Building blocks, coffee cups, food packaging, plastic bags, plastic boxes ... These plastic products have been integrated into our lives and bone marrow. We cannot afford to give up the convenience brought by plastics, so in the face of plastic pollution, we can only think of ways to recycle. Use plastics, or use existing science to create new plastics that are more suitable for the environment and humans.
LEGO, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, KFC... These familiar companies also regard environmental protection as their own responsibility, develop their thinking, and strive for green plastics or more efficient plastic recycling technologies. Here's how companies can be fun and delicious. And environmental protection?
LEGO: Sucrose plastic I came
LEGO is called 'Magic Plastic Building Blocks' and its production requires the use of a large amount of plastics. As a forward-looking company, LEGO has been considering the environmental issues of raw materials, and hopes to use more environmentally friendly and healthy materials to make bricks. Most of the LEGO bricks are made of petrochemical raw materials. Gradually replacing these materials with more environmentally friendly and healthy materials, LEGO has a long way to go. Recently, LEGO announced that it changed some of the building blocks' raw materials from the original petrochemical plastics to pure plant materials. The raw material is sugarcane in the Brazilian rainforest.
Starbucks: Drop the coffee cup
Coffee giant Starbucks has ambitions for recyclable and biodegradable coffee cups. Representatives said that the company is not satisfied with the progress of the industry and believes that the pace of development is not fast enough. Recently, Starbucks announced that it will circulate to Closed Loop Partners. The economic center invests 10 million U.S. dollars to find a global end-to-end solution that allows cups from all over the world to be transferred from landfill sites, and strives to bring fully recyclable, compostable cups to market.
Greiner Packaging: Recycling, it's that simple
The K3 hard paper-plastic composite packaging technology developed by Greiner Packaging can optimize recycling and has been popular in the packaging of products such as yoghurt, cream cheese and muesli. It is nicknamed as 100% eco-friendly. This technology combines plastic and paperboard into packages. Easy to use, easier to separate when recycling, not only meeting environmental and design requirements, but also helping to minimize inventory.
Coca-Cola's biodegradable plastic bottles, IKEA's 'mushroom packaging', BASF's new biodegradable courier bags... More and more companies are joining this environmental team. The birth of these new plastics, new technologies, marks the global plastic Development will embark on a new stage, new stage, the future of green plastic worth the wait.