approach was: to promote the use of "green flag" or
"renewable signs" in some plastic containers or
packaging, to tell consumers which can be regenerated to
use. These practices make the legal regulation of the
United States about green packaging achieve remarkable
1 result. A market survey of the United States display:
due to the impact of green packaging, people's
consumption habits have gradually changed. More and
more consumers want to use recycled paper board
packaging and hope the packing can be marked with the
symbol of recycled 100%.
Packaging industry improves continuously the green
program: At present, the packaging industry in the US
mainly uses two kinds of green programs: First, a 15%
annual reduction in consumption of raw materials;
Second, the utilization of packaging products for
recycling is at least 20%. Many states have passed
legislation to determine the recovery of packaging waste
fixed, and formulated any company can apply for tax
exemption as long as certain provisions of the recycling
packaging waste utilization. Through these regulations,
the United States in the recycling containers has made
remarkable achievements, the amount of carton
packaging recycling up to 4 million tons each year, and
they can be reused after being treated.
R&D of new environmentally friendly packaging
materials: Some companies and research institutions in
the U.S. develop and introduce continuously new
environmentally friendly packaging materials. For
example, scientists in the US have invented a low-cost,
environmentally friendly fast-food packaging materials,
and this material is made of wheat straw fiber and wheat
starch, this kind box can be completely degraded, and has
good insulation properties; Hewlett-Packard has
developed 12 type PC in the beginning of this century,
each of which has only 3 screws, and it is convenient and
easy to disassemble the computer to upgrade the
maintenance update