Packaging and printing play a very important role in protecting products, beautifying goods, promoting corporate culture, and realizing the storage, preservation, transportation, sales, and use of goods. At the same time, they also beautify people's lives and meet the growing material culture of the broad masses of people. Demand promotes and stimulates consumption. The packaging and printing framework serves as a bridge between the production, sales, and consumption of commodities. It plays a non-negligible role in enhancing the added value of commodities and enhancing their competitiveness. In 2003, the total output value of China's printing industry was 190 billion yuan, accounting for 2.9% of the total output value of the world's printing industry (US$780 billion), accounting for 1.6% of China’s gross domestic product (GDP) of 11.6 trillion yuan in 2003. For more than 20 years, China's packaging industry has developed rapidly. The total output value of the packaging industry in the country increased from RMB 7.2 billion in 1980 to RMB 250 billion in 2003, an increase of 34.7 times, and the average annual growth rate was 16.7%. From 1980 to 1997, its growth rate was far higher than the growth rate of GNP during the same period. After 1998, the average growth rate of the packaging industry tended to be normal, at around 10%. It is estimated that by 2005, the national packaging industry's total output value will reach 320 billion yuan: in 2010, it is expected to reach 450 billion yuan, and profits and taxes will be 32 billion yuan. On the whole, China's packaging and printing industry has not yet become an important pillar industry of the national economy. It is not yet an important part of the information industry. At the same time, the waste of resources, environmental pollution, and the impediments to sustainable development that are exposed in the packaging and printing industry. The problem can not be ignored. First, excessive packaging Packaging has two functions. One is to protect the goods from damage and deterioration during manufacture, transportation, warehousing and sales. The second is to beautify, propagate and add value to goods. If one-sided exaggeration of the second function of packaging, it is easy to cause over-packaging. Some of the commodities are fragrant, and there are only a small number of products in the large packaging boxes: some look grand and decent, and their packaging costs more than the cost of the products they sell; they are similar to the "bird's nests. There is no fake honey in honey. More than 70% of all kinds of packaging waste are over-reduced packaging. Excessive packaging has become a source of environmental pollution that cannot be ignored. It is an issue that must be addressed and urgently addressed. There are three major shortcomings in the over-packaging of goods nowadays: One is that excessive packaging has caused waste of resources, environmental pollution, and a lot of waste. For every 10 million boxes of moon cakes produced, at least 400 to 600 trees with a DBH of 10 cm must be consumed. At present, China only uses 240,000 tons of paper per year for packaging boxes, which is equivalent to cutting off 1.68 million trees with rough mouths. The rapid disappearance of forests has caused serious soil erosion, desertification, and other phenomena in the rivers and rivers. The function is becoming out of tune. China's total terrestrial water resources are 280 million cubic meters, ranking sixth in the world, but only 2,200 cubic meters of water resources per capita, only 1/4 of the world's per capita level, ranked 88th in the world, due to lack of water every year The company stopped production and reduced its industrial output value by 100 billion yuan. Now that there is already a mass of forests turned into wrapping paper, overpacking has added to the depleted natural resources. At the same time, all kinds of exquisite and luxurious packaging, turned to consumers instantly become rubbish, lost its value. Of the nearly 3 million tons of garbage produced in Beijing each year, about 830,000 tons of various goods are packaged, of which 600,000 tons are over-packaging items that could have been saved. Of the solid waste that can be comprehensively utilized in China and renewable resources that can be recycled and reused, more than 50 billion yuan has not been recycled. The second is infringement of the rights and interests of consumers. Excessive packaging causes the cost of goods to rise and is passed on to the consumer. For example, a mooncake produced by a company can be divided into 6 yuan, 8 yuan and 12 yuan in bulk. After the same moon cakes are put into cartons, wooden boxes, tin boxes and bamboo baskets, they turn into 50 yuan. 80 yuan, 120 yuan, 300 yuan a box. According to statistics, China's current packaging expenses have accounted for more than one-third of the total cost of moon cake production. The annual cost for moon cake packaging has reached 2.5 billion yuan. This huge amount of packaging expenses will ultimately be borne by consumers. The third is to encourage unfair competition. Nowadays, a lot of the energy of many businesses is not spent on improving the quality of products. Instead, they are blindly chasing the packaging on the “upgrades†and “upgradesâ€. The serious comparisons not only harm the interests of consumers, but also do harm to society. The development of