, and some state governments began to take legal measures to make compulsory recycling .In 1970, the U.S. government established a resource recovery system, but because the federal government does not have the right to package waste The views of the problem were imposed on the state governments, and the system did not perform as well as expected, and by the late 1980s the federal government turned to a general policy that would allow lawmakers to work out solutions to the difficult points in practice, including reducing packaging sources , Re-use, recycling and incineration, but received the response of the states.
Some of the most influential ones include: In 1993, California specifically designed a 'ransom for beverage containers', which mandated that all hard plastic containers be recycled for compliance with the previously proposed 10% reduction in raw material consumption or must contain 25% Recyclable material requirements, or not allowed to expand production.
The Florida state government is actively implementing the Waste Disposal Pre-collection Act (ADF), which deals with the cost of packaging waste to consumers who choose the products. To encourage packaging container manufacturers to recycle their products, the ADF requires manufacturers For example, according to the annual list of materials released by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where the recovery rate of listed materials reaches more than 50%, it is exempt from the pre-collection Processing fee.
Start from me, 'zero waste' life
In order to change the situation where packaging waste is discarded at will, it is often better to start from the consumer, and in the United States, four of them are actively practicing zero waste because they are reluctant to continue to be 'accomplices' to the destruction of the earth. 'Life, make changes from the source.
Her mother, Biya, who first came up with her initiative, explains that 'zero waste' life is about finding alternatives to what would otherwise be rubbish to make sure there are no more solid waste in the home. Ultimately, the ultimate goal of this lifestyle It is to stop using landfills to reduce the personal carbon footprint and reduce pollution.
In other words, this family should completely subvert the past spending habits as a housewife, Biya from home life as a starting point for the procurement of food, cleaning supplies must be 'zero waste' as a guideline, almost no longer use plastic packaging For example, bagged shaving cream is replaced by paper-wrapped shaving soap; cosmetics are the ones that can be recycled by the container; and when they go to the supermarket, they only buy the ingredients and do not buy the processed food and then they load the glass jar they carry in. The 100% eco-friendly non-bleached paper is paper-only, and the toothpaste is replaced with homemade dentifrice in a glass bottle.Thus, there is only one mini-bins in the entire home (for rubbish that has not been found to be suitable substitutes) And a green bucket.
Some people think that this way of life is too extreme, but Biya said, 'When I saw the trash cans in the urban areas always full, I saw someone drank and then discarded coffee mugs and bags, or see the magazine full of over Packaging product advertising, we understand that environmental education still needs to be strengthened.