As we all know, the prosperity of any industry will promote the rapid development of other industries. The brutal growth of the e-commerce industry has driven the popularity of the logistics express industry, and the prosperity of the automobile industry has driven the demand for the oil industry. Similarly, the improvement of sales volume in the food industry will naturally make the food packaging industry progress together.
For food, packaging not only plays the role of a container, but also can guarantee the quality and prolong the sales period. In the past, glass packaging, metal packaging, paper packaging and plastic packaging were widely used in the food industry.
Because glass packaging and metal packaging are relatively expensive and bulky compared with plastic packaging and paper packaging, except for special food, most food adopts paper packaging or plastic packaging. However, in the future, the materials of food packaging may be more and more limited to paper packaging.
With the improvement of social and economic level and the deepening of civilization, the state and government pay more and more attention to environmental protection. In recent years, China has repeatedly issued environmental protection policies, and local governments have successively issued laws and regulations, which has greatly deepened the impression of environmental protection consciousness in people's mind, and people's requirements for environmental protection naturally rise.
According to the survey, the consumption of plastic in food packaging accounts for 1 / 4 of the total plastic production. In major shopping malls and supermarkets, food packaged with plastic can be found everywhere. The plastic packaging of puffed food and the plastic covering of instant noodles not only cause a waste of resources caused by excessive packaging, but also form a lot of white garbage.
The waste generated by such a large number of plastic packaging is immeasurable and difficult to decompose. Buried in the soil, it is difficult to rot, causing great harm to land resources and water resources. That is, the gas generated by fire will still pollute the air and damage people's health.
Therefore, at least in terms of high-end food, plastic packaging will be less and less used in the future, and paper packaging will be replaced. Compared with metal packaging, it is light and easy to process.
At the same time, compared with plastic packaging, paper packaging is easy to degrade and can be recycled, which has little impact on the environment. This occupies a great advantage under the gradual improvement of people's awareness of environmental protection and the rise of the concept of zero packaging, simple packaging and green packaging led by the packaging revolution in the global industry and economic system.
In addition, paper packaging is moving towards people's perspective of aesthetic improvement. More and more people find that the articles packaged with paper are not only fashionable and beautiful, but also reflect a kind of exquisite and generous characteristics. For example, the flowers in plastic packaging in the past have been wrapped in paper in traditional festivals such as Valentine's day or Tanabata Festival in recent years, which not only sets off the delicate and beautiful characteristics of flowers, but also reflects the sense of hierarchy of high-end atmosphere.
In the food industry, in addition to the fried foods, milk drinks and other foods originally packaged in paper, such as disposable lunch boxes, chocolate and other desserts are also gradually expanded to paper packaging. It can be predicted that in the near future, in the global environment calling for green packaging, the food packaging industry will usher in greater opportunities, and paper packaging will become the main trend of the food industry in the future.
There are opportunities, there will be challenges.
The change of food packaging will also bring some reform to enterprises. Industrial transformation, thinking transformation, method transformation and other issues will be gradually reflected in this wave of trend. How to find the blank spot of the industry, how to speed up technological innovation, how to enhance service improvement, and how to gain the upper hand in the industry are all challenges worth pondering.