productivity. In view of the current phenomenon of over-packaging, we should start with the following two points: First, limit the spread of excessive packaging through laws and regulations. To sum up, there are mainly the following three methods: First, the standard control, that is, set limits on the packaging volume, the gap between the packaging and the goods, the number of packaging layers, packaging costs and the ratio of the value of goods; Control of economic measures, such as non-paper packaging and packaging that does not meet the requirements for recycling, imposes a packaging tax, directs consumers to select simple packaging through garbage metering charges, and third, increases producer responsibility, and stipulates that mountain product producers are responsible for recycling commodities. Packaging, usually using a deposit system, entrusts the relevant commercial organization to recycle the packaging. In order to facilitate recycling, producers will actively choose package designs that use less material and are easy to recycle. Second, green packaging 1. Definition and misunderstanding The so-called “green packaging†refers to packaging that is harmless to the ecological environment and human health, can be reused and reused, and can promote sustainable development. The developed countries in the world have already determined the “3R+1D†principle of green packaging, namely low energy consumption, new green, reuse, recyclability and energy degradation. Due to the limited forest resources in our country, the pollution problems caused by papermaking are difficult to solve in a short time. If the paper is replaced by paper instead of plastic packaging, it is neither realistic nor environmentally friendly. A complete ban on plastic packaging will cause greater pollution. 2. Necessary measures China's green packaging industry started late, but it has developed rapidly. At present, there are still problems in the industry, such as the one-sidedness of the understanding of green packaging and the unbalanced development. To vigorously develop China's green packaging industry, we must start with the following three aspects: The first is to strengthen the development and development of green packaging materials. The emergence of new packaging materials such as paper packaging materials and edible, biodegradable, and recycling applications has eased the pressure on the ecological environment, reduced the depletion of increasingly exhausted petroleum resources, reduced environmental pollution, and solved the international prohibition on the use of non-degradable packaging. Material and the "green barrier" caused by China's export commodities. The extensive production and use of green packaging materials is of great significance both from the perspective of environmental protection, from the perspective of sustainable development of the national economy, and from the standpoint of high-tech packaging materials technology. The scientific development concept embodied in the packaging and printing industry. The second is to optimize the green packaging design. Packaging design should follow the design concept of harmless, ecological, and energy-saving, starting from material selection, structure and function, manufacturing process, packaging method, storage form, product use, and waste disposal, and comprehensively evaluate the use of resources. Environmental impact and solutions. The third is to improve the construction of the legal system. China's green packaging must conform to international practice and establish and improve China's green packaging laws and regulations. On the one hand, in view of the poor development of the packaging industry in China, the government should introduce relevant laws and regulations to limit it from the macro level to guide it to develop in a healthy direction. On the other hand, it needs the government to provide support for policies and accelerate the shortening of the developed countries. gap. For a long time, China's packaging and printing industry has developed extensively under high consumption, high energy consumption, and high pollution. However, with the fragility of human dust ecosystems, deteriorating environmental quality, and lack of resources, we can no longer use traditional development models in both resource stock and environmental bearing capacity. If the packaging and printing industry continues to follow the path of traditional economic development, it can only slow down the process of modernization in our country and hinder the healthy and sustainable development of the packaging and printing industry. While basing on the rapid development of the packaging and printing industry, attention should be paid to the co-ordination of the industry structure, benefits, and quality. Vigorously developing green packaging and printing is a concrete manifestation of circular economy in the packaging and printing industry. It is an essential requirement for the development of a recycling economy and an overall coordinated and sustainable development concept. It is a powerful measure for establishing a resource-saving society and promoting harmony between man and nature. Everyone in the packaging and printing industry must understand and use the overall vision to grasp the importance and urgency of developing a recycling economy, and further enhance the sense of conscientiousness and responsibility.