With the restriction of the use of plastic bags by charging methods, pollution problems of plastic packaging products again prominent. So many people put forward, replace paper packaging plastic products to solve white pollution. For a time paper tableware, paper packaging seems to have become synonymous with green packaging. However, paper and plastic on environmental protection do?
Packaging Industry analysis: First, the paper products will consume a lot of wood, from the environmental terms this is not a wise move. From common sense, pulp production requires a lot of timber resources, our limited forest resources, forest resources per capita is far below the world's average level. A lot of deforestation will cause soil erosion, destruction of vegetation, loss of wetlands, desertification, leading to serious environmental problems. However, this problem can be solved by forest enterprise nurseries.
More importantly, studies have shown that paper in terms of resource consumption and environmental pollution, even more than the production of plastic products. University of Toronto conducted a study, respectively, polystyrene foam and paper drink cups produce 1 ton of products, compared the environmental impact of its production and use caused. The results show that, for the consumption of resources, production of the same specifications, to achieve the same effect is 2.5 times the cups plastic cups. Production of plastic cups pollution of the environment is limited, while the production of paper cups of water and air pollution is extremely serious. It can be seen not only from the production process, even after use of the waste, the volume of paper cups nearly 2 times larger than the volume of plastic cups, combustion ash generated more than plastic cups nearly doubled.
This study shows that plastic pollution of the environment is much smaller than the paper products. Therefore a comprehensive comparison, a means of paper and plastic and can not completely eliminate damage to the environment, but the pollution caused by the use of the product after the production process to advance. It is obvious that, in the last century, our country implemented to plastic and paper to plastic and steel policy is a step forward in the field of packaging. Plastic and paper is no longer just an alternative concept, but technological progress and enhance the overall performance of the collection. Because plastic packaging products in the mechanical strength, water resistance, oil resistance, ease of use and processing flexibility, low cost, and many other aspects of paper products are unmatched.
So now re-start the era of paper and plastic is almost impossible. Instant single problem from the point of view of environmental protection, environmental pollution, plastic packaging and disposable foam plastic tableware and other plastic products caused by the plastic material itself is not wrong, but the most important reason is the improper use and inadequate recycling. When building a harmonious society and the theme of conservation-oriented society played, strengthening the development of environmental laws and regulations to speed up the development of plastic waste recycling technology, strengthen the supervision of waste plastic recycling industry, the introduction of incentives for waste plastic recycling industry, is the an effective way to cure the problem of plastic pollution