Lightweight plastic packaging can alleviate people's concerns about environmental protection and sustainable development. More and more people are choosing products with better packaging, faster production speed, sturdy packaging, and reduced weight. When Japanese companies sell products in large quantities, a small reduction in resin usage on each packaging can bring considerable economic benefits to the company, especially with the unprecedented increase in the price of resin raw materials. More and more companies are showing a growing interest in lightweight packaging.

With the continuous improvement of people's living environment and environmental protection quality, green, environmentally friendly, and low-carbon plastic packaging will be increasingly praised by people. Plastic packaging has further developed from food packaging to industrial packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, building materials packaging, cosmetics packaging and other fields, and its scope of use and prospects will become increasingly broad.

At present, the proportion of plastic packaging in the total output value of the packaging industry in the market has exceeded 30%, becoming a driving force in the packaging industry and playing an irreplaceable role in various fields such as food, beverage, daily necessities, and industrial and agricultural production. The plastic packaging industry will mainly present three major development trends in the future:

Plastic packaging will move towards greenization, and plastic packaging waste has attracted widespread attention from society. Strengthening the scientific management and utilization of plastic packaging, maximizing the recycling of waste plastics, and gradually developing and utilizing biodegradable plastics. In China, biodegradable plastics have made significant progress, and vigorously developing and promoting their use is an urgent task.

Plastic packaging will move towards lightweighting, reducing packaging weight. Lightweighting refers to producing packaging with less material and reducing weight, which is profitable for both the environment and enterprises. Generally speaking, containers such as plastic bottles, plastic cans, plastic hoses, and plastic caps are more likely to achieve weight reduction goals.

As an industry with good development prospects, the plastic packaging market should be taken seriously. Enterprises and customers should have good communication and not default on payments. In addition, banks should lower the threshold for the plastic packaging market and provide timely financial support, so that the plastic packaging market can have a broader development prospect.

Six methods to make plastic packaging more environmentally friendly

Plastic packaging has excellent performance and occupies a large proportion in the packaging industry. However, due to the increasingly widespread use of plastic packaging, environmental issues have emerged one after another. Based on green environmental protection, on the other hand, it is necessary to improve the functionality and high performance of packaging. Plastic packaging material companies can refer to the following aspects for further improvement and enhancement:

One is to innovate and develop new plastic materials and processing technologies, making more high-performance plastics become packaging materials, and utilizing the high performance of new materials to achieve packaging material reduction;

The second is to promote the progress and development of plastic blending technology, new plastic additives, and application technology. On the premise of ensuring that plastic packaging materials are non-toxic, hygienic, and environmentally friendly, low-cost technology is used to improve the performance of plastic packaging materials, providing possibilities for reduction;

The third is to improve and enhance plastic recycling and processing technology, significantly increase the recycling rate of plastic packaging materials, improve and eliminate the hidden danger of "white pollution" caused by plastic packaging materials, and improve resource utilization efficiency;

The fourth is to develop bio based plastics, effectively regulate the degradation time and cycle of bio plastics, and reduce and eliminate the pollution and impact of plastic packaging materials on the ecological environment while fully utilizing the functions of bio plastic packaging materials;

The fifth is to reduce the cost of new materials and technologies for plastic packaging through independent research and technological innovation, and avoid the problem of many plastic materials that meet green packaging standards being unable to be widely used due to high costs;

The sixth is to develop advanced packaging technologies such as intelligence, utilizing the edible and water-soluble characteristics of some plastic packaging materials to reduce the generation of packaging waste and improve the safety and environmental performance of plastic packaging.

Although biodegradable biomaterials cannot completely replace petroleum based plastics, their application rate is increasing year by year with the encouragement of national policies and the promotion of enterprises; As packaging materials, especially food packaging materials, safety is the most basic principle that should be followed.