Environmental experts call: multi-channel control of pollution of tea packaging

Environmental experts call: multi-channel control of pollution of tea packaging
"Each year for the vacuum coating of plastic packaging tea at 60 million tons, according to the popular 7 g vacuum coating of plastic packaging, the requirements of these packages will reach 86 billion." The China Tea Marketing Association Experts in the interview, to provide such a set of data is raspberry.

Today, the use of vacuum coating plastic packaging tea, tea sales have become a major packaging. "Vacuum coating of plastic packaging, despite the excellent durability, sealing, and easy to carry, low cost and features, but not in the natural environment degradation. This is indeed cause lasting pollution on the environment." Expert says.

Vacuum-packed popular

Maliandao tea in Beijing city, the reporter saw a number of West Lake Longjing Need, Iron Goddess of Mercy, Biluochun, carton packaging is exquisite sandalwood, which is a yellow silk with gold foil printed with three beautiful little tin can, open the small iron cans, is 6 packets vacuum bags, vacuum there is also a small set with a transparent plastic bag filled with 7 grams of tea. In such a large packaging boxes, tea, weight is usually around 120 grams, while the weight of the package to 480 grams.

A tea dealer told reporters, because the tea leaves on the adsorption of a strong odor, so storage requirements are quite stringent tea. Using this vacuum coating plastic bags, you can store in a vacuum of tea, the quality is assured. Should be sent to the field before tea, fear most is the usual, and now this problem solved. In addition to help fresh shelf life, the easy to use pouch packaging is now popular for another reason. 500 grams of tea had to use a package, opened damp tea is easy to deterioration, is not the same, to open the packet of tea, keeping the rest in the refrigerator, or put in the body with several packages, with a split, is also convenience.

In this regard, China Tea Marketing Association expert told reporters: "At present, the reaction from the market, small vacuum coating of plastic packaging is indeed very popular with consumers." It is estimated that each year the market sold 100 000 tons of green tea, oolong tea, and 500,000 tons, most use the vacuum coating of plastic packaging. In the package, to 7 g and 10 g of the most popular small package.

Serious pollution control difficult

In tea, the tea most often see is that people are torn into small plastic bags to the trash casual fling, did not care if it causes environmental pollution. But according to the China Tea Marketing Association estimates, only a tea this year, throw away the vacuum coating of plastic bags reached 86 billion. This package currently in use while the scope of the field has not only limited to tea. According to the environmental protection department of the person, such packaging has been widely used in mustard, cooked meat and snack food packaging. National day of such plastic bags thrown away hundreds of millions, simply can not be calculated.

In response, the State Environmental Protection Administration official said, such vacuum bags are made with non-degradable materials. Environmental awareness of consumers are now weak, the rest of the litter bags everywhere, not only cause visual pollution, more seriously, it will result in hundreds of years of pollution of land.

China Plastic Industry Association of experts told reporters that the vacuum coating packaging can be divided into two categories, one is aluminum packaging, one is plastic packaging. The former are mostly used in the field of medicine and moisture, dark demanding high-end products, the use of the relatively high cost; while the latter is widely used in tea and processed foods, low-tech, relatively low cost. At present the production of such bags most part a state of disorder, and many products are in the family's small workshop where produced.

In response to this situation, the environmentalists reluctantly said: "It is difficult to rely on administrative power to prohibit the current state only one-time snack and the use of white plastic bags be banned. As for the vacuum coating of plastic bags, the country also there is no single argument. "

Multi-channel packaging pollution reduction

Vacuum coating of plastic packaging for the flood situation, some environmental experts call for legislation as soon as possible to curb the vacuum coating of plastic packaging on the environment pollution caused by constraints due to the packaging waste growth to reduce environmental pollution, especially urban environment . "With taxes and other economic instruments should be packed pollution control." Meng Han Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher believes that "should enhance the environmental awareness among consumers, and strive to create a consumer initiative in the consumer part of the atmosphere of rejection of such packaging, but also timely introduction of economic regulation means, by collection of resources to protect the packaging business tax, high income, high spending on luxury consumption tax collection methods, from production and consumption are two links to start the same time, the spread of pollution control package. "