If you read the newspaper, watch the news, or browse any news media website or social media platform, you are probably already aware of the plastic waste crisis.

Our industry is responding to and deeply participating in unprecedented actions to help eliminate plastic waste in the environment and create a more circular economy for plastics. We agree that plastic waste is unacceptable, and when plastic packaging ends up in the marine environment or improperly deposited on land, its benefits may be forgotten.

The stakes are high. Plastics are vital to modern society and to solve key issues such as food waste. In the end, we believe that although these challenges are important, they can be resolved as long as the right commitments are made.

“Currently, about 70% of respondents believe that Food Packaging Bottle waste is a greater environmental problem than food waste, even though the opposite is true.”

The impact of food waste on the environment
The recent study "Food Packaging Sustainability: A Guide for Packaging Manufacturers, Food Processors, Retailers, Political Institutions and NGOs" illustrates why it is so important for us to focus on solving the challenge of ending plastic waste, while remembering why we First, plastic is used for food packaging.

According to the study, about 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions are related to food. One third of all food produced is lost. Avoiding food waste can reduce our overall carbon footprint by as much as 8%. Due to its protective function, packaging often helps reduce food waste. The study goes on to point out that the environmental benefits of avoiding waste are usually 5 to 10 times higher than the environmental costs of packaging. Product protection is particularly suitable for resource-intensive production of foods such as meat and cheese.

Lightweight plastic protects food and has less impact on the environment
Plastic packaging is the key to helping prevent food waste. Plastic packaging not only provides environmental benefits due to its lightweight properties, but also helps to extend shelf life due to innovative design.

The study "Compared with alternatives in the United States and Canada, the life cycle impact of plastic packaging: theoretical substitution analysis" found that replacing lightweight plastics with alternative, heavier materials in packaging applications can lead to energy use, water consumption and Solid waste, as well as increasing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), acidification, eutrophication and ozone depletion.

Research on the environmental costs of plastics and other materials goes further, studying the role of plastics in food storage, preservation and waste, even when comparing old plastic packaging forms with new innovations. For example, the researchers concluded that, compared with traditional plastic packaging, improved skin-on plastic packaging for beef tenderloin can reduce food waste by nearly half. According to the study, packaging waste was reduced from 34% to 18% per kilogram. The ruler can save $606 in environmental costs. A ton of beef tenderloin was sold.

"There is a simple and profound scientific explanation for why plastics perform so well. At the same cost and function, the barrier properties and other key properties of plastics are superior to other materials in terms of corrosion protection," Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics Global Said Jeff Worcester, director of sustainable development. "Compared with many other materials, plastic has a higher strength-to-weight ratio, so it has a greater load-bearing capacity for a given packaging weight. Compared with other materials, you can pack more products with fewer materials This reduces the use of materials and energy consumption throughout the supply, distribution and value chain."

In other words, the nature of plastic packaging makes them an important material to help achieve more comprehensive sustainability.

What are we doing to fight plastic waste
Our industry knows that as long as plastic waste exists in the environment, the benefits of plastic will be forgotten. This is why we are working hard to improve the environmental performance of plastics after use by increasing recycling and recycling, while supporting efforts to prevent garbage.

In 2018, U.S. plastic manufacturers set a goal to make all plastic packaging in the United States reusable, recyclable, or recyclable by 2030, and a goal to make all plastic packaging reusable, recyclable, or recyclable by 2040. Recyclers and other stakeholders-are critical to achieving these goals.

There is still a lot of work to be done to achieve our goals and eliminate plastic waste. But the combination of data, investment and recovery progress shows that making the best decision to help prevent food waste is not necessarily an environmental trade-off.

This is true for plastic packaging and the same attitude towards 100ml Plastic Spray Bottle . After all, for ordinary plastics, we all have to treat them equally and focus on environmental protection. ,