How to find the balance of green packaging from circular economy (4)

The "Cleaner Production Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that: Enterprises that produce and sell products and packaging items that have been included in the compulsory recycling catalog must recycle the products and packaging after the products are scrapped and used; Compulsory recycling of products and packaging of catalogues shall be subject to economic measures conducive to recycling; the government's economic and trade administrative department shall regularly inspect the implementation of compulsory recycling of products and packaging, and promptly announce the inspection results to the public; failing to perform the products or packaging In case of an obligation for recovery, the administrative department of economy and trade of the government shall order it to make corrections within a time limit, and if it refuses to make corrections, it shall be fined not more than 100,000 yuan.

Circular economy policies and regulations inform people: Manufacturers and sellers of packaging products should be responsible for the entire life cycle of the products. They are obliged to recycle and dispose of the waste generated by their products and bear the necessary expenses. The packaging produced in industrial enterprises and circulation enterprises Waste must not enter municipal waste disposal systems. This means that whoever produces these products must be responsible for recycling the packaging waste of these products, and you have no right to continue to organize production. This has increased the awareness of producers and sellers to reduce packaging waste, and has also changed people's perception of packaging waste, viewing it as a renewable resource that can be used.

(II) Using economic means to promote the recovery of packaging waste

The circular economy adopts the principle of "polluter pollution, who pays," and "whoever manages, who benefits", and polluters pay a huge economic price, making it necessary to implement cleaner production; so that the polluters can obtain considerable economic benefits. Encourage all sectors of the community to invest in the environmental protection industry.

1, collect garbage tax. The most direct incentive for circular economy is to charge according to the amount of garbage that is dumped. There are more than 200 cities in the United States that levy garbage taxes. A study showed that if the 32-gallon garbage per bag is taxed at US$1.5, it will reduce urban waste by 18%. Many European countries have adopted waste charging policies, but at the same time they actively encourage the recycling of packaging waste. Special recycling bins are provided in residential areas and public places to facilitate people's input of packaging waste. It is free to put packaging waste into the recycling bin, and it will be charged if it is put into garbage bags as garbage.

2. Levy package tax. The state can collect packaging taxes on products that can cause environmental impact from packaging waste. This approach raises the cost price of those packaging wastes that require special disposal or is not easily recycled. Relatively reduces the price of those products that use easy-to-recycle packaging, stimulates them with market price mechanisms, and forces product producers to design and produce. In the initial stage, it is considered whether the packaging can be easily recycled after use, thereby reducing environmental pollution.

3, collect the packaging deposit. For some packages that are easy to reuse directly, a package deposit system can be used. The seller delivers the deposit to the producer, and the customer delivers the deposit to the seller, driving the recycling of the packaging waste in economic interest.

After nearly three decades of depletion since the industrial revolution, the natural resources available for human use have been running out. The ecological environment of the earth has also been threatened unprecedentedly. Mankind must seek new development paths. Circular economy is one of the most important choices. The new civilization will inevitably accompany the emergence of new industries. Green packaging is an inevitable trend for the sustainable development of the packaging industry in circular economy. In the recycling economy, packaging and the earth will eventually achieve harmony.

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