At the conference, Song Weizu, the founder of the Beijing Design Society, also introduced the concept of green design. For example, for the printing industry, green design on the factory floor can improve space utilization, save manpower, and meet environmental protection requirements; green design of cultural and creative products can not only guide consumers to green consumption, but also achieve material savings and creativity. He believes that to achieve green design, it is necessary to advocate new concepts, apply new technologies, and achieve sustainable production, focusing on the coordination of ecology, resources, technology, and demand.
Zhang Bin, Dean of the School of Design and Art, Beijing Institute of Graphic Design believes that an important aspect of the greening project in the printing industry is the development of disruptive technologies. It is necessary to reform and innovate the existing processes, equipment, raw materials, information acquisition, and control methods. In addition, we must strengthen basic research and theoretical research, strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, and carry out research on intelligent and digital technologies while developing green printing.
Ren Yucheng, an expert of the Beijing Printing Association, believes that just achieving product greening does not mean that the entire printing production process has achieved greening; the key to the green development of the printing industry is to start from the source, do a good job of the top-level design of the system, and realize the entire industry. Green chain seamless docking.
Innovative treatment of packaging pollution
In recent years, with the continuous improvement of national consumption capacity and the booming of e-commerce, China's consumer goods market has shown a sustained and rapid growth trend, which has also greatly promoted the rapid development of the packaging and printing industry.
On the one hand, customization, personalization, and differentiation have become important development characteristics of the packaging and printing industry. On the other hand, with the continuous upgrading of printing technology and the growing popularity of environmental protection concepts, intelligent printing and green printing will become an important direction for the development of the packaging printing industry in the future.
With the government, enterprises, and individuals attaching greater importance to environmental protection, green packaging and environmentally friendly packaging have gradually become an excellent opportunity for packaging and printing companies to achieve differentiated competition and sustainable development. Taking environmental protection express packaging that has attracted the most attention as an example, in order to solve the problem of packaging pollution, major e-commerce and express delivery companies are currently testing green packaging.
Green packaging cannot be separated from technological innovation and application. In terms of promoting the greening of packaging, postal companies have completed the distribution of green packaging boxes in 30 provinces and tried degradable packaging bags in Beijing and Henan. Cainiao Network and SF also developed bio-based material packaging bags and tapeless cartons. Jingdong promotes biodegradable packaging bags in the fresh food business; Best Express trials environmentally friendly bags in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, accounting for 30% of its plastic bag usage; Zhongtong Express cooperates with third parties to produce both oxidized and microbial Degradable green packaging bag; Shentong Express is preparing to put into use environmental protection document envelopes that can be reused 50 to 60 times, and cooperate with the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University to develop degradable plastic bags.