On November 22, the UK announced the 2018 budget, people have predicted that George Albens, Chancellor of the Exchequer, would take this opportunity to impose a plastic packaging tax to reduce the consumption of disposable plastic products.
For the electricity supplier, the most affected are the foam packaging, plastic mail bags and bubble pads.
The problem with plastic bags is that although it is cheap, it is usually a one-time item, which can cause a lot of waste and environmental pollution.Everyone in the internet has courier arriving at people's home almost everyday, and some customers may keep peculiar packing boxes or foam bags Used to wrap Christmas gifts, but the fate of most courier bags is thrown into the trash.
Some green packaging proponents are bullish about this move, noting that the UK has been levying a 5p plastic bag tax since 2015, reducing plastic bag usage so far by 80%. Thus, if this is used in plastic packaging Bags will have the same effect.
Greenpeace said: 'We call on large companies to take action to reduce the use of plastic bags and stop producing too many disposable plastic bags. We also call on governments to take action to address this issue by establishing a closed-loop system to recover and Reuse materials instead of wasting them.
However, some small entrepreneurs are not optimistic that they think the one-time plastic packaging tax will increase the cost of the e-commerce business and that the cost is not detrimental to their interests or the pressure is transferred to the customers. Although there are other packing materials such as Shrinking paper, but it is usually not as easy as the bubble film, fragile protection of the degree of bubble film is not as good.