Defining the Concept and Legal Characteristics of Green Packaging (III)

Second, the legal characteristics of green packaging

From traditional packaging to green packaging, it is not only a major change in the aspects of packaging materials, production technology, circulation and use, waste disposal, and the need to adapt to environmental protection and resource conservation, but it is also a major change in ideological concepts. Therefore, green packaging has some legal features that are different from traditional packaging.

(1) Green packaging is the embodiment of the whole process control concept in the packaging field. Green packaging requires to reduce the adverse impact of packaging on the environment throughout the entire life cycle of packaging products and to seek opportunities to improve the environmental impact of packaging. Unlike traditional end-of-pipe governance, green packaging embodies the idea of ​​controlling the whole process of “cradle-to-grave” environmental issues brought about by packaging.

1. From the perspective of legal regulation, green packaging is divided into the greening of the packaging industry and the greening of the packaging. The entire life cycle of packaging products can be divided into two parts, namely the production, circulation and consumption of packaging industry and packaging. The environmental pollution and waste of resources caused by the packaging industry are not fundamentally different from those of other industries. It is part of the industrial environmental problems in China. The environmental problems caused by packaging refer to the production of packaging materials from the time of production to transportation and sales until the end. The problem of environmental pollution and waste of resources caused by the consumption of consumers after they have been consumed and discharged into the environment in the form of waste is different from the environmental problems brought about by the packaging industry itself. It is caused by packaging products. Environmental issues. The environmental law regulates the two packaging environmental issues separately. In terms of the greening of the packaging industry, it is mainly the discharge of waste water, waste gas, waste slag, and noise, and the pollution prevention and control law of environmental factors related to the packaging industry, forests, grasslands, and minerals. Law on the conservation of natural resources such as land and land; on the greening of packaging materials, the emphasis is on avoiding and reducing the generation of packaging waste. The main content is the harmlessness of packaging materials and the reduction of packaging materials (including reducing the amount and recycling Use, recycling, etc.), recycling of packaging materials and consideration of environmental requirements in packaging design.

2. The focus of green packaging is the greening of the packaging. The afforestation of the packaging is both active and emission control. The main method of source control is harmless packaging materials and packaging reduction; emission control is the end of the control, the main method is the recovery of packaging waste, recycled recycling and recycling, recycling can not be used after the recycling of packaging waste Should be able to degrade, can not be degraded should be able to deal with incineration, burial, etc., to minimize the harm to the environment.

(b) The diversity of the main parties responsible for green packaging. As the green packaging is the whole process of control, involving the greening of the packaging industry and the greening of the packaging, it is obliged to implement the main body of green packaging with diversity. First of all, in the greening aspect of the packaging industry, packaging companies are obligatory entities, and their industrial pollution emissions and resource destruction to the environment must be limited to a certain extent. Secondly, in the greening aspect of packaging, the producers, operators and consumers of packaging are the main parties. At the production stage of the product, packaging companies (including packaging and packaging materials, companies that sell directly to the market, and packaging and processing of products of others) and product manufacturing companies (industries that produce products and are responsible for packaging themselves) There is an obligation to implement green packaging. In the product's operating phase, transport companies have the obligation to implement green packaging for transport packaging, sales companies, and sales packaging. At the consumer stage of the product, consumers also have the obligation to implement green packaging such as recycling packaging.

(3) Green packaging has self-interest and public welfare. The implementation of green packaging by enterprises can bring benefits to enterprises. The economic nature of green packaging is reflected in the legal self-benefit of green packaging. However, the implementation of green packaging by enterprises not only brings economic benefits to the company itself, but also protects the environment objectively and creates public benefits for the entire society. This is the public benefit of green packaging. In terms of content, the self-benefit of green packaging is manifested in two aspects: First, survival benefits, green packaging reduces environmental pollution and waste of resources, which is beneficial to the survival of the enterprise itself; second, property interests, green packaging We can take advantage of and use as company's assets. The public welfare of green packaging includes negative public welfare and positive public welfare. In the negative sense, public welfare refers to the fact that green packaging does not violate public interests; in the positive sense, public welfare means that green packaging does not violate public interests. And it has also increased public interest.

Source: Knowledge Product Procurement