Along with the policy of government prohibiting plastic, brands adopt more renewable materials replacing of different kinds of plastic packaging. How this trend will affect paper and cardboard industry? Available cardboard output can meet the packaging requirements?
In the past two years, a mass of plastic wastes emerges from the water, which arouses extensive attention of the media.
Along with the policy of government prohibiting plastic, brands adopt more renewable materials replacing of different kinds of plastic packaging. How this trend will affect paper and cardboard industry? Available cardboard output can meet the packaging requirements?
Along with the growing predilection of consumers on renewable and environment-friendly material, paper and cardboard industry are evaluating how the anti-plastics affects the packaging of fabrics. Which kind packaging will transform from plastics to paper? Will the paper supply can meet the future demands? Will the paper industry be the mainstream?
1. Market driving force
The movement of reducing plastic packaging waste is driven by government supervision and consumers’ preference. These preference urges brand owner using recycled substitute goods replacing of plastics, and solve the plastic problems with the target of sustainable development.
2. Legislation factor
Response to environmental crisis, the government supervision of many countries is increasing, which helps to push revolution and reduce the influence of plastics.
Some single-use plastics (such as drinking straw, coffee stirrer, plastic bottles, dishes, plastic shopping bags) are intended to be the main resources of plastic pollution and it’s also the restricted target of many legislation. Although the PE shopping bags are prohibited in many places around the world, but European Union and England carrying out wider ban of the one-off plastics are in the forefront position.
3. Consumer’s driving force
The cognition of plastic wastes in environment has risen to a historical higher level of the public. In 2019, the society is more interest in the plastic wastes and pollution. The report in paper packaging consumption trend of 2018 also verified that.
64% people thought they preferred paper food packaging instead of plastics or foam plastics. 48% people tried to reduce using plastic products, such as straws, plastic cups and bags.
65% people expressed that the sustainable paper packaging has higher correlation with their life compared with the past 5 years.
Consumer research company predicts that the sustainability is one of the five trends in future packaging industry.
4. Brand owner and retailer
Packaging trend observation people expressed that the sustainable packaging trend will go on. Brand is making strict promise to deal with anti-plastics. Many famous consumer brands have promised to reduce the plastic content in the packaging. Different kinds of paper and cardboard packaging will be used in paper industry.
