China News Service, Beijing, September 7 (Wang Xiwei, Liu Liang) In the daily life of consumers, excessive packaging of food and cosmetics can be described as a kind of "burden": it not only remains useless, it is a pity to discard it, but also easily creates resources. Waste and environmental pollution.
Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation of China issued a newly revised mandatory national standard for restricting excessive packaging of products for food and cosmetics, which will "reduce the burden" on the issue of excessive packaging.
In recent years, in order to pursue high profits, some food and cosmetics companies have designed and used packaging with too many layers, large voids, and high costs, adding packaging costs to consumers, resulting in waste of resources and environmental pollution. It also damages the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
When interpreting the new standards, Chen Hongjun, deputy director of the Standards and Technology Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, said that research shows that China's packaging waste accounts for about 30% to 40% of urban domestic waste, and most of these packaging wastes are excessive packaging. produced.
Chen Hongjun introduced that the new standard covers 31 categories of food and 16 categories of cosmetics, including tea, wine, cakes, and health foods.
The requirements for the number of packaging layers are strictly limited. Food and processed products should not exceed three-layer packaging, and other foods and cosmetics should not exceed four-layer packaging.
Chen Hongjun said that after the release of the new standard, food and cosmetics manufacturers need to design compliance with product packaging in accordance with the requirements of the new standard. At the same time, they need to absorb inventory packaging and products for sale, especially cosmetics with a relatively long shelf life. , The circulation link consumption cycle is relatively long.
In order to avoid affecting production and business activities and generating new waste, a two-year transition period has been set up on the basis of extensively soliciting opinions from relevant industrial departments, industry associations and enterprises.
Chen Hongjun stated that according to Article 25 of the Standardization Law, products and services that do not meet mandatory standards may not be produced, sold, imported or provided.
After the two-year transition period, food and cosmetics that do not meet the new standards are not allowed to be reproduced and sold on the market.
He called on enterprises to rectify and meet the standards as soon as possible during the transition period.
At the same time, consumers are also urged not to buy over-packaged products as much as possible, and to practice the concept of green and low-carbon consumption with their own actions.
Regarding how to distinguish "excessive packaging", Wei Hong, deputy director of the Standards and Technology Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation, said that consumers can generally judge whether a product is excessively packaged through "one look, two questions, and three calculations".
"One look" means to see whether the outer packaging of the product is luxurious packaging and whether the packaging materials are expensive materials; "second question" means to ask the number of packaging layers to determine the grain and its quality without opening the packaging. Whether the packaging of processed products exceeds three layers, and whether other types of food and cosmetics packaging exceed four layers; “three calculations” means measuring or estimating the volume of the outer packaging and comparing it with the maximum allowable outer packaging volume to see if Exceeded.
"As long as one of the above three aspects does not meet the requirements, it can be preliminarily determined as not meeting the standard requirements. From the perspective of environmental protection, we recommend that consumers avoid buying over-packaged products." Wei Hong said.
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