Green packaging design

Over the years, the understanding and practice of packaging design is based on market demand and merchandising, creative positioning of its design focus on commodities and the sales areas, it has been considered that the packaging is often more important than the built-in products,changing the packaging design means changing the product itself, rarely related to environmental issues throughout the design process. Since the 1990s, the environmental challenge forces people to respond appropriately in the process of packaging design, packaging companies and design companies have begun to implement the environmental thinking on the green packaging design. Meanwhile, consider the environment impact in the design, has became a hot topic of green packaging design research.

Green packaging design takes the packaging products as the organic elements of mankind survival, with the humans and the environment pollution-free, recyclable or renewable materials to design packaging products, the requirements from the market demand, design and development, production, transportation, sales and waste recycling cycle, and at every stage in the cycle of green packaging design, product and environment influence each other. It also stressed that human beings follow the premise of the laws of ecology and social aesthetic rules, the use of scientific strategy, means make man-made items to meet the human and natural features, it's not only brought people short visual shock, but long-lasting material and spiritual enjoyment . The green packaging design involved include the following aspects:

1. The green packaging design will be committed to the implementation of the Environmental Protection Strategy, the establishment of new methods and tools to regulate the impact of packaging products in every stage of its cycle on the environment:

① Establish packaging product design and environmental protection related design specification;

② Effective monitoring and follow-up analysis on the packaging products while the input and output logistics process;

③ Establish environmental assessment model to conduct a risk assessment of the design, production and behavior.

2. Research and development on human health, environmental protection, useful packaging materials and production processes. We should take adequate market research and technical analysis of the requirements of packaging products at the design stage, such as product in the production, use, waste recycling reproduction process on human health, damage scope and extent, adopt design measures to control and eliminate sources of pollution.

3. The green packaging design from the packaging product cycle to determine the target. Green Packaging Design is not just an artistic discipline, but also an engineering discipline, and therefore strengthen the idea of packaging engineering, from the perspective of the overall system cycle conception design, once packaging products demonstration program confirmed the organic cycle of the entire product impact on the environment is irreversible. Therefore, we must consider the stage of production, transportation, recycling-related environmental protection measures during the design process.

① In design stage, fully grasp of the market survey, material information of green packaging design, which mainly include: conception and idea, to determine the design parameters, such as volume and measurement values ​​of the packaging goods, preparatory capacity or allowable deviation parameters; choice of packaging materials harmless and non-toxic, recyclable and renewable, biodegradable, high-performance composite materials and native natural selection of materials must take into account the relevant environmental factors. At the design stage is mainly to strengthen the entrance of green packaging design from the choice of materials and production follow-up procedures.

② In production stage is consider how to improve the manufacturing process, the current study results indicate that the environmental load per unit of measurement and the processing time is proportional, a successful design strategy is to how to shorten the process time.

③ In transport stage is to consider the properties of different commodities according to the hidden dangers of the destruction of the goods during transport, characteristics, uses and modes of transport, reduce the depletion of energy, taking into account how to reduce the environmental load of product packaging.

④ In Consumption stage, the main consideration to users is how to save energy, reduce pollution, ease of maintenance and to extend the life of the related packaging supplies.

⑤ In Recycle stage, we should consider how to facilitate the recovery of packaging products, and through the structure, materials design, leave used packaging demolition and classification entrance. The second is to consider how packaging materials to facilitate recycling, because it is difficult to extract pure substances from the mixture, some mixture of substances can not be separated, so it must be considered rational allocation of the materials in green packaging design.